NIL needs and uncertainty slowing down the facilities arms race, one SEC AD shares

For a while there seemed to be nothing on the horizon to slow down the facilities arms race in college football.

Every off season there was a cycle of programs adding amenities that they once only dreamed of, leading to barber shops, recording studios, walk-in hot and cold tubs, and even waterfalls and giant slides making their way into facilities.

Much like has happened in cars, what started off as a luxury within a facility soon became a must-have stock option as programs raced to keep up in order to deliver a "wow factor" to players visiting campus.

With NIL firmly a part of the new landscape of college football, and the likelihood that a direct sharing model is on the horizon for college athletes, many programs are rethinking where a large chunk of money is going.

One of those programs is Ole Miss.

The previously planned renovations to Vaught-Hemingway stadium is "on the shelf right now," Carter shared on SportsTalk Mississippi.

"We obviously launched that campaign prior to NIL really becoming a thing, so as we saw where the landscape was going, we decided that is a huge project, probably close to $300 million by the time all is said and done to do that west side."

"We still have it. We know right where it is on the shelf, and we're going to come back to it someday. It's a project that we feel like is important, but we're just not in a place to do that right now until we know where college athletics landscape is going to land, eventually."

That news may be disappointing to some fans, but it certainly seems like a bonus for Lane Kiffin's "ComeToTheSip" and "TransferToTheSip" movements.