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Here's your host, Brandon Adams.

I begin today by welcoming you to our ecosystem.

Obviously, we talk a lot this time of year about the way in which rosters are put together, constructed.

And clearly, the number one driver towards how you make that happen in 2026 is with the NIL dollars you have,

which are able to raise, and importantly, how you choose to spend it.

And I think for a lot of Georgia fans, there is an intuition we have that Georgia,

while competitive with its overall budget and its per player compensation average,

Georgia does choose to do things just a little bit differently than some other programs do. And some of that really is a choice. Frankly, not all

of its choice. I don't know that Georgia has the choice available to it to spend as much as maybe

Texas spent this year to put its roster together.

Miami has historically spent to put its rosters together. Texas Tech, maybe Texas A&M, perhaps Oregon.

There are a handful of teams that I don't know, just being honest, that the choice is available to

Georgia to spend as much as they do. But in the realm of teams that are truly

legitimately competing for the national championship, we do know that Georgia from a compensation

standpoint, we have plenty of reason to believe, is quite competitive with a lot of those

other programs. And yet, while doing that still has, and a word that sometimes comes up with

this is judicious. They just have a little bit more of a judicious way of going about, you know,

where it chooses to allocate its dollars. Many of us sense that to be true. And there are plenty of

times in which we have it reinforced to us of just how true that is.

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