Texas Longhorns see spending rival MLB team for their 2025 football roster
The creation of revenue sharing and NIL growth has caused college football roster expenses to explode. Now that athletes are getting a fair share of their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL, programs like the Texas Longhorns have become more like pro football teams. According to Kirk Bohls of the Houston Chronicle, the Longhorns' 2025 salary […]
The creation of revenue sharing and NIL growth has caused college football roster expenses to explode. Now that athletes are getting a fair share of their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL, programs like the Texas Longhorns have become more like pro football teams.
According to Kirk Bohls of the Houston Chronicle, the Longhorns' 2025 salary commitments are in the $35-40 million range. Texas added 10 players in the transfer portal, but the other factor for the big leap in spending is revenue sharing.
$20.5 million is expected to come from the new revenue-sharing model. Texas AD Chris Del Conte said payouts from the Texas One Fund are also higher than usual because the structuring of the money will be assigned will change on July 1.
Frontloading the payments now has given big programs with flush spending accounts more freedom to almost double-up on their offers.
With a figure near $40 million, Texas' 2025 roster will cost about as much as the Miami Marlins.
The NIL landscape continues to change, and every school will be looking to rid themselves of those collectives in favor of revenue sharing and privatized corporate investments will be an interesting one.
It was not revealed how many Texas players have at least a $1 million salary, but we can expect a good handful to be in that range.
