Huskers Recruiting Budget

[Mavric]

For the 2015-16 year, Nebraska football has $1,000,049 budgeted for recruiting. A more detailed breakdown: $668,000 for evaluation periods — going to see prospects, making visits to schools, etc.; $220,984 on official and unofficial visits, when players come to see NU; and $111,065 on recruiting services.


“We spend it on the things that (the football staff) thinks will help them, at the end of the day, meet their vision and plans,” Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst said. “We’re very, very strategic and collaborative when we make budgets.”

Does Eichorst ever get requests he turns down? Yes. Across all sports. What would be an example of an unreasonable request?

“Use your imagination,” Eichorst said.

What would make a request unreasonable?

“If you have a vision and a plan, and you’re strategic with that and stick to that, you should want to approach recruiting a certain way,” Eichorst said. “If, mid-stream, you call an adjustment to that — you want to go right instead of left — you get outside your discipline and your approach. Within that, there can become some unreasonable requests. This is a business where it’s very visible and coaches are very competitive ... oftentimes a coach will see something someone else is doing and make that request thinking that might be what we’re all about. Depending on where you’re at, it may not be what you’re all about. You have to be disciplined with the plans you put in place.”

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[cm husker]

So many words, so little said. Mediocre attorneys at their best (aka worst).

Anyway, all the money in the world won't do much until the NCAA takes handcuffs off of remotely located programs like NU, for example by:

• allowing more contact between players and coaches, especially program initiated contact (subject to creation of a "no-contact" registry that players and family could use);
• allowing more and earlier paid visits (including paid guardian visits);
• allowing the use of private planes when reasonably necessary to get a kid to campus within the time frame restrictions arbitrarily imposed by the NCAA; and
• most importantly the removal of "signing day" (make offers and acceptances real).

 

[Saunders]

Anyway, all the money in the world won't do much until the NCAA takes handcuffs off of remotely located programs like NU, for example by:

• allowing more contact between players and coaches, especially program initiated contact (subject to creation of a "no-contact" registry that players and family could use);
• allowing more and earlier paid visits (including paid guardian visits);
• allowing the use of private planes when reasonably necessary to get a kid to campus within the time frame restrictions arbitrarily imposed by the NCAA; and
• most importantly the removal of "signing day" (make offers and acceptances real).

This so much. Unfortunately, there's little chance of this happening because it goes against what the SEC and ACC want.