I remember a clown school grad bytching about UFs SEC contract alone being more money than the entire athletic budgets of Clowntown, coCaines, and some other school, maybe USF. Since the SEC money is generally split equally (half of bowl included) probably every SEC team has that advantage. If VANDI wanted, they could afford any coach in the country.
ACC teams cannot. That's why.
7.5 mil could be just the beginning. Did you ever think you'd see small market baseball teams giving 30 year olds a 200 mil contract? (Thinking Votto and others here.) I didn't either. Who knows how far it could go? Gators aren't the only ones that think it's our time to get back on top and Bammer isn't going easily.