Christmas Comes Early for Student Athletes, If You're Good Enough!

Military Bowl Twitter trying to respond to the minimal fan base that has any interest in this game

(SBJ/SBD) - The NCAA allows each bowl to award up to $550 worth of gifts to 125 participants per school. Schools can, and usually do, buy additional packages that they can distribute to participants beyond that 125 limit. In addition, participants can receive awards worth up to $400 from the school and up to $400 from the conference for postseason play, covering both conference title games and any bowl game.

Boom the NCAA strikes again. As a Terps football fan, all I wanted for the holidays was a winning season, make a bowl game that WASN'T the Military bowl, and see Stefon Diggs and CJ Brown (maybe) get some all-conference honors.

And you know what, things looked great at the beginning of the year. Routing the likes of FIU and ODU every year like we should, Edsall getting some revenge at his old schools expense, and a through open-palmed pimpsmack to the face of an underachieving West Virginia team who's had our number for most of my recent memory. Everything was looking up for the Terps...

But then reality set in. The Terps (ranked at the time) waltzed into ACC play actually thinking they had a chance against Famous Jameis. Good one. Raped (no pun intended) to the tune of 63-0, the largest margin of defeat in ACC history, and proceeded to go 3-5 in conference play, lose their top two WRs to injury after a season of ACL tears and linebacker QBs, and end up at...the Military Bowl. 

So what does 7-5 (3-5) get you? Why not the newest hot sony product, a PS4?!?

And this fucking sweet gaming chair that has multiple USB ports to charge your electronics!

For 7-5....and a losing conference record? Honestly, i've never understood these "gift packages" that players receive. As if playing on National television, getting tons of sick athletic gear for free, scholarships for academia weren't enough, lets toss the, some of the coolest shit hitting the market right before the holidays! Merry Christmas indeed. Makes my Christmas look like when Stan Smith convinced Martin Scorsese to give up drugs in American Dad. For such an irrelevant game like the Military Bowl, the packages these guys are receiving is mind-boggling. We can give these kids thousands of dollars worth of free gifts, but not cream cheese with a bagel. *Scratches head* If we're going to reward players for making mediocre bowl games, you might as well just pay them to play. That way they can decide whether or not they want to go buy a PS4 themselves, or just spend hundreds of dollars at Chik-Fil-A or the nearest liquor store. Spoiled kids these days. And what about the kids at the schools who don't make bowl games? They're not good enough for a PS4? Even though they could out-run, hustle, catch, throw, kick better than the majority of their campus, because they're below average they don't get cool free shit? Cuncel the gifts. Pay the players.

P.S. - Way to go all out BWW's. Not even throwing any sauces or rubs into your bowl game gift package and sticking with the generic watch & backpack combo. I would probably demand at least 5-10 bottles of spicy garlic sauce easily.