Last year, West Point spent 32 percent of its $1.7 million recruiting budget to attract 86 black students for the 1,187-member class of 2000.

Well then, let's put them in the recruiting budget.

Problem is that would be more than the entire recruiting budget put together.

The recruiting budget was a minuscule $10,000 when Gail Goestenkors took over as coach in 1992.

Recruiting quotas have been filled easily with qualified people, except for two years when the Navy cut its recruiting budget.

He does not have much of a recruiting budget, he said, and news of the scholarship travels mainly by word of mouth.

To aid that effort, Butters increased the recruiting budget to a hefty $200,000 per year.

Haskins compensates for a slight recruiting budget with his experience in making his way around Brooklyn's talent gold mine.

We don't have an enormous recruiting budget.

For some schools, that will mean less guarantee games and larger recruiting budgets.