NCAA Food Spending Restrictions

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A cursory Google search didn't turn up anything recent (there was some stuff from 7-8 years ago), but in a recent conversation with somebody in the GTAA, it was mentioned that the NCAA has recently uncapped the amount of money that schools can spend on food for student athletes. So that's another financial area that GTAA will have to figure out how to fund competitively, and another area of recruiting competition, I guess.

Anybody heard more about this?
 
Given the rising cost of food both at the grocery store and in restaurants, I can see the need for raising the limit. Not sure removing the ceiling completely is the best idea, but as long as it's for food only, I don't see an issue. At least now, no one has to steal crab legs...
 
Is this really a big deal either way?

Now that you can openly pay players and they go to the highest bidder, I'm not sure the amount of money spent on food really matters. Deck chairs on the titanic and all that...
 
GT98 said:
Is this really a big deal either way?

Now that you can openly pay players and they go to the highest bidder, I'm not sure the amount of money spent on food really matters. Deck chairs on the titanic and all that...
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Schools themselves still cannot openly pay players, and those further down the roster are important for depth yet are likely not making enough in NIL money to outweigh all other factors.

Facilities still make a difference, and food is essentially part of that.
 
GT98 said:
Is this really a big deal either way?

Now that you can openly pay players and they go to the highest bidder, I'm not sure the amount of money spent on food really matters. Deck chairs on the titanic and all that...
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Yeah, I think it’s a big deal. It’s a new front to fight on in the arms race of athletic department spending, when apparently everybody used to be capped. And it’s happening in a time when I assume money coming into the AA is flat or reduced because people are redirecting their funds to NIL (outside the control of the AA).

JRjr
 
Unlimited fish tacos. Ours are fresher than theirs?
 
Speaking of which, have any of you been to the Kennesaw State cafeteria before? It’s awesome. They have Italian, Mexican, Japanese, American, country cooking, and dessert areas to choose from. So many options.
It’s awesome. I’d have gained even more weight as a freshman had I attended KSU.
 
wesleyd21 said:
Speaking of which, have any of you been to the Kennesaw State cafeteria before? It’s awesome. They have Italian, Mexican, Japanese, American, country cooking, and dessert areas to choose from. So many options.
It’s awesome. I’d have gained even more weight as a freshman had I attended KSU.
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Bolton Dining Hall at UGAg is the same. Big ass building. You pay to go in and it is all you can eat once inside. Two floors. Everything from Chinese food to country cooking to burgers. It has a bakery, desserts, ice cream, milkshakes. I pretty much head there anytime I'm at the cesspool. I don't recommend going to the cesspool, but if you do have to go, I recommend Bolton Dining.
 
wesleyd21 said:
Speaking of which, have any of you been to the Kennesaw State cafeteria before? It’s awesome. They have Italian, Mexican, Japanese, American, country cooking, and dessert areas to choose from. So many options.
It’s awesome. I’d have gained even more weight as a freshman had I attended KSU.
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Sounds similar to the North Ave. dining hall at Tech, too.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
Yeah, I think it’s a big deal. It’s a new front to fight on in the arms race of athletic department spending, when apparently everybody used to be capped. And it’s happening in a time when I assume money coming into the AA is flat or reduced because people are redirecting their funds to NIL (outside the control of the AA).

JRjr
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Well, let's hope that GT has more than a pb&j budget since I'm sure the Top 5 will be rolling in catered meals. :lolfacepalm:
 
GT98 said:
Well, let's hope that GT has more than a pb&j budget since I'm sure the Top 5 will be rolling in catered meals. :lolfacepalm:
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JJacket said:
When food is unlimited, they can all be 330 lb guys.
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yes, as long as that is true.

We may have snuck in some Great Value greens beans and canned corn during our trip through the financial abyss.

I notice in restaurants I frequent that some have been going crappy on their ingredients to try to hold down prices.
 
