(03-16-2021 08:16 AM)cidbearit Wrote: (03-15-2021 07:14 PM)emu steve Wrote: https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...-for-good/
It will be nice having recruits and coaches actually able to sit down with each other. A large part of the experience for recruits is factoring in the feel you get from an institution when you make your visits, official and unofficial.
I do wonder though how much money programs have saved over the last year with the reduction in travel expenses. Yes, revenue is down, but a year of no-travel for the coaches has to represent some significant cost savings for the bottom line.
You bring up a good point.
The athletics department finances probably require multiple CPAs to figure out.
Take both the receipts (income) and expenditures which were projected and probably neither are worth the paper they are written on after a fiscal year which was completely impossible to project (on July 1 who knew what FB and basketball schedules and income/expenses would be like????).
I'd guess both income and expenses are both down significantly. E.g., recruiting expenses, as you indicate, is probably miniscule. Travel to away games - minimal. Income from road games - zero (no non-conference games), etc. etc.
As you indicate, the best way for a recruit to make a decision is to get on campus and feel it. If I were a 17 year old, I'd get my dad (for the non-sponsored part of the visit), and park the car at the student union and start seeing buildings, e.g., student union, rec-IM, library, upper class housing (The Villages), health center, maybe a few academic buildings, esp. if I were interested in tech or a life science.
Then go see the athletic facilities.
And then drive thru Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor.