The Hill is Steep...

[FurmanCock]

USA Today reporting:

The Bulldogs spent just over $4.5 million on football recruiting during the school's 2022 fiscal year, according to an NCAA financial report the athletics department provided Wednesday to the Athens Banner-Herald in response to an open-records request.

Texas A&M is No. 2 at $2.98 million and Tennessee is No. 3 at $2.92 million, followed by Texas at $2.44 million and Alabama at $2.32 million, according to documents obtained by the USA TODAY Network in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University.

Michigan, at $2.24 million (or less than half of Georgia's total), is the only other school to report having spent more than $1.85 million.

Georgia is spending 50% more than the second closest program on recruiting. My guess is that they are spending at least 250%-300% greater in recruiting budget than SC.

 

[FurmanCock]

The only data I can find quickly on SC recruiting budget was 2020 data about the 2019 season, and it was under $1 million at $930K. SC was one of only 4 SEC schools that were not in the national top 20 for recruiting budgets. And this is after Muschamp greatly expanded the schools recruiting staff.