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The cost of recruiting athletes has doubled at top Texas colleges
By Shannon Najmabadi and Daniel Levitt,
Texas Tribune
Private jets, chartered cars, visits to fancy restaurants.
College coaches in Texas and across the country are fanning out, like they do every spring, to high school football stadiums and basketball courts to recruit the most promising players to their teams. But over the past decade, the cost of doing that has mounted. At eight public schools in Texas that participate in the highest level of college sports, recruiting costs have increased 131...
