Spurrier on current recruiting rules: 'They're excellent'
If South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier was in charge of the NCAA, what is one rule he’d change for recruiting?
Here’s what Spurrier had to say: “I think we have excellent rules in football. Basketball coaches are always say ‘You all are a lot smarter than us. We’re out there beating bushes year-round, it almost seems like.’
But our rules are set up fairly where you can almost have a normal family life through the summer for our assistant coaches. I don’t know. I think the rules all are pretty good.
One time, we were in there talking. Of course, some schools spend two or three million dollars on recruiting. I think we spend $250,000 or so.
We don’t to have spend as much money because we recruit the border states – Georgia, North Carolina, and our own state. I think we signed eight from our state this year.
We go a little bit in Florida, and a little bit up into the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas. So we don’t have to travel a whole bunch, so our budget is pretty small, I guess.
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