After that, how do you separate the promising mathematicians from the lazy and the crackpots?
This is the same problem that a "Manhattan Project" to cure cancer or what have you always runs into: It's easy to see where to get value from the first dollar, but the 30 billionth dollar likely costs more than a dollar just to figure out how to productively spend it!
"Fortunately", experimental particle physics doesn't have this problem, since you can always use that next dollar to build a bigger collider.