http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/03/17/mens-basketball-recruiting-kansas-kentucky-louisville/24911927/
Kansas spends more money recruiting men's basketball players than any
other public school in Division I, about $2.1 million over a recent
five-year span. Louisville, at $2 million, and Kentucky, at just under
$2 million, are right behind. That makes sense. Each is a name-brand
powerhouse with national championships of recent vintage.
Auburn,
the next biggest spender at about $1.6 million, is a bit of a surprise.
The Tigers doubled their spending over five years without so much as
making the NCAA tournament field.
"It was a bad return on
investment," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs told USA TODAY Sports.
He said he authorized the increased spending - from $203,000 in 2008-09
to $465,000 in 2012-13, the most recent school year for which full
numbers are available - at the behest of then-coach Tony Barbee, hired
in 2010.
"It didn't work out," Jacobs said. "So I fired him."
LOL!
Kansas spends more money recruiting men's basketball players than any
other public school in Division I, about $2.1 million over a recent
five-year span. Louisville, at $2 million, and Kentucky, at just under
$2 million, are right behind. That makes sense. Each is a name-brand
powerhouse with national championships of recent vintage.
Auburn,
the next biggest spender at about $1.6 million, is a bit of a surprise.
The Tigers doubled their spending over five years without so much as
making the NCAA tournament field.
"It was a bad return on
investment," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs told USA TODAY Sports.
He said he authorized the increased spending - from $203,000 in 2008-09
to $465,000 in 2012-13, the most recent school year for which full
numbers are available - at the behest of then-coach Tony Barbee, hired
in 2010.
"It didn't work out," Jacobs said. "So I fired him."
LOL!
