Rockne's Roundtable

Interesting article I came across this morning that compares the football recruiting budget to its class rank from last year. Surprisingly there isn't a very strong correlation between shelling out a lot of money and landing a top recruiting class.

For example, Florida St. had a top three recruiting class last year while despite coming in No. 25 on the list of most money spent for football recruiting among public schools. Tennessee, on the other hand, spent the most money (over $1 million) and didn't crack the top 10 in the recruiting rankings last year.

Notre Dame is a private school so doesn't have to report specific football recruiting budget, but they do report overall recruiting expenses for men's sports at $1,612,608. After looking at a bunch of other schools it seems like most programs use about 60 percent of their budget on football and 40% on the rest of its sports. So that would mean the Irish spend a little north of $900,000 on football recruiting if they follow the same trend. That puts them in the top five of big spenders. That makes sense when you think about flights and hotels, since Notre Dame recruits much more nationally than most other programs.

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