Quote Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg View Post
Lol, another perfect example. We are still exactly where we always have been money wise in the SEC. you gave an imperfect analogy. The upper echelon of the SEC are dabbling in Fomula One. We are buying 911s off the lot. In the old days they were buying 911s and we were buying base RX-7s.
The upper echelon has always been in the top ten in recruiting. When they got more money they didn't move up any in recruiting because they didn't have anywhere to move up to because they were already at the top. When we got more money we moved up 9 spots on average in recruiting, because we really really really needed the money. The SEC welfare money helped us a lot more than it did the people above us. I don't know why this is not sinking in for you. More money for them doesn't mean much of anything, because they don't have anywhere else to spend their money. There is only so much money to spend on facilities until you are just buying useless crap that has no bearing on where a kid is going to school. Those upper echelon schools are at that point. We are not, and every dollar we go up in budget helps us get closer, because they have reached the point of diminishing returns and we have not.