There's a great book on this topic worth reading if you're interested. Whitford's book focuses on what SMU did in a vacuum, but Blewett's book looks at what is happening around SMU, compares penalties for similar infections between UT/A&M and everyone else in the conference, connections between UT and the NCAA, etc.
Death and taxes are the only guarantees
Success in athletes is directly tied to the money invested
The more spend, the more likely of a winning program
Sure money will be wasted at any athletic program, but the cure for that is the hiring of competent people to manage the funds not just decide to not compete.
The major programs have to search for ways to wisely spend money, that is not true for the rest of the unfortunate including all the designated G league teams
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