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[QUOTE="Darwin, post: 4881014, member: 12534"]
$ drives collegiate sports and the $ is concentrated these days in the now P4 conferences due to Football, which funds all other sports except MBB. $ gets coaches and facilities. It also gets recruiting budgets. Outside of UConn, none of the BE WBB teams spend $ on the sport at a level needed to be highly competitive these days, because they don’t have access to the revenue of the P4 conferences. Follow the $.

The SEC and B1G now distribute over $50 million annually to each member school and those numbers are getting ready to skyrocket with new TV deals. The ACC pays out a little over $30 million and is considered “poor” in P4 standards, it’s why FSU is trying to break away. It’s also why UCLA, USC, UW and Oregon jumped to the B1G.

You ask why most BE teams cannot recruit top players, look at the revenue they receive from the BE annually, less than $6 million.  This isn’t going to get better for the BE, it’s going to get worse, and soon.
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