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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/fsukub on 2024-10-31 19:30:01+00:00.
Source: Football Bowl Subdivision | College Athletics Database
Below is the amount of money every public FBS school spent on recruiting for FY2023 (runs from July 1st, 2022 to June 30th, 2023), ranked. FY2024 typically won’t be out until January. These expenditures include:
-Recruiting (Spending on transportation, lodging, meals, and other personnel and administrative expenses relating to recruitment of prospective student-athletes.)
Some caveats:
-Private schools are not required by law to put out P&Ls, so we do not have access to how much private schools spend on recruiting.
Now, what you’ll notice is that 40th is not as high as we should be. The results speak for themselves. We finished 19th overall in the 2023 recruiting rankings. The top 10 in the recruiting rankings were Alabama (11th in spending), Georgia (1st in spending), Texas (4th in spending), Ohio State (12th in spending), Oklahoma (3rd in spending), LSU (8th in spending), Miami, USC, Oregon (22nd in spending), Tennessee (10th in spending).
In short, you need to spend money on recruiting in order (in general) to get good recruiting classes. It is pretty clear that Mike Norvell and crew are not dedicating the resources to spend on recruiting. How do we know? Because we’ve been higher in the spending rankings before!
Below this chart is year by year on where we rank in recruiting spending. You can literally spot when Mike Norvell was hired. You can also see that your recruiting ranking loosely follows your recruiting spending.
2014 - 22nd (4th ranked class)
2015 - 17th (3rd ranked class)
2016 - 22nd (3rd ranked class)
2017 - 2nd (6th ranked class)
2018 - 12th (11th ranked class)
2019 - 15th (18th ranked class)
2020 - 17th (22nd ranked class)
2021 - 47th (23rd ranked class)
2022 - 50th (20th ranked class)
2023 - 40th (19th ranked class)
TL;DR - It’s pretty clear that Mike and his staff has not been prioritizing recruiting. We have the resources at FSU to put more money to recruiting than schools like UConn or Indiana, so why aren’t we spending more on it? Obviously, the transfer portal has been working for Mike until this point, but hopefully he realizes that high school recruiting is more important to building a solid foundation.
| School | Recruiting | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia Bulldogs | $7,455,849 |
| 2 | Texas A&M Aggies | $6,344,866 |
| 3 | Oklahoma Sooners | $5,643,818 |
| 4 | Texas Longhorns | $4,902,436 |
| 5 | Clemson Tigers | $4,844,188 |
| 6 | Michigan Wolverines | $4,839,530 |
| 7 | Penn State Nittany Lions | $4,774,522 |
| 8 | LSU Tigers | $4,672,357 |
| 9 | Florida Gators | $4,563,927 |
| 10 | Tennessee Volunteers | $4,295,816 |
| 11 | Alabama Crimson Tide | $4,008,851 |
| 12 | Ohio State Buckeyes | $3,878,145 |
| 13 | Rutgers Scarlet Knights | $3,847,229 |
| 14 | Louisville Cardinals | $3,481,805 |
| 15 | Auburn Tigers | $3,406,848 |
| 16 | Kentucky Wildcats | $3,255,836 |
| 17 | Arkansas Razorbacks | $3,166,133 |
| 18 | Ole Miss Rebels | $3,156,948 |
| 19 | Arizona Wildcats | $3,125,343 |
| 20 | Michigan State Spartans | $3,049,373 |
| 21 | North Carolina Tar Heels | $3,032,020 |
| 22 | Oregon Ducks | $3,007,105 |
| 23 | California Golden Bears | $2,922,076 |
| 24 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | $2,909,156 |
| 25 | Minnesota Golden Gophers | $2,870,167 |
| 26 | Illinois Fighting Illini | $2,819,640 |
| 27 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | $2,811,581 |
| 28 | Missouri Tigers | $2,783,303 |
