An Analysis of College Basketball Recruiting Costs

[TankedCat]

I don't normally start threads on here, and this may have been posted over the past 3 years. I stumbled across this article while researching college recruiting costs to justify some initiatives at my company.

Given its a historically slow time to talk basketball, I thought I'd post it.

Anyways, its from 2019, but Kentucky, not surprisingly spent more on college basketball recruiting that year than the football program did, with questionable results I would argue.

Who knew there was a athletic director website?

https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/an-analysis-of-college-basketball-recruiting-costs/

For reference, the $1.07 million that Kentucky spent on men’s basketball recruiting last year could fund roughly 13 years of recruiting for Wisconsin, based on the Badgers’ 2019 recruiting expenses of $81,503.

Our recruiting budget is at least twice as much as all but 8 Universities.

interesting read for those who like to ponder such things

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Are the numbers only available for public schools?

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Interesting stuff.

On a related note, my youngest daughter is being heavily recruited for D-1 beach volleyball, and yet we can hardly get schools to spring for an official visit! Lol

 

[BlueSince92]

Interesting stuff.

On a related note, my youngest daughter is being heavily recruited for D-1 beach volleyball, and yet we can hardly get schools to spring for an official visit! Lol

I will totally chauffeur her team around free of charge if that will help her make a decision.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

I don't normally start threads on here, and this may have been posted over the past 3 years. I stumbled across this article while researching college recruiting costs to justify some initiatives at my company.

Given its a historically slow time to talk basketball, I thought I'd post it.

Anyways, its from 2019, but Kentucky, not surprisingly spent more on college basketball recruiting that year than the football program did, with questionable results I would argue.

Who knew there was a athletic director website?

https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/an-analysis-of-college-basketball-recruiting-costs/

For reference, the $1.07 million that Kentucky spent on men’s basketball recruiting last year could fund roughly 13 years of recruiting for Wisconsin, based on the Badgers’ 2019 recruiting expenses of $81,503.

Our recruiting budget is at least twice as much as all but 8 Universities.

interesting read for those who like to ponder such things

We spent more on recruiting that season than Kansas, UNC, and UCLA combined.

 

[yoshukai]

We spent more on recruiting that season than Kansas, UNC, and UCLA combined.

Well…..at least “above the table “.

 

[BrickandMortar]

I don't normally start threads on here, and this may have been posted over the past 3 years. I stumbled across this article while researching college recruiting costs to justify some initiatives at my company.

Given its a historically slow time to talk basketball, I thought I'd post it.

Anyways, its from 2019, but Kentucky, not surprisingly spent more on college basketball recruiting that year than the football program did, with questionable results I would argue.

Who knew there was a athletic director website?

https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/an-analysis-of-college-basketball-recruiting-costs/

For reference, the $1.07 million that Kentucky spent on men’s basketball recruiting last year could fund roughly 13 years of recruiting for Wisconsin, based on the Badgers’ 2019 recruiting expenses of $81,503.

Our recruiting budget is at least twice as much as all but 8 Universities.

interesting read for those who like to ponder such things

Interesting post OP, we should try to find all the data for the Cal era and compare it to Kentucky years past and other top schools to see the trends. Would be really interesting.

 

[BrickandMortar]

I don't normally start threads on here, and this may have been posted over the past 3 years. I stumbled across this article while researching college recruiting costs to justify some initiatives at my company.

Given its a historically slow time to talk basketball, I thought I'd post it.

Anyways, its from 2019, but Kentucky, not surprisingly spent more on college basketball recruiting that year than the football program did, with questionable results I would argue.

Who knew there was a athletic director website?

https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/an-analysis-of-college-basketball-recruiting-costs/

For reference, the $1.07 million that Kentucky spent on men’s basketball recruiting last year could fund roughly 13 years of recruiting for Wisconsin, based on the Badgers’ 2019 recruiting expenses of $81,503.

Our recruiting budget is at least twice as much as all but 8 Universities.

interesting read for those who like to ponder such things

Here's a link to their financial report 2022, wonder if we could get a whole bunch of data into a google doc?
https://www.uky.edu/trustees/sites/www.uky.edu.trustees/files/2022 UK NCAA AUP Report FINAL.pdf