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Texas Tech Thursday Morning Notes - We Want Him To Be Our Coach Edition
Double-T Nation — ... In light of the budget shortfalls, this is something that we may have to take a much closer look at, but the Chronicle of Higher Education released how much schools spend on recruiting (hat-tip to Fanblogs and Da Wiz). One of the more interesting things is that Texas Tech spent $883,700 on recruiting in 2006-2007 and 40% of that figure went to women's athletics ($350,100), which is second only to Penn State. ...

Duke: Not a Bastion of Cost-Effectiveness
Carolina March — Fanblogs directed me to this Chronicle of Education report - read it quick before you have to pay for it - on the recruitment budgets of various universities in 2006-07. UNC doesn't make the Top 20 on the most profligate list despite that being Butch Davis' overachieving first recruiting class and Roy Williams' spending the year laying the groundwork for the upcoming seasons. I'm perfectly happy with that; the Heels bring in good athletes without breaking the athletic department budget. That's not the interesting thing though. The surprising name ...