Everything is bigger in Texas, including the recruiting red carpet.
On the weekend of June 17, Arch Manning and eight other recruits took visits to Austin. Through FOIA requests, The AthleticSome of the expenses included over $21,000 on travel, including airfare and car service; $46,696 on 34 hotel rooms for recruits and their families plus some Texas coaches and staffers; $17,319.71 on a lunch buffet plus $1,813.74 in additional desserts and snacks ; $3,359.12 to rent speakers to play music on the field .
Then there was $29,129.40 on a dinner buffet; $11,880 on a “social” between parents and coaches, which included an open bar; $10,226 on a breakfast buffet; $9,497.72 at TopGolf; $36,900 for dinner at the swanky III Forks Steakhouse; and $2,357.50 on a cruise on Lady Bird Lake. The $280,000 tab on this weekend was actually smaller than the expenditures for the weekend after, when Texas dropped $350,000 on a weekend for 14 potential recruits.Getty Images
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