PISCATAWAY -- Eighteen months after feeding student-athletes and cost of attendance stipends dominated the national conversation in college sports, the first bill is in.
Rutgers spent $1.61 million on student-athlete meals not related to travel in fiscal year 2016, according to the athletic department's report of revenues and expenses submitted to the NCAA and obtained by NJ Advance Media through an Open Public Records Act request.
That is a new expense not listed on corresponding reports from previous years, and it combines both meal allowances as well as the cost of food and snacks provided to student-athletes.