re: Some Of Yall Need To Let The Baker Stuff Go

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Attendance overall has been decreasing. In a lot of cases, people can't justify the cost of showing up for games, that shite gets expensive even if you have the money to burn. The powers that be are banking big time on TV money being there forever and that's not always a sure fire bet.

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I graduated in 1968. I know many alumni from the '60s through the '90s. Quite a few of us can easily afford season tickets and the Hartman Fund, and the occasional travel to an away game. But many have also been directing their excess donations to the University General Fund or to certain specific programs.
If the school wants to rely on TV money, more of those donations will go elsewhere and fans will have tailgate parties at the lake and watch the game on TV. Several of us dropped our WLOCP tickets years ago and now have a golf week somewhere and watch the game on TV.

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Don't be so dense

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Physician, heal thyself.

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If you're in projected first rounder and possibly top 10 chances are one game can't improve your stock that much.

But an injury especially a major one can drop you out of the 1st round and cost a guy millions.

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Right, so if playing *one* game exposes a player to a risk of injury that could cost him millions and therefore justifies skipping it, in what possible universe does it make more sense to play *two* games that expose the same guy to a risk of injury that could cost him millions of dollars?

From a "protecting your livelihood" point of view, playing any game after you're happy with your likely draft position is absolute folly.

Are you seriously this dense?

Baker and other like him would be playing in the playoffs because there's a trophy to play for. There's nothing to play for in the sugar bowl.

There is a risk in both but why take a risk when there is no title to play for?

That is the way people like Baker look at it and it's usually only players who can't really improve their draft stock anymore

Ridley, Nauta, and Hardman had the most to lose by getting hurt in the Sugar Bowl because they aren't elite prospects. An injury to any of them would have significantly dropped their draft stock.

But they all played in the sugar bowl. Because they aren't pussies.

They all had something to gain too. Baker was a first rounder who had nothing left to gain. But please cry more

You are implying that the playoffs are the standard for when a top ten draft pick guy should play post season. The reward that entices them to play is a trophy.

Stop and listen to yourself for a second. A trophy to go in the schools case and a ring. You are saying that a trophy that they will never possess and a $500 ring is going to be the things that make them change their mind about potentially risking millions by playing in one and possibly two extra games.

Pandora’s box is open. The NFL teams are not going to criticize this because it is in their best interest that these high draft players do not get injured in post season games. You want to know who these games are “meaningless” to? The first 10 teams on the draft board. The people who are in these players ears also consider playoff games “meaningless” They don’t give a flip about playoff games. They care about money. You are to young to understand these things right now but over time you will see how damaging this is to the purity (what’s left of it) of college football.