re: Should Clowney Sit Out 2013?

Hey Tom Sorenson,

frick off.. I'd prefer to not turn CFB into the shite CBB has turned into..

No way do I feel sorry for a guy that only has a 5-6 year NFL career. He has a college education and would have made more than I will in my lifetime..

Wow, a football player has a tough choice.

Welcome to the real world

YES. HE SHOULD SIT OUT!

This is the dumbest idea ever

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Apart from the fact that he’d be out of sight for 2013, some coaches and scouts may have concerns about a guy whose love of football has been overcome by his own financial interests.

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This is why nobody will ever sit out and be successful in the NFL.

The system is flawed without question. Clowney SHOULD have the option of going to the NFL. The free market should dictate his situation and it's ridiculous that a player can't go and make millions of dollars and instead must stay in school, esp because the chances or injury are so much greater in football and the physical toll of the game is so harsh. BTW, I understand this would apply to Johnny Manziel as well.

It's about choice. You have to allow people to make them, even if they are the wrong choices. I look at a guy like Maurice Clarett for instance and honestly wonder if he had been able to go to the NFL instead of being a farce of a college player before losing his eligibility and having nowhere to go for a year what might have been. If a kid doesn't want to be a college student they shouldn't have to be, excuse me a legal adult.

Clowney will likely get insurance and that's all well and good but it can't really cover him properly. He is a guy that has been awfully clear he is all about playing at the next level so he should have that option. He can't really improve his draft stock but he can certainly harm it.

I don't think the NFL would see the "1 and done" situation of the NBA either. You just don't have as many kids physically mature enough at 18 to play in the NFL like they can in the NBA. It's really a very small amount of athletes we are talking about. Moreso, unlike in basketball if a kid doesn't make an NFL roster he has nowhere to go. In basketball a kid can go to the NBDL or Europe or elsewhere to play and either make a living or work their way in the league. A football player would have to be a LOT more careful. Some kids will make mistakes but that's life. You can't have freedom without responsibility.

BTW, I really think a lot of kids will stay anyway to continue to improve draft stock. The NFL wants more developed players than the NBA where they will take a "project" more readily.

Clowney Twitter (the real one): I'm playing

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Clowney wasn’t the only person to address the situation. His college head coach, Steve Spurrier, addressed the situation and practically laughed off the idea of Clowney choosing to sit out the year.

“(I)f money was his only goal in life, then he couldn’t play. And he might not get into a car before next year’s draft, so he wouldn’t be in a car wreck and get injured,” Spurrier said.

“He would be just very, very careful for a year not to have any kind of injury. “But Jadeveon likes football. Football players play football … I think he wants to play. I certainly hope and believe he does. I think he should play for South Carolina this season.

“Most of the guys that say he should sit out, they don’t realize the benefits of being on a college football team, and continuing with your teammates to have as big of a year as you possibly can. The money is going to be there down the road, so why would a person give up the thrill of playing college football? “Those people have never played football, so they say he should sit out and get the money. That’s the only side of sports they see — the money. There’s a lot more to it than just the money.”

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