Rex Hudler Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Here is a really good article on football recruiting and its costs. Below is one excerpt, but the entire article is worth the read. The high price of recruiting Some examples from the 2003-04 football recruiting period, all of which would still be legal: • IU spent $61,177 on the use of private university planes for coaches' recruiting travel. That included a $3,762 trip by Curt Mallory, then an assistant coach, to Hays, Kan., where the plane waited while Mallory visited a recruit and then flew the coach back to Bloomington. • Purdue spent nearly $40,000 on independent businesses that produce regional scouting reports, recruiting news and video. The Boilermakers also spent more than $120,000 on coaches' recruiting travel. • After Purdue's season opener, recruits dined on a $62.95-per-person dinner buffet, featuring New York Strip steaks, jumbo shrimp and a dessert bar. They had started the day with a $19.95-per-person breakfast buffet. • On the weekend Reynaud visited IU, recruits received a police escort from off-duty officers, at a cost of $240, from a basketball game at Assembly Hall to Janko's Little Zagreb restaurant. They dined on steak, lobster and rib appetizers. The bill, which included parents, player hosts, coaches and coaches' wives: $3,436. Such expenditures are hardly unique to IU and Purdue. Through decades of changes in recruiting rules, one constant has been teams pushing the limit -- and sometimes going beyond -- to attract large, fast teenagers. "If you're Purdue and Indiana's doing it, and it's legal, you have to do it, too," said Randy Rodgers, a former recruiting coordinator at the universities of Illinois and Texas who runs the Rodgers Recruiting Report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palehosefan Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Good stuff. That doesn't even include the illegal payments that certain schools make for players. Here is an article that could cause trouble for Tenn or Bama in the future. There is a reason alot of people call the SEC (So? Everyone Cheats) He is charged in a racketeering indictment with paying $150,000 to former high school coach Lynn Lang to get Albert Means, a promising defensive lineman, to sign with Alabama in 2000. Lang was charged with shopping Means around to other schools besides Alabama, including Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida State and Michigan State. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctime...intstory.jsp&1c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Hudler Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Jan 30, 2005 -> 05:00 PM) Good stuff. That doesn't even include the illegal payments that certain schools make for players. Here is an article that could cause trouble for Tenn or Bama in the future. There is a reason alot of people call the SEC (So? Everyone Cheats) http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctime...intstory.jsp&1c That's old news palehose.... That is one of the infractions that put Alabama on their most recent probation. Believe it or not, Alabama has had three new coaches since that happened. It was a huge story a few years ago down here. Some Alabama people think Tennessee conspired to hurt Alabama's program and got away with things they were doing because they gave up info about Bama. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but there is still a lawsuit pending against the NCAA filed by an Alabama lawyer and on behalf of two Bama assistants who were named and have not been able to get jobs since. The NCAA sanctions did not specifically penalize either coach, but their names came out in the investigation that they knew what was going on and one of them even told the coach who to contact to get the money. It was really a sad case. The coach was offering (selling) to get his player to sign with whatever school gave him the most money, yet no money ever went to the player or his family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palehosefan Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Yep I brought it back up because the trial started 7 days ago for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Hudler Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Jan 30, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) Yep I brought it back up because the trial started 7 days ago for it. It's been a lead story on the news and in the paper almost daily. Between that one and Richard Scrushy's (HealthSouth) trial, everything around here is centered around the courtroom right now. That, and why Spencer Pennington quit football. Backup QB's are huge news here. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palehosefan Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 lol do they ever talk about Richard Hendrix? One of the top 5 basketball players in the nation that committed to Bama? Or are they talking about "that power forward that sure would look good at DE for Bama"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Hudler Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Jan 30, 2005 -> 09:39 PM) lol do they ever talk about Richard Hendrix? One of the top 5 basketball players in the nation that committed to Bama? Or are they talking about "that power forward that sure would look good at DE for Bama"? lol I hear about him a little.... He played in a game here in Bham on MLK Jr. Day and I almost went. They held a HS triple header at UAB Arena. I hear he is very good. Haven't heard of any movement to get him to change over to football........ yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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