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Bowls smother college players with swag
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10:42 AM ET 12.15 | It's not all about the game in bowl season. It's also about the swag. The NCAA allows each of the 35 bowls a chance to offer players up to $550 in gifts. Some don't give a lot of other gifts and use most of the $550 for a gift suite where items are assigned a number and players pick items until they've reached a certain number. If the bowl offers a lot of other gifts, the amount a player can "spend" in the suite is less; either way the total value of the gifts for each player must not exceed $550. Some bowls don't bother with the suite. The Sun Bowl in El Paso, which is hosting USC and Georgia Tech, will be offering players a coin, a Timely watch, a Majestic fleece, a Top of the World cap and a Helen of Troy hair dryer. This year the Rose Bowl is offering a gift suite where players from Stanford and Wisconsin will "get to go shopping," Chapin said. Among the gifts they'll be choosing from in the suite are a recliner and a blender.
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They'd rather have the cash.
Deep Creek
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More Money Exchanges Hands Than That, Bros.
I Love LA
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And you guys think the players want to have a playoff.....
LOL
BackRoads
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For some of these kids it's their last football game ever. So load them up.
shiprock
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Hell no. They'd rather get something tangible every time they play a game. Set up "suites" for every game.
Deep Creek
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Hell yeah, They can do the same thing for each playoff game. Further your team advances, the more swag.
Jon Deaux
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and speaking of swag, each player should get a laptop. Maybe then, the ones that are dumbasses won't have to be stealing them all the time.
Jon Deaux
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At least the bowl games have started. Slowly.
shiprock
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Hell yeah. Think how much money can be stashed in a recliner!!
Jon Deaux
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A 9000th post "going for the quad" block.
Well played and timed 9000th post.
(grumble snort ****)
Jon Deaux
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Wonder what kinda swag they get at the Idaho Potato Salad Bowl
Swamp Dragon
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yes but they don't come with papers to be handed in for classes in them
Swamp Dragon
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I'm sure the boosters from the U would be happy to show the rest of CFB how it's done!
Jesus H Manziel
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A laurel. And hearty handshake!
Jesus H Manziel
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I know the girls refuse to wear those potato sacks anymore.
shiprock
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Be honest who gave up on Arizona in the 4th quarter? (raises hand)
shiprock
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Typical 12 PAC game!!! Exciting with no defense!!!! :-)
The Oldtimer
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LOL, about as much as the Compass, Mortgage Music City, Gator and Outback bowls!!!
The Oldtimer
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SEC Bowl's swag- not too shabby
"Gift suites are set up as private events in which game participants, and often bowl VIPs, are given an order form and allowed to select a gift, or gifts, up to a value that is predetermined by each specific bowl, not to exceed the NCAA limit of $550 per person."
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BackRoads
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