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So you have set your annual budget and paced your spending accordingly.

Suddenly, through circumstances beyond your control, new parameters are given.

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You are fine to see that budget out through the fiscal year. But this year’s spending total now might severely limit the money at your disposal next year and beyond.

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In essence, this is the conundrum facing college coaches as they close recruiting this cycle and proceed adding commitments for the 2022 class.

The December early signing period is now less than a month away, and there is still so much that schools do not know about how the math is to work out for the future.