Do teams get a return on recruiting costs: Tennessee = New York Yankees of the SEC?
– From 2005 through 2008, SEC schools combined to spend more than $17.1 million in the recruiting of football players. Because of open records laws the Mobile Press-Register was able to gain access to the recruiting costs and expenditures of 11 of the 12 SEC football programs. As a private school Vanderbilt was not subject to the open record laws and declined to share the information. Over the past three years, Tennessee spent a whopping 1.15 million annually on football recruiting. They spent more than twice as much as any other school in 2007. Here are the figures averaged from 2006, 2007 and 2008. Tennessee: $1,154,802 Auburn: $705,125 LSU: $662,772 Florida: $599,818 Georgia: $521,174 Arkansas: $499,578 Ole Miss: $410,608 Kentucky: $307,571 Mississippi State: $286,467 Alabama: $285,649 S. Carolina: $273,909 Vanderbilt: N/A Clearly Alabama is getting a pretty significant return on its investment winning 19 games at an average recruiting cost of $45,102 per win. During that same time
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