As Recruiting Costs Rise, Georgia Ponders Private Jet

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University of Georgia athletics officials are longing for the not-too-distant days when they had access to a private jet for recruiting travel.

As reported by the Athens Banner-Herald, Georgia’s football recruiting expenses were $3.7 million in fiscal year 2019, a jump or more than $1 million from fiscal year 2018 when the school already topped the nation in money spent. On Nov. 23 of that year, the Georgia Athletic Association sold its seven-seat King Air plane to Shepherd Aviation of Texas for $1.4 million. It had owned its own plane since 2006.

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