[82lsju]

In addition to the issue of the size of the dollars, the league disparities, the fairness in paying the student athletes — I am having difficulty figuring out how Georgia can spend over 3M in a year.

First, you might fly business class, stay in a nice hotel, rent a car, have a nice daily stipend. if you visit 100 recruits (to recruit 25 kids) you’d think that could average like $1,000 per trip. So how is Georgia spending 3.5M+? Even with camps — even if they chartered private jets (!!) I don’t see where all the money goes.

I can’t help wondering if there is money going to payments and/or is being pocketed. Spending $150,000 per commit on incidental travel expenses seems difficult.

going from Athens GA to any city not in a hub, flying on a private jet saves a lot of time.  Looking at here

https://www.jetcards.org/pricing

it looks like that would run ~$4K/hour for the cheapest option (I'll assume UGA gets a volume discount).

flying to see 100 recruits at an average 1.5 hours flight time each way would rack up $1.2m in flight cost just for coaches visiting players if they visit each one once, they probably visit a non trivial number more than once

of course you could really impress the players and their parents if you flew them in for official visits on private jets (which I would assume is not allowed by NCAA rules)......

[82lsju]

In addition to the issue of the size of the dollars, the league disparities, the fairness in paying the student athletes — I am having difficulty figuring out how Georgia can spend over 3M in a year.

First, you might fly business class, stay in a nice hotel, rent a car, have a nice daily stipend. if you visit 100 recruits (to recruit 25 kids) you’d think that could average like $1,000 per trip. So how is Georgia spending 3.5M+? Even with camps — even if they chartered private jets (!!) I don’t see where all the money goes.

I can’t help wondering if there is money going to payments and/or is being pocketed. Spending $150,000 per commit on incidental travel expenses seems difficult.

going from Athens GA to any city not in a hub, flying on a private jet saves a lot of time.  Looking at here

https://www.jetcards.org/pricing

it looks like that would run ~$4K/hour for the cheapest option (I'll assume UGA gets a volume discount).

flying to see 100 recruits at an average 1.5 hours flight time each way would rack up $1.2m in flight cost just for coaches visiting players if they visit each one once, they probably visit a non trivial number more than once

of course you could really impress the players and their parents if you flew them in for official visits on private jets (which I would assume is not allowed by NCAA rules)......