Let’s be honest. When you watched the movie “Blue Chips,” you thought it was just a movie, right. No way would that happen with, say, Florida football, right?
I mean, who would think a college would buy a tractor for a basketball recruit, or find shady ways around academic standards to get a player enrolled.
Well, in the last 10 years, we have learned it’s not far off from reality.
The college recruiting game is cutthroat. And now we learn, it’s expensive too.
USA Today recently put out a study examining how much money college football programs spend on recruiting.