The Internet Is Stunned After Barstool Sports Personality Admits She Spent $60K At Bars In One Year During College

We definitely weren’t going to the same type of bars in college.

I went to college in a pretty small town, and I’m pretty sure I never went to a bar where I paid more than like $6 for a drink. Heck, the big party night during the week was on Tuesdays when the bars would offer quarter pitcher night, where you could get a pitcher of Natty for just 25 cents. You could walk into the bar with $3 and walk out with a crippling hangover. It was awesome.

All that to say, I don’t think it would have been possible for me to spend $60K at the bars in a year, or during my entire college career. In fact I’m pretty sure that for $60K I could have bought the bar and still had money left over to pay the staff.

But it’s clear that Barstool Sports personality Ella Grif had a VERY different college experience.

The popular podcast host and star of the recent Barstool Beach House reality show recently discussed her irresponsible financial habits during an episode of her podcast, Regretfully Yours.

Grif was joined by Mike Katic, her fellow co-star from the Beach House and former starting center for the Indiana University Hoosiers football team (the same team that made the college football playoffs last year). Like Katic, Grif also went to college at Indiana, and apparently she wasn’t afraid to drop her dad’s credit card down at the bar:

“I don’t know how this went on for as long as it did but it was kind of a free for all. And I started opening tabs, I was getting so hyped that I loved the bars my senior year, just tables, and I was always shopping…

I really don’t know how I ever tried to justify that… I look back now, and I think to myself, ‘What the f–k?’

Second semester is when it got crazy, because there were times when people would be, ‘I’m not going out.’ And I’m like, ‘Well I’ll open a tab and all of you can put your drinks on it if you come.’ Because people started turning into p—–s, and I was like, ‘Let’s go. We’re only here for so long we’re about to graduate. Come on everyone, let’s have a fun time.’

And I’d come with the tray of shots. No one’s slacking or going home early, let’s get the vibes up.

Well, things got out of hand and April, the credit card bill was eleven grand. For me.”

Ella says she didn’t have any of her own money in college, which made Katic visibly uncomfortable at how much she had spent – especially when he realized that she meant she spent $11,000 in ONE month.

That led him to ask the obvious question: How much did she spend in a year?

“My whole senior year I probably spent…maybe like $60 to 70k.”

I mean, that’s a year’s tuition…

Katic admits that he probably spent $20k during his senior year, but it was NIL money that he got from playing football – not on his dad’s credit card.

And how did Papa Grif react to the spending? Well, it sounds like he took it surprisingly well:

“He was sort of like, ‘We’ll figure this out when you get home.'”

Yeah, if that was my kid we’d be figuring it out by depositing a bunch of paychecks into my account.

Well the internet was, understandably, shocked by Ella’s admission, with the video racking up over 8 million views and thousands of comments from people who were stunned by the staggering amount she spent:

I gave plasma twice a week during my freshman year so I could buy Kodiak and Busch light

— Jackson Hall (@TonyAquavelva) September 19, 2025

It took me a month to recover from spending $75 one random Friday night during my senior year

— Mr Big Guy (@nhtb1234) September 18, 2025

Yeah, I definitely can’t relate to dropping that much – even now that I have an actual job and disposable income. Never gonna happen.The post The Internet Is Stunned After Barstool Sports Personality Admits She Spent $60K At Bars In One Year During College first appeared on Whiskey Riff.