I pretty much agree with the thoughts othershave posted. CDV had to shop for a full roster, so unless he had an unlimited checkbook, he wasn't going to bring in an all-star team (and he hasn't). The story has yet to be written on how successful the combo of talent and coaching results.
I don't have any idea where we rank in spending. My guess is that we were well prepared for the adoption of NIL when it started, but many schools quickly passed us in spending. The shame is that we squandered our head start with a dud running the program.
This rebuild will likely take longer to achieve what we hope for than we (wishfully) believed. I stll shake my head at some of what we claimed 10 months ago (we could grab an elte coach, and with "our resources" be back near the top - because just look at what others (UK, UL, etc.) did.) Cig was "lightning in a bottle" - impossible to do twice (and we didn't).