Some question the often-expensive accommodations, but colleges say it’s key to getting their players game-ready. Many of the nation’s top college football teams, including the Ohio State Buckeyes, spend tens of thousands of dollars a year lodging their players in hotels the night before every game played in their own hometowns. The practice, defended by some schools as a necessary expense, is criticized by others as a waste of money in a sport that already gobbles an outsize share of some universities’ resources. Get the news delivered to your inbox: Sign up for our BuckeyeXtra newsletter Some teams spent as little as $14,000 annually on home game hotel room bills. Others paid much more: At least one racked up more than a quarter-million dollars in such expenses, according to a GateHouse Media investigation. A reporter filed public records requests with 109 public universities competing in college football’s top echelon, the…
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