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The football team at Rutgers University racked up over $450,000 worth of DoorDash deliveries from May 2021 to June 2022 — despite the Rutgers athletic department running at a $73 million deficit over 2020 and 2021, according to a Bergen Record review of financial records from the school’s athletics Department.

The university responded to the investigation’s findings and said athletes were permitted to use the delivery service due to quarantine regulations in the NCAA’s COVID Q&A guide.

“Our institution was permitted to use DoorDash based on this guidance to allow institutions to provide boxed food delivery services or food-related gift cards to a student-athlete who was required to remain at home, return home or who was otherwise unable to access campus due to COVID,” Rutgers Athletics said in a statement.

“Many of our student-athletes come from economically challenged backgrounds and in addition to how difficult it was to meet their nutritional needs with COVID, this was the best way to look out for our student-athletes’ welfare. We continued to use DoorDash until June 2022 to provide to-go meal options to student-athletes in instances when a permissible meal was not otherwise available or provided.

“DoorDash was used as a substitute for institutional meals when student-athletes were in quarantine or participating in team activities such as rehab, practice and competition, and food was not provided in the facility.” 

Rutgers said the DoorDash delivery program was not only limited to its football team, but available to many student-athletes on campus.

The financial review also found that athletes had placed DoorDash deliveries from convenience stores and pharmacies — with some orders coming thousands of miles away from the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, near athletes’ hometowns.

“In one case, a player placed orders a thousand miles apart on the same day, in Florida and New York — and then continued to make orders in Florida for two more days,” the Bergen Record found. 

“Over 14 months there were roughly 19,745 orders for student-athletes at an average monthly transaction cost of $22.88,” Rutgers Athletics said. “There were three student-athletes who made limited purchases of non-food items, which was outside the constraints of the program, and those have been addressed in the manner required by the NCAA.”

The DoorDash program reportedly was set up to provide $75 per week, with that amount uploaded one week at a time. At the conclusion of each week, unused funds were cleared and there were no individual transaction limits.

In late June, Rutgers switched to GrubHub as its delivery service, citing lower costs. GrubHub will be limited to delivering food and beverages only.

Rutgers went 5-8 last season, losing 38-10 to Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Bowl.