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Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4421173, member: 694"] Some data from the last year I could find (2020): Recruiting expenses: $339k; (for comparison $369k Men's Basketball, $319k Women's Basketball) Coaching salaries (including all assistants): $5.3M ($4.8M MBB, $4.0M WBB) Meals: $222k ($229k MBB; $135k WBB) These are a lot of the smaller items where UConn has traditionally spent for a full football roster like it does for the basketball rosters. I wouldn't be shocked that Mora may think there could be some additional investment there. -- To an extent the overall expenses of the football program are often overstated due to the $4.6M chargeback for scholarships to the players vs. $825k for the hoops program. This is further exacerbated by the rental fees for the stadium of $1M for the football program compared to 367k for basketball. If you take out the internal state chargebacks for Scholarships and Stadium rentals the $17.2M of expenses for football turns into an $11.6M expense (compare with $11.2M->$10.0M MBB; $8.2->$7.2M WBB) Obviously the school has a history (for obvious reasons) of doing a good job of devoting resourcing to the Basketball programs. Football with its lack of recent success has seen a much lower (per participant) level of funding for things like recruiting, assistants, even meals. Beefing those up may be necessary to have a program that can compete at a higher level. [/QUOTE]