Rutgers is playing Maryland at Yankee Stadium next year in a football/wrestling doubleheader that you are definitely not going to watch, because it is a Rutgers-Maryland football game.

The Scarlet Knights are trying to drum up interest as New York’s Big Ten Team, despite playing home games in Piscataway, New Jersey, and they think a great way to do that is to play a game in actual New York.

Except Rutgers is so desperate to get New York to pay attention to it that it is shelling out $750,000 to the Yankees for permission to play that game at Yankee Stadium, according to an open records request from NJ.com.

Rutgers already has a pile of debt in a sport where it is very hard to actually lose money if you’re spending reasonably, so this added expense—for a game Rutgers fans don’t even want to happen—is a tough pill to swallow.

You might make some bad spending decisions while watching college football next fall, but at least you didn’t pay three-quarters of a million dollars to lose a game at Yankee Stadium that nobody wants to watch. Only Rutgers is capable of doing that.

[NJ.com]