mburtner17 posted:Is it legal / ethical for travel organizations to pay college coaches to come watch their games? It seems like this would be some type of NCAA violation for coaches of the school taking money. I know that many college coaches get paid to work camps, but this seems a lot different. Does anyone have any insight on this?
Coaching is a full time job and part of that job includes recruiting on the road.
I am not sure what particular division or conference you might be talking about but coaches get company credit cards for their expenses, gas, meals, hotels, car rental, leased car, tolls, etc. It's part of their benefit package.
If a full time college coach is accepting money from an organization to come watch players, that seems like a conflict of interest. D1 coaches will send their volunteer or student assistants for college camps, that's how they earn money. They are not allowed to recruit players.
There are definetly instances where coaches recruit and offer players from certain organizations and there is nothing wrong with that, IMO.