How NCAA's unlimited food and snacks rule will affect what Syracuse provides athletes

[Orangeyes]

http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/201...fect_the_way_syracuse_feeds_its_athletes.html

 

[Full_Rebar]

I have a hard time believing a school would be spending $1,000-$3,000/month to feed a student, but I'm not a highly-paid athletic administrator who owes his job to the students who generate the revenue for my six-figure salary. Just open some kind of cafeteria/snack bar that provided all athletes with healthy snacks/drinks for pre and post practice. Major sports can use their budgets for meals as they see fit.

 

[Lawrinson14]

BS.

$2500+ per student athlete, per month is insane.

Hell, I eat a ton. And I only budget $300 per month on food. I mean, I could eat a fancy $75 meal for dinner every night, and not approach $25oo+.

 

[shandeezy7]

BS.

$2500+ per student athlete, per month is insane.

Hell, I eat a ton. And I only budget $300 per month on food. I mean, I could eat a fancy $75 meal for dinner every night, and not approach $25oo+.

True, but you aren't getting your food with ridiculous markups from third party dining service providers. Even still, that amount seems excessive.

 

[upperdeck]

the all you can eat buffet style vending most schools do only costs about $6-7 to make a profit or break even. $21 * 30 is $600 a month. The reality is it costs the school about $5 a meal to feed the kids. you could give every athlete unlimited food and not really create much of an uptick in costs..

 

[Trueblue25]

Khalil Mack doesn't even need 2500$ of food a month, and I've eaten with him.

 

[Hoov50]

When I was attending SU, I worked for Campus Delivery out of Goldstein. Basically students used the virtual money on their meal cards to have food delivered to them. I remember delivering food tons of times that was being paid for by a basketball or football player (it was their card and account) and delivering it to some cute coed not the player. The athletes had so much money on their cards that they couldn't possibly spend it all during the semester so they would give their account number out to numerous people. Part of the job was also checking the balance of cards before we delivered the food, essentially ensuring the card had enough of a balance to pay for the food. I remember the last week of the spring semester having someone call and order food using Billy Celuck's account and when I checked the balance it was over $3500 with a week left if the semester. It was very common for athletes to have over $3000 during the semester. My point is I don't understand how this rule changes things when most of the athletes I knew during my time at SU already seemed to have access to unlimited food money.

 

[Full_Rebar]

Full scholarship kids have access to that type of funding, and it would probably cost SU less money to just open an athletes-only cafeteria rather than pay the costs of full meal plans. As someone pointed out, it would be less than $10 per meal and SU could provide a healthier option than Sal's Birdland wings and wedges.

 

[OburgOrange]

Khalil Mack doesn't even need 2500$ of food a month, and I've eaten with him.

Did you get his autograph?

 

[Trueblue25]

Did you get his autograph?

No it was last year