| 29 | Washington Huskies | $2,782,981 |
| 30 | South Carolina Gamecocks | $2,759,107 |
| 31 | Maryland Terrapins | $2,677,607 |
| 32 | Texas Tech Red Raiders | $2,620,632 |
| 33 | Virginia Cavaliers | $2,551,973 |
| 34 | Indiana Hoosiers | $2,506,957 |
| 35 | NC State Wolfpack | $2,498,577 |
| 36 | Kansas Jayhawks | $2,440,519 |
| 37 | Virginia Tech Hokies | $2,403,921 |
| 38 | UConn Huskies | $2,291,443 |
| 39 | Utah Utes | $2,273,775 |
| 40 | Florida State Seminoles | $2,255,200 |
| 41 | Iowa Hawkeyes | $2,240,883 |
| 42 | Wisconsin Badgers | $2,238,436 |
| 43 | Purdue Boilermakers | $2,233,531 |
| 44 | South Florida Bulls | $2,184,041 |
| 45 | Oregon State Beavers | $2,100,107 |
| 46 | West Virginia Mountaineers | $2,096,029 |
| 47 | UCLA Bruins | $2,086,373 |
| 48 | Army Black Knights | $1,995,028 |
| 49 | Washington State Cougars | $1,847,093 |
| 50 | Arizona State Sun Devils | $1,836,485 |
| 51 | Mississippi State Bulldogs | $1,823,145 |
| 52 | Cincinnati Bearcats | $1,754,108 |
| 53 | UNLV Rebels | $1,745,929 |
| 54 | Kansas State Wildcats | $1,689,120 |
| 55 | Air Force Falcons | $1,620,429 |
| 56 | Iowa State Cyclones | $1,595,762 |
| 57 | Oklahoma State Cowboys | $1,581,507 |
| 58 | Colorado Buffaloes | $1,574,033 |
| 59 | UCF Knights | $1,571,282 |
| 60 | Marshall Thundering Herd | $1,321,700 |
| 61 | Charlotte 49ers | $1,283,544 |
| 62 | Colorado State Rams | $1,218,487 |
| 63 | East Carolina Pirates | $1,131,201 |
| 64 | Memphis Tigers | $1,117,371 |
| 65 | Houston Cougars | $1,064,301 |
| 66 | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers | $1,052,151 |
| 67 | Wyoming Cowboys | $1,034,508 |
| 68 | Old Dominion Monarchs | $1,022,040 |
| 69 | San José State Spartans | $992,253 |
| 70 | Boise State Broncos | $966,361 |
| 71 | Utah State Aggies | $942,638 |
| 72 | UMass Minutemen | $940,196 |
| 73 | San Diego State Aztecs | $927,347 |
| 74 | Texas State Bobcats | $888,668 |
| 75 | Eastern Michigan Eagles | $878,901 |
| 76 | UAB Blazers | $873,249 |
| 77 | UTSA Roadrunners | $870,730 |
| 78 | Arkansas State Red Wolves | $846,637 |
| 79 | Nevada Wolf Pack | $837,729 |
| 80 | Miami (OH) RedHawks | $827,944 |
| 81 | Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors | $826,516 |
| 82 | Appalachian State Mountaineers | $810,803 |
| 83 | Buffalo Bulls | $803,422 |
| 84 | Western Kentucky Hilltoppers | $803,096 |
| 85 | New Mexico Lobos | $779,376 |
| 86 | Kent State Golden Flashes | $770,281 |
| 87 | Fresno State Bulldogs | $760,229 |
| 88 | Central Michigan Chippewas | $743,135 |
| 89 | Florida Atlantic Owls | $738,960 |
| 90 | Bowling Green Falcons | $729,074 |
| 91 | Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns | $718,708 |
| 92 | Louisiana Tech Bulldogs | $713,550 |
| 93 | South Alabama Jaguars | $703,892 |
| 94 | UTEP Miners | $680,604 |
| 95 | New Mexico State Aggies | $669,321 |
| 96 | Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders | $665,667 |
| 97 | Ohio Bobcats | $660,463 |
| 98 | North Texas Mean Green | $655,748 |
| 99 | Toledo Rockets | $651,543 |
| 100 | Georgia Southern Eagles | $638,379 |
| 101 | James Madison Dukes | $636,528 |
| 102 | Georgia State Panthers | $611,163 |
| 103 | Florida International Panthers | $564,890 |
| 104 | Jacksonville State Gamecocks | $559,534 |
| 105 | Troy Trojans | $548,230 |
| 106 | Western Michigan Broncos | $538,111 |
| 107 | Southern Miss Golden Eagles | $497,836 |
| 108 | Northern Illinois Huskies | $468,634 |
| 109 | Akron Zips | $407,278 |
| 110 | UL Monroe Warhawks | $400,677 |
| 111 | Ball State Cardinals | $376,241 |
| 112 | Sam Houston Bearkats | $330,797 |
| 113 | Kennesaw State Owls | $323,789 |