{"id":931995,"date":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/931995\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","slug":"clemson-spending-upwards-of-30-million-on-its-football-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/931995\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson spending upwards of $30 million on its football roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Exactly how much schools are spending remains one of the sport\u2019s best-kept secrets. Multiple industry estimates have suggested elite programs could spend well north of $25 million annually on football rosters under the new revenue-sharing model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">TigerNet has heard Clemson\u2019s total football roster investment could approach $30 million this season if certain incentive clauses built into player agreements are reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThat level of investment needs to be top 15 in the country,\u201d Neff said. \u201cThat\u2019s where our sense is that it is. Exactly what that looks like or how it\u2019s allocated is hard to tell because it\u2019s gray nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exactly how much schools are spending remains one of the sport\u2019s best-kept secrets. Multiple industry estimates have suggested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27027,7,47422,49,48],"class_list":["post-931995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football-news","tag-football","tag-nc-state-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116833690812120392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}