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The cost of college recruiting

MrTitleist

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This is astronomical. Want to run with Bama? HA! College recruiting is big business.. obviously the cost is worth it, as Alabama is the biggest fish in the pond and are reaping the benefits from it, however, how many schools can spend $900K just to recruit? Schools like Alabama, Texas, USC are in an echelon of schools far above their peers in the SEC/Big12/Pac12 (Vandy, MissSt, Washington St, Iowa State, etc), and definitely an echelon above Big East, Mountain West, CUSA, etc. At some point the Power 5 (or maybe 4 at some point) will break off, do their own thing, and everyone else will be left to fight it out, including the FCS at the bottom of the food chain (D2, D3 will be LOOOOOONG forgotten).

RT @jonsol Alabama spent $930,997 on football recruiting last year. It was $258,846 when Saban arrived. http://t.co/MgD3Vjwu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's the Tweet that turned me onto this link. Click the link, read it, it shows the recruiting budgets for the state of Alabama schools.
 
Gotta do what ya gotta do to compete with the best. And that is exactly what our coaches are doing this year, getting out of their comfort zone and getting players on a more nation wide basis.
 
MrTitleist said:
This is astronomical. Want to run with Bama? HA! College recruiting is big business.. obviously the cost is worth it, as Alabama is the biggest fish in the pond and are reaping the benefits from it, however, how many schools can spend $900K just to recruit? Schools like Alabama, Texas, USC are in an echelon of schools far above their peers in the SEC/Big12/Pac12 (Vandy, MissSt, Washington St, Iowa State, etc), and definitely an echelon above Big East, Mountain West, CUSA, etc. At some point the Power 5 (or maybe 4 at some point) will break off, do their own thing, and everyone else will be left to fight it out, including the FCS at the bottom of the food chain (D2, D3 will be LOOOOOONG forgotten).

RT @jonsol Alabama spent $930,997 on football recruiting last year. It was $258,846 when Saban arrived. http://t.co/MgD3Vjwu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's the Tweet that turned me onto this link. Click the link, read it, it shows the recruiting budgets for the state of Alabama schools.
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There will come a time when the NCAA adopts Financial Fair Play in a model similar to what the Europeans are implementing for soccer. The power institutions will remain the power institiutions, but it'll at least keep teams from spending themselves into oblivion.
 
Paytonlives said:
LDopa... Europe?? Sounds like Socialism to me...
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Hey, PL: Maybe you're kidding, but socialism has been in this country for over a century, if not longer. Witness the military/industrial complex for starters.

Anyway, if these top football schools (they're not really schools, but programs) price themselves out of the traditional college football environment, then it is time for them to be designated as semi-pro football clubs for the NFL. Let them go their own way and the rest of the colleges be traditional football programs.

Good riddance. Let's call a spade a spade. Let them be farm teams for the NFL. Let the NFL start putting its money into them. It's a waste of higher ed. resources to constantly have to mother these guys to pass courses even a HS sophomore could handle w/o help from anyone. Geez! :roll:
 
I read somewhere that the assistant coach who recruited Manti Teo to Notre Dame travelled from South Bend to Honolulu 25 times to do so. That seems like an a lot to me and I think there are no other Hawaiians on the roster so the expenditure related to one player.
 
FYI--- the European model of Financial Fair Play is really more like "forced capitalism" than socialism. The rule is that if a team runs a deficit over a rolling 3-year window, they get excluded from continental play (in this case, the Champions League or Europa League). Thus, if your books aren't balanced, you can't win a major championship.

There are 7-8 teams in Europe run by Russian gangsters or Middle Eastern oil barons that have no interest in making money, they just spend to buy whatever they can and run the club bankrupt. Machester City, Paris-St. Germain, Anzhi Makhachkala, Zenit St. Petersburg are all major examples. Chelsea and Inter Milan are right on the line.

The other major issue is teams like Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, who spend absurd amounts of money to gather the best players. When the deficits become to big to overcome, they appeal to the heartstrings of their local populations and get taxes levied to keep them in business. That will become illegal as well.
 
ESPU just aired an interesting clip on the Florida State recruiting efforts. FSU sent out 100,000 letters to prospects at a cost of $35,000.00. Just think how much that is going to go up now that the NCAA allows schools to assemble recruiting staffs, which will produce brochures, pamphlets, magazines, books, videos, etc...and send them out at will.
 
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