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The care and feeding of a major college football program is an expensive proposition.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Michigan spends $500,000 as a starting point to feed the Wolverines each year.
Michigan regents are informed of all expenditures more than $10,000 that were not bid out.
One of those for the final quarter of the 2016 fiscal year was a $500,000 grocery bill from Midwest grocery giant Meijer specifically for the football program.
The Free Press reports that the Michigan football program is transitioning from some of its training table meals at Schembechler Hall to a debit card system. Part of the intent is to give the players more flexibility in terms of their meals on certain days.
The $500,000 total is a yearly total for all of the players in the program, but isn’t the entire food budget for the program. Which players receive the cards and when (scholarship and walk-ons) receive them depends on the compliance rules procedures.
This also is separate from the athletic department “fueling stations,” which are snack stations scattered around the Michigan campus for athletes and their snacking apart from their regular meals.
It’s an expensive proposition that is just one cost of maintaining a nationally-recognized program.
Tgriffin@express-news.net
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