Recruiting Budgets - Tennessee No. 1

[Muleriders]

SEC schools represent six of the top 10 largest recruiting budgets for the 2010-11 school year with the Tennessee Vols being No. 1. Recruiting expenses for 100 Division I programs were evaluated showing the 12 schools of the SEC nearly all rank near the top in both men's and women's sports. Half of the conferences 12 members spent at least $ 1 million on recruiting male athletes for their schools. No other conference has more than 3 programs in the top 20.

Top 10 Total Recruiting Expenses

1. Tennessee..............2,296,023
2. Auburn...................2,117,645
3. Notre Dame............2,070,316
4. Alabama.................1,694,202
5. Georgia...................1,540,743
6. Florida....................1,501,899
7. Georgia Tech............1,489,599
8. Arkansas..................1,480,557
9. Michigan...................1,480,357
10.Texas.....................1,470,389

Others of note....

16. Oklahoma
19. Nebraska
21. Florida State
23. Ohio State
26. Penn State
36. UCLA
37. Southern Cal
42. Michigan State
44. LSU
47. Miami
50 Missouri

I'm working on a list of top school sports money generators. Will post those later.

[Seanie Mac]

That isn't just for football, just stating. Tenn recruits on a national level, and has one of the best all around sports programs in college, with Florida prob being the best of the big 3 (baseball, basketball, football)

The problem is most of these southern schools are in a bumble**** town that doesn't have airports for big planes, they have to private jet everywhere.

[JunkyardDog47]

Tennessee sure spends a lot of money for a terrible football recruiting program. Seanie, all of the Top 10 programs have airports in, or very close to their home cities.

[Classic Rock]

Did the info you looked at rank the amount of money that comes in from boosters?Would like to see that ,Thanks

[Muleriders]

CR, no information on boosters that I saw. All of your major schools have large booster clubs that raise a lot of money. Not sure where you would find that kind of information.

Junk, Tennessee spent around $1.9 million on men's recruiting and the rest on womens. I sure Pat Summit got her share.

Mac, the amounts listed above are for all men/women sports. Football and basketball made up the biggest part but no figures were given.

[Romanowski]

That pays for a lot of barbq.

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