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When you take a job at a company, are you not part of their team? Of course you are. But the second a better offer comes along you bolt. And nobody hold it against you

This is no different, and it is why his teammates understand

But some people can't comprehend athletes are real people. They see them as pawns for their enjoyment

It is absolutely different as explained elsewhere.

But... just for the sake of argument, let's transpose this situation. I'll even use McCaffrey to take away the perceived Fournette and LSU bias.

McCaffrey is without question perceived as the best player on the Stanford team. The odds of their winning a game are certainly higher when he plays than when he does not. If he voluntarily chooses to not play or give full effort, he hurts his teams ability to compete well and do their best.

Now, as a manager, would you tolerate an employee being paid their fully agreed upon compensation if you saw that they were not giving their full effort? Would you let a salesman make only half of his sales calls? Would you let that factory worker show up late every day? Would you let the secretary take off without good reason extra holidays and Fridays? Of course not.

Understand that if Fournette and McCaffrey want to make this decision, fine, that's their right. I think it is a bad decision with negative long term ramifications, but I fully believe it is their right. But making this decision does not insulate them from reasonable criticism as public personalities.