dollars are a big part of it. This data is outdated but here is what the PAC12 spent on basketball recruiting in 12-13 and a 5 year average 08-13 (except USC and Stanford, which don't report)
ASU: $148,881/$150,495
Arizona: $212,486/$184,909
Cal: $93,532/$109,818
Colorado: $90,342/$126,589
Oregon: $227,201/$200,191
Oregon State: $153,652/$148,473
UCLA: $200,641/$152,244
Utah: $210,144/$175,604
Washington:$158,867/$140,896
Washington State: $155,038/$131,238
from usa-today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...cruiting-kansas-kentucky-louisville/24911927/
Recruiting is the lifeblood of college sports and a USA TODAY Sports analysis of 214 public schools found a correlation between schools that spend big on recruiting and schools that had success making the NCAA tournament from 2010 to 2014. (The one-year lag accounts for the time it takes for recruiting classes to enter school.)
Among the eight schools that made the tournament all five years, the average five-year spending was $1.2 million and the average annual spending was $231,000. Among the 33 schools that made the tournament three or more times, the average five-year spending was $912,000 and the average annual spending was $182,000. Among the 181 schools that made the tournament two times or fewer, the average five-year spending was $384,000 and the average annual spending was $77,000. And among the 144 schools that did not make the tournament in any of the five years, the average five-year spending was $325,000 and the annual average spending was $65,000.
Kansas' recruiting spending is driven in part by the program's use of private aircraft, mostly university-owned. For example, according to data published earlier this month by the Lawrence Journal-World, KU's basketball program spent nearly $275,000 on private aircraft for recruiting during the 2013 fiscal year. That accounts for just more than half of the nearly $515,000 the school reported spending on men's basketball recruiting that year.
I think they meant to say the 5 year total was $912,000, but we come in at half that with the same/similar results. The number one thing that CU could do is hire a director of scouting. I don't know if that is a role shared by multiple people or a dual role, but having someone like coach Chev for the basketball program would be huge. Just coordinate the recruiting efforts to specific talent areas. They also need their own trainer or maybe a better trainer. I know they have Englehart, but he has more of a football training background. At some point in the future, a private airplane would go a long way and a lot of schools use charter flights to reduce the costs, or they have very wealthy donors with private jets that allow the school the use them for recruiting purposes. Other pipe dream stuff would be their own video team.
