Wayne posted the following potential college athletic rule...
 
>(2) Elimination of all off-campus recruiting.
>   Athletic recruiting last year was estimated to cost $300 million.
 
Does anybody know about how many athletes were recruited, and the breakdown by
sport?  Also, what does athletic recruiting consist of?  Two extremes may be...
 
(1) recruiter watches athlete play and drops a flyer in his/her mailbox, and
 
(2) recruiter takes athlete and his/her family out to really expensive dinner
and a night at the opera, the way a business would woo a potential client.
 
Is this more extravagant in orangeball and lemonshapedball than in hockey?
 
Lastly, if this rule was put into effect and "policed," how would it hamper
schools with new programs, etc?  How would the ECAC, whose cities/areas are
generally not hockey hotbeds (thus lots of Canadian recruits, etc) really be
able to shape the sorts of teams they'd like?
 
posted for all you Friday Speculators,
Ross