re: Alabama At Full Health

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There are players who aren't a part of the team by their choice or the team's choice. If you have something missing it isn't by choice. For example, people put up missing posters or notices of things like pets/personal items/etc. Those aren't missing by choice.

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Like I said, it's about missing expected production during the season. If someone declares for the draft, he isn't expected to produce once the next season starts. Once the season starts, the expectation is that the players are going to produce for you. When a player stops producing during the season, they certainly can be "missed" for whatever reason, whether they quit, are suspended, or even if they are held out for a time (say, due to a targeting penalty in the 2nd half of the previous game).

I think you're getting hung up on the term "missing". You believe for something to be missed, it must have been "lost" on accident rather than on purpose. Have you ever had to send a child away to school or have them move out to start their independent life? You can still "miss" them even though they are gone with intent. Ever move to a new home and/or state? You can "miss" those you left behind, or even the place you left behind though you may have left on purpose.

If a player struggles with their grades and can't play in the post-season because they are academically ineligible, can they be "missed" by their team if they were a productive member of the team? Sure they can, because they were likely expected to play and when they couldn't play, they were "missed". When a player--especially a starter--cannot play, it affects more than themselves. It affects the chemistry of the team. It affects any backups that have to sub in (including depleted depth that was planned for due to the expected presence of the "missing" person). It potentially affects what plays or schemes can be called by the coordinators. And depending on the skill level, talent level, and experience level of the backup, it could be a net loss of productivity for that position regardless of anything else.

So yes, a player can be "missed" when they can no longer play, for whatever reason, when they were expected to play and produce for the team. That's why the best teams develop depth at all positions, so they can truly have a "next man up" mentality, regardless of who is missing, and why.

Your re-definition of "missing" seems to be from the leftist deconstructionist playbook where meanings of words are stripped and replaced to mean something else in order to drive a particular narrative. I hope you are just mistaken rather than willfully abusing reason and language.