Colleges That Spend the Most on Recruiting Football Players

[OICU812]

Pretty interesting stuff, although it appears limited to state schools, I don't recall seeing any private schools in the rankings. Generally tracks with on-field results, with notable exceptions UT and Kansas vastly overspending based on their results, and tOSU surprisingly comes in at about 20th.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/colleges-spend-most-recruiting-football-130000771.html

 

[West Coast Johnny]

So the richest schools spend the most. Of course.

 

[Land Frog]

Pretty interesting stuff, although it appears limited to state schools, I don't recall seeing any private schools in the rankings. Generally tracks with on-field results, with notable exceptions UT and Kansas vastly overspending based on their results, and tOSU surprisingly comes in at about 20th.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/colleges-spend-most-recruiting-football-130000771.html

To your comment about tOSU, winning sells itself. Invest in Leadership. TCU has a lot to learn in this area.

Who Moved My Cheese? Patterson obviously has not read it.

 

[OICU812]

To your comment about tOSU, winning sells itself. Invest in Leadership. TCU has a lot to learn in this area.

Who Moved My Cheese? Patterson obviously has not read it.

Great book I agree Gary could do with some of those principles. And I agree success begets more success, and it's feeling these days like we missed our window to capitalize on our momentum from 10 years ago. Now it feels more like we need to reinvent ourselves yet again.

 

[CountryFrog]

To your comment about tOSU, winning sells itself. Invest in Leadership. TCU has a lot to learn in this area.

Who Moved My Cheese? Patterson obviously has not read it.

Certain logos very much sell themselves and Ohio St is one of those. I don't think winning actually plays nearly as much of a role in recruiting success as a lot of people think. It's obviously a factor but not much of one as evidenced by countless programs who haven't won anything meaningful in decades and still do great in recruiting.

 

[helcap]

Since it does not include booster spending these numbers have limited comparative value

 

[HG73]

Great book I agree Gary could do with some of those principles. And I agree success begets more success, and it's feeling these days like we missed our window to capitalize on our momentum from 10 years ago. Now it feels more like we need to reinvent ourselves yet again.

Uh, we got into the Big12, didn't we? $40m beats the hell out of >$1m, doesn't it? Playing our longtime local rivals...

 

[OICU812]

Uh, we got into the Big12, didn't we? $40m beats the hell out of >$1m, doesn't it? Playing our longtime local rivals...

If our goal was "Get into the B12 and be the 5th- or 6th-best team," then congrats we made it.

 

[BleedNPurple]

I’m thinking public universities have to release their numbers and private schools do not.

 

[BleedNPurple]

Man- a number of these schools didn’t get their $$ worth! Michigan one of the worst!

 

[OICU812]

Man- a number of these schools didn’t get their $$ worth! Michigan one of the worst!

The worst to me was Kansas. Think they were around 20th in spending, and I doubt they are even a top 100 team on the field. Maybe they spend disproportionately on paying basketball players.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Great book I agree Gary could do with some of those principles. And I agree success begets more success, and it's feeling these days like we missed our window to capitalize on our momentum from 10 years ago. Now it feels more like we need to reinvent ourselves yet again.

Ebb and Flow..Ebb and Flow...you'll hear a lot of that from Justin Cntr.

 

[BleedNPurple]

The worst to me was Kansas. Think they were around 20th in spending, and I doubt they are even a top 100 team on the field. Maybe they spend disproportionately on paying basketball players.

I agree - saw that! Amazing how many pathetic programs spent a fortune.

 

[HG73]

If our goal was "Get into the B12 and be the 5th- or 6th-best team," then congrats we made it.

Beats the Mountain West.

 

[steelfrog]

Is water wet?