In some cases, teams recruited athletes outside of Greece to fill their rosters.

At Amherst, for example, more than half of the 575 students who play varsity sports every year are recruited athletes.

Roughly two-thirds of the student bodies are not recruited athletes.

We recruit athletes who are very ambitious, so they're going to spend 30, 40 hours a week on their sport.

That year, he was charged with illegally recruiting athletes to play for his team.

Through a phone network and word of mouth from swimming alumni, the school is able to recruit good athletes who are great students.

He had a hard time recruiting athletes - especially black ones - because of the 14 players who had quit.

But he said the group had recruited athletes at each of the Pac-10 colleges.

On the player side, the federation still has much work to do in aggressively recruiting Hispanic and black athletes.

"It infuriates me that we're spending so much effort and time to recruit athletes," he said.