Hmmmm......didn't know this about Vols recruiting.

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I also read somewhere that we spend quite a bit on recruiting services. Mainly obtaining tape.
 
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Can't believe Texas is even on the list, much less at #10. Mack just gets on the loud speaker and shouts out to all the recruits in his back yard and says, hurry up boys, first come, first served.
 
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VolPride14 said:
Well Nebraska and Oregon don't exactly land top signing classes either. You didn't prove a point. Oregon isn't far from California. Nebraska isn't far from Oklahoma, Texas, or Illinois.
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They haven't exactly won a NC either. Yeah they have good seasons, but they don't compete in the SeC. When they face decent SeC schools they get smacked. See Auburn and LsU past two yrs and UsCe in the bowl game for Nebraska. Proves the conference is on another level.
 
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WesternKyVol said:
Oklahoma is not a hotbed. Just as much talent in TN. Oregon is a long way from So Cal which pales in comparison to the SE United States. As Dooley said, we are within 300 miles of enough talent to win and win big.
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Oregon is probably about to get busted for recruiting violations. Oklahoma takes enough talent from Texas to make up for the lack of talent. I'm not only amazed what Dooley has done considering the state of the program, but by the fact that he appears to be doing it ethically.
 
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Lol. This thread is hilarious. We have people saying we're close to Virgina and North Carolina and Atlanta, so there should be no excuses. That's just dumb. Then we have people comparing the recruiting Majors did decades ago compared to what Dooley has to deal with now. That's just dumb. JMO IMO TBH TIFWIW.
 
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I'm not understanding some of the posters in this thread

for 1 you don't even know how much of this is football - Marquette was in the top there and they don't even have a football team to my knowledge

seems to me there are a few things that would drive this cost - if you have a competitive athletic program top to bottom where you try and compete in everything from football to men's polo then that will drive up costs b/c you have a budget for more sports

and 2 if you have to travel to get talent to come to your school then you will spend more than others

seems we fit both of those bills so it isnt surprising to see us toward the top

everyone is assuming that all of that is for football but in reality we don't know where we rank if we just looked at recruiting expenditures for football - my guess is we would still be high - but based on the OP's link we don't know that
 
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DeusExMachina said:
The 20 Schools That Spend The Most On Recruiting High School Athletes


Title of the article "These 20 schools spend the most money recruiting HS athletes". Vols at #1 ($1,878,771 for men's sports, $417,252 for women's sports, equals out to $2,296,023).


By jiminy, we're winning something in recruiting!!! :dance2::loco:
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we have been at the top of the heap in recruiting for years and years. maybe not #1 every year but up there.

travel costs. to go where we have to go to get recruits to compete is very costly..
 
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Adrian Foster / Jarod Mayo... both 3* recruits.

Recruiting (and luck in) recruiting is important, but equally important is coaching. Look at all the incredible talent Texas has landed over the last several years yet... they suck.
 
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OuterBanksVol said:
Adrian Foster / Jarod Mayo... both 3* recruits.

Recruiting (and luck in) recruiting is important, but equally important is coaching. Look at all the incredible talent Texas has landed over the last several years yet... they suck.
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sorry to nitpick but Mayo was a 4*, #11 LB in his class
 
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SIAP I don't think most of you are aware that the report shows total spending for all sports.

We compete at the highest level in all sports and it's tough to recruit because Tennessee does not produce enough top tier atheletes for any sport. Just look at the number of softball players from California. How much do you think that cost? Changing coaches does not help either. Think about how much it cost Cuonzo to recruit after Bruce had already spent most of the year recruiting.

In other words I am ok with spending the money
 
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getyopopcornready said:
This is because we have to go out of state and get so many freakin kids. That number won't be nearly as high with the next couple of classes. We'll finally have the luxury of having top talent in our own backyard.
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look at our '12 class....Hill, Lewis,Patterson and O'brien are the only kids not in the Southeast....ok 5 if you want to count McNeil from TX....so 75% of our kids are from the Southeast, and almost half that # are from TN and GA....thats staying pretty close to home to me.
 
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LWSVOL said:
we have been at the top of the heap in recruiting for years and years. maybe not #1 every year but up there.

travel costs. to go where we have to go to get recruits to compete is very costly..
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Yep. There are probably 20 threads already discussing this topic. Though few are as comical as this one.

I am not sure that we have not been number 1 in recruiting budget in a long, long time. At least since Phil was hired.
 
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Weak 10 said:
look at our '12 class....Hill, Lewis,Patterson and O'brien are the only kids not in the Southeast....ok 5 if you want to count McNeil from TX....so 75% of our kids are from the Southeast, and almost half that # are from TN and GA....thats staying pretty close to home to me.
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Your only counting the kids we got.
 
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Well he**, so if we doubled the budget and spent $4.4 million instead we could have had a top 10 class? Obviously this is all Hamilton's fault again! I am so glad we fired his cheap arse! Haha... Jk, but honestly this argument makes about as much sense as some of our posters in this thread.

If this is what we have to spend to put a competitive team on the field, than by all means. This is one area where it makes me happy to see that we are at the top of the list because it illustrates how committed our AD is to getting UT back where it belongs. It sucks that we need to spend more just to get quality players here, but I am all for doing whatever it takes short of cheating to right the ship. Vol football, and for that matter the rest of UT's athletics, is so important to so many people, the investment seems worth it to me.

Go Vols!
 
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WesternKyVol said:
Not following the logic, but 1-7 in the SEC and getting beaten by over 3 scores a game is surely a failure at UT no matter who is in the game.

Also, I don't want to fire Dooley now. That ship sailed in December, unfortunately.

For what it's worth, a guy on another site --used to be a very credible poster here, Cardinal Vol -- says that people in the AD told him that the reason Hart was quiet after the Ky loss is because he was reaching out to a certain candidate that turned us down. He would have made the move last year if he could have gotten his guy. Cardinal Vol also adds that the bar is set at 9 games for Dooley to keep his job next year. This seems very logical to me, and I support that plan.
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Who do you think you are BSing ? CDD's buyout insures he will be at UT for at least the term of his contract. So you fire DD idiots need to STFU. Insider my@$$. :shaking2:
 
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WesternKyVol said:
We are less than 4 hours a way from Atlanta, Ga which is probably the second biggest recruiting city in America besides Houston. Not buying this far away from HS talent crap. Tell that to Nebraska and Oregon.
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California and Texas for them. Just like Georgia and Florida for us. Not much difference.
 
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WesternKyVol said:
Johnny Majors brought in top 10 and better classes after just as bad a stretch. Everyone who has ever coached at UT has recruited well regardless of recent results
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We always have the largest recruiting budget. You act like this is new to Dooley. If you look at the last 25 years of NFL drafts we are the only school not in Florida in the top three with draft selections. We will always spend the money to bring in elite talent and have in the past.
 
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