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Muskie
05-04-2015, 10:53 AM
Link (http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/03/louisvilles-rick-pitino-raises-separate-funds-for-charter-jet-use-in-recruiting/)

But this number — and Pitino raising the money himself — is interesting because in a recent story inBloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/aramark-ceo-tops-u-s-executives-with-800-000-plane-tab-in-2014), they determined that the average annual cost of perks tied to airplane travel for executives is $272,180 per year. Airplane travel for CEOs increased 22 percent this year, according to the Bloomberg Pay Index.
Seeing that Pitino’s yearly charter jet travel comes close to that average amount, it means major college basketball coaches are on-par with many high-ranking CEOs when it comes to a private charter jet budget.

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Thought the Louisville Journal Courier article was very interesting from a generalized recruiting perspective.

Cheesehead
05-05-2015, 12:37 PM
it's crazy how much money is spent in the name of college sports

LA Muskie
05-05-2015, 01:08 PM
it's crazy how much money is spent in the name of college sports
And it absolutely PALES in comparison to college football.

STL_XUfan
05-05-2015, 02:15 PM
And it absolutely PALES in comparison to college football.

Gary Pinkel rents a black an gold helicopter once a year to visit all of his local recruits. He just has the pilot land the thing on the practice field and wanders over to the game.

GoMuskies
05-05-2015, 02:18 PM
That's nothing. Snipe used to rent a plane to fly over UC football games.

X-band '01
05-05-2015, 03:02 PM
That's nothing. Snipe used to rent a plane to fly over UC football games.

It's too bad that Snipe (UC football fan that he is) isn't a coach for UC, though.

paulxu
05-05-2015, 04:30 PM
His next escapade might be a flight over Dayton asking about their strength coach.