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TexasTowelie

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Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:53 AM Sep 2020

Colleges are slashing athletic budgets. Is this football tradition still worth the cost?

The contract has 10 pages detailing how the Clemson football team is to be fed at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel the night before a game.

For $92.78 a person, players dine on steak, chicken, pasta and an array of sides. The hotel is told to put out light salad dressings but label them as regular.

These extravagances are a part of big-time college football, but it’s the location that may be surprising. Clemson, like virtually every other FBS team, pays for players and team personnel to stay in hotel rooms the night before home games, not just road contests.

Georgia Tech pays $800 each stay to rent a projector, $25 per extension cord and power strip, and $65 for an easel, paper and markers at the Westin in Atlanta.

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Colleges are slashing athletic budgets. Is this football tradition still worth the cost? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
THey make it hard to defend... Claire Oh Nette Sep 2020 #1

Claire Oh Nette

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1. THey make it hard to defend...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:27 AM
Sep 2020

Georgia Tech pays $800 for a projector? You'd think they have them on hand back on campus, and they could pay a student assistant to carry it over and set it up.

$100 per person for dinner??

WOnder why so many elite athletes feel entitled??

As much as I love college football, and I do, all college and high school and UAA sports should be canceled. I don't need to be entertained so much that I'd risk their lives. And, if the universities are just pissing money away, it would be ok for some programs to fold.

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