Army and Navy have impressive parades, but coast-to-coast impact of their game requires the recruiting advantage provided by a world war, or at least a good police action.

"So they started to become a conduit for really bright women, which gave us a recruiting advantage."

Does the Bollettieri connection provide I.M.G. with an unfair recruiting advantage?

Besides, they add, private offices proved a recruiting advantage during Silicon Valley's earlier boom in the late 1980's.

But O'Fallon said the meal money gave Washington an unfair recruiting advantage, which would ultimately translate to an advantage on the field.

"I do think there's some recruiting advantage to it, definitely," said Izzo, one of the few coaches to comment on it.

It's one of the few recruiting advantages we have.

On the other hand, he can stay at U.S.C., keep control of the program and continue to enjoy an obvious recruiting advantage.

Whatever recruiting advantage they had was short-lived.

Illinois claimed that their date change was not intended to give it a recruiting advantage in terms of scheduling conflicts.