NCAA FB recruiting budgets

It is obvious Alabama and Auburn have a lot of signing bonuses to pay raising their recruiting budget.

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Army spending similar to LSU - not great value there either

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In fairness, Army has to work a lot harder to find kids that are: (a) good football players, (b) academically acceptable into the academy, (c) willing to put up with the academy lifestyle, and (d) willing to commit several years of their life after college to military service. LSU really only has to worry about (a).

If you wanna talk about poor value, just look at Ole Miss spending virtually the same amount we are only to sign a bunch of regional JUCO kids and in-state non-qualifiers.

We probably don't want to see them...

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Its obvious that Bama is just buying victory in an amateur sport.
Not surprised because they are classy

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While may not be totally accurate

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This. Virtually every school shows a year-over-year increase in recruiting budget for 2010 & 2011, but we're supposed to believe the LSU budget went DOWN by 40%? Riiiight.

The Webels show to have spent nearly as much--how can that be?

I'm betting the 2011 LSU number is a typo--should probably be $502K vs. the $302K shown.

I find this hard to believe

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This. Virtually every school shows a year-over-year increase in recruiting budget for 2010 & 2011, but we're supposed to believe the LSU budget went DOWN by 40%? Riiiight.

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We focused much more in state in 2011 (only 7/23 from OOS) as opposed to 2010 (13/27 from OOS). That means a lot less money required to visit the kids and bring them in for official visits.

2011 was also the first class for Frank Wilson, whose organization greatly increased our efficiency in recruiting.

We also locked up more commitments earlier in the class of 2011, which means less money spent later.

Finally, the NCAA really cracked down on the use of recruiting agencies (Willie Lyles, e.g.) around the time the 2011 class was being heavily recruited, which probably decreased our budget some.

Of course there could be (and probably is) some fancy bookkeeping going on, but there are also some very logical, reasonable explanations why our budget could have gone down. And all these numbers were turned in and accepted by the NCAA, so they can't be completely fudged.

No Towson on the list? Guess they didn't want to brag...

Posts from beyond.

In numerical order for who spent the most if this report is accurate. LSU is almost sub 40th in the nation.

This is excluding teams who spent zero dollars in 2011 or did not reveal thier recruiting budget numbers, like USC...

School 2011
1 Tennessee --- $1,479,099
2 Alabama --- $980,882
3 Auburn --- $950,378
4 Georgia Tech --- $883,430
5 Arkansas --- $666,419
6 Georgia --- $623,224
7 Texas Tech --- $611,910
8 Florida --- $602,929
9 Oregon --- $590,683
10 North Carolina --- $580,200
11 Texas --- $577,976
12 Michigan --- $577,663
13 Illinois --- $545,363
14 Army --- $511,840
15 Mississippi --- $495,233
16 Memphis --- $493,204
17 Clemson --- $490,305
18 Nebraska --- $478,554
19 Colorado --- $470,355
20 Iowa State --- $448,777
21 Kansas --- $442,911
22 Washington --- $440,931
23 Florida State --- $433,236
24 Purdue --- $428,805
25 UCLA --- $412,535
26 Arizona --- $411,785
27 California --- $394,298
28 Michigan St. --- $383,448
29 Missouri --- $363,545
30 Kansas State --- $361,196
31 Oklahoma --- $356,414
32 Rutgers --- $350,261
33 Minnesota --- $348,609
34 Kentucky --- $336,035
35 Air Force --- $335,986
36 Ohio State --- $320,938
37 Iowa --- $307,226
38 Mississippi St. --- $306,469
39 LSU --- $302,882
40 Oregon State --- $298,631
41 UNLV --- $292,618
42 NC State --- $291,456
43 Utah --- $289,353
44 Virginia --- $276,806
45 Indiana --- $270,134
46 Maryland --- $266,958
47 UCF --- $265,312
48 Connecticut --- $263,302
49 Utah State --- $256,312
50 Marshall --- $253,486
51 Colorado St. --- $251,383
52 New Mexico --- $250,582
53 South Carolina --- $248,333
54 Virginia Tech --- $243,513
55 Miami (Ohio) --- $242,792
56 Texas A&M --- $240,619
57 Louisville --- $230,650
58 E. Michigan --- $230,141
59 Arizona State --- $229,464
60 Oklahoma St. --- $226,475
61 Wyoming --- $225,338
62 Cincinnati --- $210,124
63 Toledo --- $209,143
64 West Virginia --- $207,933
65 Wisconsin --- $204,181
66 MTSU --- $203,596
67 Washington State --- $202,172
68 Akron --- $186,725
69 Texas-El Paso --- $185,158
70 South Florida --- $184,280
71 FIU --- $183,748
72 Ohio --- $183,412
73 New Mexico State --- $175,544
74 Central Michigan --- $174,715
75 W. Kentucky --- $170,323
76 San Jose St. --- $169,644
77 W. Michigan --- $166,306
78 Houston --- $158,605
79 Southern Miss --- $157,227
80 Bowling Green --- $150,630
81 La. Tech --- $144,058
82 Idaho --- $142,575
83 SDSU --- $141,216
84 East Carolina --- $135,370
85 La.-Lafayette --- $132,922
86 UAB --- $132,112
87 Hawaii --- $132,068
88 Boise State --- $129,837
89 North Texas --- $126,064
90 Arkansas St. --- $123,086
91 NIU --- $121,815
92 FAU --- $111,456
93 Fresno State --- $99,629
94 Troy --- $87,330
95 Ball State --- $84,268
96 Nevada --- $80,317
97 Kent State --- $75,953
98 La.-Monroe --- $44,057
99 Buffalo --- N/A