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What will happen to the bowl season? Fewer sponsors. Less money will lead to fewer of them. Who wants to watch the freshman QB who may have been a top recruit but not ready?
Perfect storm I say. It’s covid, CRT, Jan. 6, and Trump all coming together. People are getting fed up all across the nation over many issues not yet discovered.
Can we all just get along? I say no.
Owe nothing? You’re kidding me. They get a top quality education for free and now get paid for it. If they play well, their families are set for life. Without the Universities most of these guys and their families would remain in the ghetto and in poverty for generations
Depending on Matt Corral’s medicals, it might accelerate. A projected first-round pick looking at guaranteed millions, he never considered sitting the bowl game for a moment and ended up on crutches with a less certain future.
For the most part, I have no issue with players making their choices, as long as they have to live with the consequences. I really had a problem with the team that took their NFL-bound QB to the bowl and put him in the press box with the coaches (Pickett, IIRC). If the player says he needs to get ready for the NFL, then he needs to be anywhere but the bowl game so he can push iron, run sprints, throw routes, etc. The bowl game is a reward for the PLAYERS, not the straphangers.
I don’t really care about what is best for the players’ future careers. I’m a fan, so I care about the games being played. So just as the players have the right to not play in games they believe lack importance, I have the right to not watch those same “unimportant” games.
If the schools, bowl games, or NCAA want the players to play, perhaps they should pay for insurance policies based on their perceived draft status and significance of injury. I’m sure the insurance companies can figure out the cost of such policies.
Players are the customer, the one paying the universities. That’s Mr./Ms. Player to the University, and the customer is always right. And BTW: scholarships are merely purchase discounts offered by the seller/universities; nothing owed by the customer is accepting an offered discount.
Major League Baseball has better control over its minor league system than the NFL and NBA do. And the baseball players in the minors are willing to accept compensation and conditions that the typical minor league NFL or NBA prospect would be livid about.
The transfer portal allows top players to be bought and sold during their college career.
What's wrong with that?
Willis Mcgahee
...In the early part of the fourth quarter during the 2003 Fiesta Bowl National Championship Game, McGahee suffered an injury after catching a screen pass from Dorsey. He was immediately hit by Buckeye safety Will Allen, bending his left knee backwards and causing tears of the ACL, PCL, and MCL.
They are low life people who don’t care about anything but theirselves. This fake “national championship” is more of
the legacy of Obama the retard.
The ghetto destroys everything it touches.
Ask the starting QBs for Utah and Ole Miss if they’d rather not played.
I think this football employment strategy will start spreading into the regular college season next year.
The last NFL players contract significantly reduced First Round pay checks, but guaranteed a four year contract (plus a fifth year team option).
The Top 25 NFL prospects, who are certain they will be drafted in the First Round, really need to think hard about dropping out of college after the eighth or ninth game of their last season.
High injury positions - running backs specifically - need to stop playing college ball even sooner.
Very few running backs get drafted in the First Round - just four in the last three years, and the highest pick was #24.
Why? Because no team wants to pay an injured or hobbled player for four years.
In my opinion, I think running backs should play just one or two entire seasons of college ball, then drop out and declare for the Draft after their third year. You cannot get drafted in the NFL until three years after high school graduation.
Their advisors are the ones who will actullynmake the decisions, the players will just go along with them.
American football is a pointless waste of time. Billions of dollars and hours are consumed by the teams and the public in idolizing a sport that has next to no component of skill when compared to other athletic undertakings. Large millionaires and soon to become millionaires bumping into each other to some small advantage is the basic theme. Only professional basketball is more trivial.
When the older players sit out and allow the younger ones to play, the coach screams and uses that as an excuse for being unprepared and losing. (Mike Leach, Mississippi State)
Perfect answer for the "Me" generation. Those players have 100 teammates who were there for them, showing up everyday doing the work so the "star" can develop his skills and showcase for the NFL. The 100+ were there every day, every game for the team. The "self centered, it's all about me" star tells the 100+ to go pound sand for what is probably the biggest game of their life. The star doesn't care that without that 100+ he would be looking for a job at 7/11.
Wake Forest and Old Miss. lost players in their Bowl games. Mixed feeling about this. A+ for loyalty to team mates, but risked future with possible career ending injuries.