How do you spend $280K on 8 17-18 year old football recruits without some of that money going towards hookers and/or drugs? Asking for the U of Louisville.
The financial games they play with fundraising in saying that money raised and spent by the athletic department for the athletic department is not money raised or spent by the university. It's ludicrous, and in fact, it's worse than that. Texas football spends millions every year in recruiting for football alone, and they're back a long ways from the leader, which I think was Alabama. There's an arms race going on in recruiting money, and so instead of bleeding donors dry to pay for actual university expenses pertaining to higher education, they're bleeding them for football, to accomplish what exactly? Almost all the money is going to football, so how does it benefit the university?
The financial games they play with fundraising in saying that money raised and spent by the athletic department for the athletic department is not money raised or spent by the university. It's ludicrous, and in fact, it's worse than that. Texas football spends millions every year in recruiting for football alone, and they're back a long ways from the leader, which I think was Alabama. There's an arms race going on in recruiting money, and so instead of bleeding donors dry to pay for actual university expenses pertaining to higher education, they're bleeding them for football, to accomplish what exactly? Almost all the money is going to football, so how does it benefit the university?
I don't want to sound like I'm defending this, because I'm not. The table scraps that don't go to football fund most of the rest of the athletic department so it does benefit the University.
The system is completely broken, but if they win two more games one year because of Arch and go to a slightly more prestigious bowl game, the recruiting trip paid for itself.
The money does not come from the university. It comes from fundraising by the athletic department.
The open bar was for the parents and other adults (coaches, team staff, etc.)
Kids are never allowed in establishments with bar in the name around adults. In restaurants, the bar is a separate part.
It seems illegal and in some ways anti -trust. Akron cannot pay $280,000 for a recruitment trip.
You’re a little late to the party on this. People have been talking about these exact issues regarding NIL. It was obviously before NIL started that it would just be an arms race. In the coming years there will probably be a separate football league. About 30-40 colleges that treat and pay players like professional athletes and each athlete will make millions. And the rest of the country will still be under the NCAA with small budgets. There’s already talks of a new super league guy and its own TV deal for the schools in the super league, completely outside of NCAA jurisdiction.
So first of all, I doubt very seriously if they actually spent $280,000 on seven or eight recruits to come in for the weekend. If they did, there have to be a pile of NCAA violations that go along with it. That being said, people need to step away from the concept that it’s a public university because the university of Texas athletic department is basically its own business. They give money back to the University the same way that the University of Michigan, Clemson and many others do the same.
Meh, you’re just mad that your trip was a motel 6 and breakfast in the campus union. Don’t be jelly.
Lol. My trip? I wasn't a recruit or good enough an athlete to be on any radar.
But I do recognize impropriety.
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So first of all, I doubt very seriously if they actually spent $280,000 on seven or eight recruits to come in for the weekend. If they did, there have to be a pile of NCAA violations that go along with it. That being said, people need to step away from the concept that it’s a public university because the university of Texas athletic department is basically its own business. They give money back to the University the same way that the University of Michigan, Clemson and many others do the same.
Well, UT publicly reported it so your doubt is wrong.
Don't know where you live or have visited. Some states allow parents to buy beer for minor children in a bar. Most states all parents to take minor children into a bar.