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ESPN survey: NCAA COA can be recruiting edge

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Varied cost of attendance an issue for college athletics

John Saunders explains why allowing schools to give athletes financial aid based on cost of attendance could give some schools an unfair advantage in recruiting.

  • Andy Katz, ESPN Senior Writer Close
    • Senior college basketball reporter.
    • Joined ESPN in 1999.
    • Graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
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The additional money men's basketball players will receive due to the newly NCAA-allowed cost of attendance will be a recruiting advantage as recruits begin to understand the wide range of money they could receive from different schools, according to more than 70 percent of the Division I men's basketball coaches who responded to an ESPN survey in August.