So top programs like Texas apparently now feel it's necessary to provide overnight accommodations for high school recruits and their families at The Four Seasons, and drop well north of $500k during just two recruiting weekends. I guess the tab for 5-star hotel rooms, full-spread room service, Top Golf, and professional photo shoots at the stadium can add up pretty quickly.
UT's recruiting spend for fiscal year 2019 was $1,275,368, which ranked only 13th nationally. Georgia led the way at $3,676,858.
I suppose with NIL and free agency (i.e. the transfer portal), this shouldn't be surprising, but it still makes my jaw drop. There's no way "lesser" programs, even within P5 conferences, can compete with those budgets and this extravagance. We're going to see the same teams in the expanded CFP year in and year out, with an outlier or two breaking through. Let's hope we're one of the outliers sometime in our lifetimes. It's all kind of discouraging - - and nuts.
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UT's recruiting spend for fiscal year 2019 was $1,275,368, which ranked only 13th nationally. Georgia led the way at $3,676,858.
I suppose with NIL and free agency (i.e. the transfer portal), this shouldn't be surprising, but it still makes my jaw drop. There's no way "lesser" programs, even within P5 conferences, can compete with those budgets and this extravagance. We're going to see the same teams in the expanded CFP year in and year out, with an outlier or two breaking through. Let's hope we're one of the outliers sometime in our lifetimes. It's all kind of discouraging - - and nuts.
Texas spent $280K on visit by Manning, 8 others
The Longhorns spent nearly $630,000 over two recruiting weekends in June, including almost $280,000 on the official visit by quarterback Arch Manning and eight other recruits that featured five-star accommodations and virtually all-you-can-eat fare.
