I missed where you said this. What you said was:
I'm not sure I'm working off the same data as you, but what I found online roughly matches up and is from the 2019 season. If this is it, you are SERIOUSLY downplaying the differences in financial support between CU and others, and to say budgets and spending "compare favorably" is an outright lie.
This says that in 2019, KU spent roughly $590K on recruiting and CU spent $160K. This is closer to a $430K difference, but the larger point is that Kansas has more than 3X the recruiting budget than CU (~370% spend). Arkansas spent $424K, which I agree is ~$250K different, but it's over a 2X difference.
One of the big pillars behind the "lack of institutional support" criticism directed at RG is that he lags behind peers in funding BB recruiting, even behind schools with smaller budgets. That link shows that CU in 2019 was DEAD LAST in the Pac12, which was DEAD LAST among P6 conferences in recruiting spend, behind even future MWC schools OSU and WSU.
I did find a comparison of OVERALL budgets that didn't give the recruiting breakout. You can minimize the budgetary differences all you want, but everyone here wants CU to make the tournament annually when 83 different institutions spent more on basketball last year- as a reminder, only 68 make the tournament.
So, no, spending and spending doesn't "compare favorably" with other schools.