Again, please. Here in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl teams, they eat scot free at Lawry's Prime Rib for publicity.
You might not like the NCAA and some minor sports such as womens field hockey may go lacking, but there is no way a basketball player at a 1-A school powerhouse goes hungry at night.
Lawry’s Prime Rib??? I have been there. That is some pretty fine grub.
They’re probably paying the NCAA so the athletes are considered part of the get for Lawry’s. Because you can’t compensate the athlete that way (just look at Ohio State). Which just shows the idiocy of the NCAA’s system, if they make the deal the kids get to eat free, if the kids make the deal wins get vacated and schools get banned from bowl consideration.
I wouldn’t say it happens all the time. But he is not even close to the first player I’ve heard talk about going hungry. When you’re a full time student AND a full time athlete AND not allowed to get freebies from the community running out of food is an easy thing to do.
Let me guess. You’ve never been to Storrs, CT. Right?
There’s NOTHING there. NOTHING. Beyond the UConn campus, I don’t think there’s even a traffic light.