Colleges Spending the Most on Sports Recruiting

Athletics departments spent much more on recruiting athletes in 2007 than they did a decade earlier, with many NCAA Division I programs doubling or tripling their recruiting expenses. Here are the biggest spenders in each division, along with the programs' rank in the 2007-8 U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup, which measures athletics departments by division according to their overall sports success.

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