re: Kirby unhappy with all of FSU's opt-outs: "It affected the game. 100%."

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They can’t force the players to play. It’s a ridiculous notion. They will just have an “injury” if need be. You don’t want guys who don’t want to play out there anyway.

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The first thing CFB needs to do is decide what the hell its going to be. Is it an amateur league of student athletes or are they a pro league?

Right now, they’re acting like both. They’re allowing players to get paid like pros but they’re giving players the options/freedoms to move around/leave like any other student.

Doing both is a disaster and it was obvious to a lot of people that it would be. There is no way to have your cake and eat it too. Either be a pro league, introduce contracts/salary caps and tell kids they’re not bouncing around all over the country anymore, or go back to when the scholarship/stipend was the only allowable benefit (if you want to get paid, you simply can’t play CFB period).

Yeah easier said than done but CFB dies if they don’t do one or the other.