August is a nice period: some people on holiday, recovering from year-long efforts, and some other people working on articles about recruitment costs. It’s an interesting dichotomy that, at some level, will pervade this writing, too.
Everything starts from an interesting study made by watchstadium.com, in which the author analyzes the expenses of 51 schools (46 coming from P5 conferences. plus Boise State, Connecticut, Cincinnati, East Carolina, and Houston) in the recruitment field.
He obtained NCAA Financial Reports for these schools and isolated the data concerning expenses the various schools had while hosting potential student-athletes. This was intersected with the effective results of the schools into their competitive performances.