Bowl Swag

[OrangeXtreme]

Since 2006, Sports Business Journal has tracked what gifts college football bowl committees have provided to the participants of their respective games. Over the past few years, the majority of committees have opted to provide players with an opportunity to select items from a pop-up store, or gift suite, that is set up on campus or in the bowl’s host city prior to the game. The NCAA allows the committees to provide each participant with gifts totaling a combined maximum value of $550.

Camping World Bowl
Dec. 28, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN)
West Virginia vs. Syracuse
Orlando (Camping World Stadium)

■ $400 Best Buy gift card; Ogio backpack with luggage tag; Fossil watch



Electronics rise to the top of bowl gifts this season

 

[Whitey23]

My favorite time of the year.

16 bowls giving out fossil watches!

 

[HoustonCuse]

So bizarre that its NCAA legal to do this considering their other dumb rules.

 

[Grabberorang]

$400 will buy you a decent 50 -55" tv now a days. Score.

 

[buffalorange]

I wonder what store is available to participants in the Dollar General bowl? You can get a lot of stuff for $400 at Dollar General!

 

[texascpa]

$400 will buy you a decent 50 -55" tv now a days. Score.

Expect 85 (plus walk-ons) Nintendo Switches to be bought.

 

[Ish88888]

So bizarre that its NCAA legal to do this considering their other dumb rules.

Yup, thats why the NCAA is a cess pool. Has been for 30 years and continues to be. I follow our beloved team despite this disgusting underbelly.

 

[Hoo's That]

So bizarre that its NCAA legal to do this considering their other dumb rules.

Because it goes to everyone on whichever team makes that particular bowl, not “we’ll only give something to X team if they make it.” I’m like 90% sure b-ball tournaments started this by giving out watches way, way back in the day. There’s just a lot more stuff and it’s more expensive. It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if there’s an upper limit set by the NCAA.

 

[OrangeMojo]

Because it goes to everyone on whichever team makes that particular bowl, not “we’ll only give something to X team if they make it.” I’m like 90% sure b-ball tournaments started this by giving out watches way, way back in the day. There’s just a lot more stuff and it’s more expensive. It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if there’s an upper limit set by the NCAA.

You mean like, oh I don’t know - $550?

 

[Hoo's That]

You mean like, oh I don’t know - $550?

Hey! That sounds like a good figure to use!

 

[HoustonCuse]

Because it goes to everyone on whichever team makes that particular bowl, not “we’ll only give something to X team if they make it.” I’m like 90% sure b-ball tournaments started this by giving out watches way, way back in the day. There’s just a lot more stuff and it’s more expensive. It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if there’s an upper limit set by the NCAA.

Unless every student on the campus gets the gifts, it is an impermissible benefit or so I have been taught by a few decades of NCAA persecution of Syracuse and other non-anointed programs.

 

[Hoo's That]

Unless every student on the campus gets the gifts, it is an impermissible benefit or so I have been taught by a few decades of NCAA persecution of Syracuse and other non-anointed programs.

No. It's a momento of participation specifically authorized by NCAA rules. B-ball holiday tournaments have been giving out watches since forever. Nuance can be a PITA sometimes.

 

[cuse309]

No. It's a momento of participation specifically authorized by NCAA rules. B-ball holiday tournaments have been giving out watches since forever. Nuance can be a PITA sometimes.

Right, but catch a ride back to your dorm from a donor, and it's lights out.

 

[Briancuse]

My favorite time of the year.

16 bowls giving out fossil watches!

Fossil watches is it 1996?

 

[tbonezone]

yeti cooler filled with gatorade ?

 

[Pyle]

Fossil watches is it 1996?

Right. I had to step back and try to figure out if they meant they watches are fossils at this point, or if there was an actual watch company called Fossil.