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This week, the Big Ten conference signed new media rights deals with Fox, CBS, and NBC that are worth more than $7 billion combined, marking the richest annual deal for any college sports league to date. Following that news, one media outlet decided to post a Tweet criticizing unpaid student-athletes for spending too much of their Big Ten athletic program’s money on food.

On Thursday, Front Office Sports sent a Tweet highlighting that Rutgers football players spent $450,000 on food orders paid by the university’s athletic program while it operated at a $73 million deficit.

“Rutgers Football players have expensed $450,000 worth of DoorDash orders to the university over the past two years, per @northjersey,” the Tweet read. “Athletes were permitted to do so during COVID quarantines. At the same time, Rutgers Athletics operated at a $73 million deficit.”

This Tweet was posted within 24 hours of news that Rutgers would be getting approximately $60 million a year from the Big Ten’s new media rights deals – an equal share with the other 15 programs in the conference despite generating the least revenue for the conference.

Naturally, this did not go over too well with the college football world, who blasted Front Office Sports for the poor and ultimately commentary.

While the Tweet itself wouldn’t have been great in any context, they could not have picked a worse time to share it.

[Front Office Sports]