I don't know how inclusive today's training tables are for college athletes (football players in particular, but
I can attest to what the training table was at UGA in 1969. A very good high school friend of mine signed
with UGA (UGH!!!) after graduating from our high school in 1968. Back then Freshman were not allowed
to bring cars to the campus then, so my friend call me and asked me if I would come and pick him up
at UGA, Labor Day weekend in 1969. I was really reluctant to pick him up because me being such the big GT
fan, I am, I was afraid some of those dimwits would key the hell out of my new Gold 1968 Buick Gran-Sport that was
decked out with GT stickers and a GT front-plate. I relinquished and asked another good friend of mine to
go with me who was also a huge GT fan, we figured between the two of us we could handle any of those
ass-holes who had anything to say about my car. Since my UGA friend was playing Freshman football,
he was given Labor Day weekend off. The next weekend the Varsity Dwags were playing the UT Vols
at Neyland Stadium on the new astro-turf that had been installed at Neyland Stadium.

We arrived at McWhorter Hall to pick our friend up, he asked if we wanted to take a tour of the football
facilities, we said yeah, we guess so! We walked over to the bowels of Stegman Coliseum, saw their weight
room and weight training facility and a strip of Astro-turf spread out on the floor, Bill (our friend) said the
coaches had spread the turf out so the players could get a feel for the new turf. Bill then asked us if we
were hungry, we said yea. So we walked back over to the player's dining hall. I realized then why the football
players of the day were so big. I have never in my lifetime seen a spread of food like they had for their player;
steaks, fried & baked chicken, roast beef, prime rib, BBQ ribs, fried & baked seafood, and every kind of vegetables
that you may imagine, all kinds of breads, the dessert display was the biggest I had ever seen, plus they had
several flavors of ice cream with any kind of toppings you wanted, and for those that didn't or couldn't eat big
meals there was a huge salad bar. I have never in my life seen so much food in my life in one setting! One other
thing about our experience, I happen to look across at another table and saw several UGA football players sitting
with an elderly gentleman with a bald head. I asked our friend, Bill; "is that Erk Ruselll sitting with the football players?
Billy said; "Yes, he eats every meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) with the football players!" I then asked what
about Coach Dooley? Bill said; "we (the players) never see Coach Dooley, 'the time we Dooley is on the practice field!"
 
I
oldgoldbee said:
I don't know how inclusive today's training tables are for college athletes (football players in particular, but
I can attest to what the training table was at UGA in 1969. A very good high school friend of mine signed
with UGA (UGH!!!) after graduating from our high school in 1968. Back then Freshman were not allowed
to bring cars to the campus then, so my friend call me and asked me if I would come and pick him up
at UGA, Labor Day weekend in 1969. I was really reluctant to pick him up because me being such the big GT
fan, I am, I was afraid some of those dimwits would key the hell out of my new Gold 1968 Buick Gran-Sport that was
decked out with GT stickers and a GT front-plate. I relinquished and asked another good friend of mine to
go with me who was also a huge GT fan, we figured between the two of us we could handle any of those
ass-holes who had anything to say about my car. Since my UGA friend was playing Freshman football,
he was given Labor Day weekend off. The next weekend the Varsity Dwags were playing the UT Vols
at Neyland Stadium on the new astro-turf that had been installed at Neyland Stadium.

We arrived at McWhorter Hall to pick our friend up, he asked if we wanted to take a tour of the football
facilities, we said yeah, we guess so! We walked over to the bowels of Stegman Coliseum, saw their weight
room and weight training facility and a strip of Astro-turf spread out on the floor, Bill (our friend) said the
coaches had spread the turf out so the players could get a feel for the new turf. Bill then asked us if we
were hungry, we said yea. So we walked back over to the player's dining hall. I realized then why the football
players of the day were so big. I have never in my lifetime seen a spread of food like they had for their player;
steaks, fried & baked chicken, roast beef, prime rib, BBQ ribs, fried & baked seafood, and every kind of vegetables
that you may imagine, all kinds of breads, the dessert display was the biggest I had ever seen, plus they had
several flavors of ice cream with any kind of toppings you wanted, and for those that didn't or couldn't eat big
meals there was a huge salad bar. I have never in my life seen so much food in my life in one setting! One other
thing about our experience, I happen to look across at another table and saw several UGA football players sitting
with an elderly gentleman with a bald head. I asked our friend, Bill; "is that Erk Ruselll sitting with the football players?
Billy said; "Yes, he eats every meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) with the football players!" I then asked what
about Coach Dooley? Bill said; "we (the players) never see Coach Dooley, 'the time we Dooley is on the practice field!"
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EXCUSE me the year was 1968 instead of 1969.
 
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