It is my understanding that the AAC has adopted Cost Of Attendance. This is additional sums of money to athletes in addition to what they received before. This I believe will be a major factor in recruiting. Each school determines this amount and it varies school to school. In the Atlanta paper recently Georgia Tech Athletic Dept. was not happy when their school came up with $1700 a year for its Cost of Attendance. They felt it put them at a disadvantage when recruiting against Tennessee($5600) and Auburn($5500) I have seen nothing about what the AAC or Tulane is doing or their cost of attendance figures. This could hurt private schools since they want to keep this figure low. Also I wonder how Pell Grants will fit into this. Any thoughts or information would be appreciated.