<p>Nice article hops_scout</p>
<p>Wow, go Vols! And Irish!</p>
<p>At least at those schools, they probably get their money back.</p>
<p>And, by recruiting nationally, they provide a better peer experience than schools where the majority of recruits are in-state.</p>
<p>It is not a claim, it is a fact. </p>
<p>Ha! All that and University of Alabama still had the number 1 recruiting class this past year (football).</p>
<p>U. of Notre Dame spent $1,758,300 and still didn't have a winning team last year! lol</p>
<p>UF winning all the basketball and Football championships is the reason why it's getting more prestigious and rejecting more students every year.</p>
<p>Since I have a good chance of making it there, it's a good thing for me.</p>
<p>I thought Ivy League schools are not allowed to give out athletic scholarships/recruitment incentives?</p>
<p>As this is an Olympic year, my D paid attention to which colleges had produced Olympians in her sport. Although she had already made a list of schools with top academics as well as top programs in her sport, she added several more to be considered as result of that research. No doubt there will be a significant applications increase this fall for schools with successful Olympians, due to free publicity!</p>
<p>kollegeyippee: They do not give out athletic scholarships, but I guarantee they offer a hugely competitive merit/financial aid package to their athletes depending on the sport/school. For example, when my son was offered by Yale, they made sure to let us know that his FA package would be as large as possible considering our income, etc. So, not exactly free for everyone, but definitely cheap enough to make it affordable for everyone.</p>
<p>AMom, while football was dreadful for ND, they had great success in many other sports. The figures include recruiting for all sports.</p>
<p>Kollege, the figures are for recruiting costs. That would include all kinds of expenses besides scholarships. Cost for coaches to travel & scout kids. Costs to bring kids to campus for official visits, etc.</p>
<p>Re: post 2.</p>
<p>Not a waste of money at all. In fact, a much better use of money than putting it in, say, a fine arts program.</p>
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<p>Placing body armor on here....</p>
<p>I'm not sure about other schools, but Athletic departments from schools like LSU are completely self-funded. The football money also goes to support all kinds of womens sports which are traditionally underfunded. There is TONS of money that schools make on sports too... this money probably isn't coming from academic budgets.</p>
<p>Reading this thread, while I surf for airfare to South Bend for the ND-Syracuse game Nov. 22nd. I say, recruiting money well spent.</p>
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<p>Strangely enough, no flames yet.</p>
<p>I'm tired of everyone always ragging on the athletes. Schools are more than paying for better athletic teams - they're in a sense advertising for the school and bettering its image. I'm sorry, but there's more to college than schoolwork and athletics is a good way to interact with classmates and other schools.</p>
<p>And seriously, look at how much schools take in each year or how much they pay in FA packages. $1,000,000 is not that much, especially for the Ivies.</p>
<p>"I thought Ivy League schools are not allowed to give out athletic scholarships/recruitment incentives?"</p>
<p>They definitely do. <a href="http://www.soccerbuzz.com/resultsfull_2008.asp?id=1199%5B/url%5D">http://www.soccerbuzz.com/resultsfull_2008.asp?id=1199</a></p>
<p>This girl told me she got into Princeton in September of 2007, well before the ED reply dates.</p>
<p>Receipt of a likely letter before the ED reply date is not an athletic scholarship nor is it a recruitment incentive of tangible value.</p>
<p>It should be noted (for the people that feel like this is a sorry state of affairs) that for at least some of the schools on the list, the athletic department budgets are entirely separate from the university budgets, and entirely self sufficient. In these cases, the universities themselves could shut down but the athletic departments would have little problem continuing operations.</p>
<p>Further, at every school, for every athletic department, the largest single cost in any budget is tuition payments for scholarship athletes to the school. Most often the athletic department is the single biggest source of a school's operating budget.</p>