For those knocking kids who leave before bowl

Can't say I wouldn't do the same.

They risk big money every play of every game.

If you commit to coming back for a season, you need to be there for the whole season.

This "skip the bowl game" cancer is going to spread. You're going to have guys play 3-4 games of the regular season and if the team loses a game or two decide to just peace out and sit the rest of the year.

Such a thing was unthinkable a generation ago.

They have every right to not play if that's what they choose, but I have every right to call them a selfish baby and a bad teammate.

I don't blame a kid for sitting out if he will likely be taken at the top of the first round if he is in a regular bowl game and not in the playoff. Why would you subject yourself to a potential career ending or major injury right before the draft? Tear an ACL you are falling out of the first round losing alot of money. This is avoiding unnecessary risk and those who say it is selfish would probably do the same if they were in that position. When that much money is up for grabs I don't blame them.

They act as if the likelihood of injuries in bowl games vs the regular season is uniquely higher. If they are truly so concerned with protecting their guaranteed money, they should hang it up as soon as they have cemented themselves as probable high draftees -- if they have a monster week 5 or 6 which puts them on everyone's mock radar, then they should bow out immediately thereafter.

Let's be real . . . sitting the bowl game out (or leaving earlier) is nothing more than them saying "I'm tired of this bullshite, I'm beyond this amateur scene, I'm moving on."

I don't knock those guys. It's a business decision involving millions of dollars.

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Such a thing was unthinkable a generation ago.

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Such a thing was unthinkable until the talking heads kept pushing the “Clowney should sit out the entire season” narrative a few years ago. And it still should be unthinkable. If you commit to play for your team, that should mean something. It shouldn’t require you play until you’re not in the playoffs or to the point where you decide the games are “meaningless.” They’re not meaningless for the people who helped these players become high draft picks. It’s whatever, that’s Greedy’s cross to bear.

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Let's be real . . . sitting the bowl game out (or leaving earlier) is nothing more than them saying "I'm tired of this bullshite, I'm beyond this amateur scene, I'm moving on."

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Yep, it’s saying I don’t want to study and pass my finals and am too selfish to wait 5 weeks before I can get a loan from my agent to buy a new car and watch I don’t need.

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The bowl game is nothing more than an exhibition game

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Bowl games count in the win/loss column just like a regular season game

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because the main purpose of these games (why we have so many of them) is for people to make money off of them.

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What do you think the purpose of any sport is? You think college football is what it is for any other reason except that it makes money?

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For all those that don't agree, would you put your greatest financial asset at risk, whatever that may be, with the possibility of no return on that risk

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This isn’t all or nothing. Even if injured, greedy still walks away with life changing money.

Agree with taking advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity. A bowl game is meaningless for them in the overall scheme of things. As fans we want to see the best on the field so we have a different perspective.

And here it is folks...this is the brand new talking point from the cess pool, Tr. Here are the Clift notes:

“(1) you can’t blame the “kid” who just wants money; (i think it is odd to refer to a 21 year old as a “kid”..)

(2) the bowl games are “meaningless;” (even though they are widely watched nation wide and set the impression of your team in fans from everywhere)

(3) the bowl games are just an exhibition; (see above)

(4) the “kid” owes his team, mates, coaches, fans and school nothing.” (never mind all that crap about duty, honor, commitment, all that stupid meaningless shite)

If course the inevitible thing this attitude spawns is happening at LSU...if the bowl games are “meaningless,” so are the last few games of the season. For that matter, so is the whole third year of eligibility. For that matter, what is do sacred about the CFp?

LSU has had more “sit-outs” than any SEC school the last 3-4 years. They also lead the league yearly in marginal third year players declaring for the draft. It seems LSU players have demonstrated repeatedly they don’t give a shite about the school, team or fans...only their personal prospects. It has gone on so long it is now part of the expected LSU culture.

What is different now is that the L8U fans on Tr are adopting this position as an acceptable behavior and justifying it. Some are actually making fun of players who have a sense of duty. And other LSUers seem to be trying to spread the behavior to other teams an fan bases to hide their own dishonor.

The concept of “duty” is apparently so alien to LSU life that on this board certain LSU fans have made fun of military Vietnam service as being foolish and stupid ....so much for “duty, honor, country” among that sordid LSU mob.

I suggest L8U just drop their football program if the players, team and fans think it is all just an unimportant “exhibition.” No wonder LSU is referred to as “LUSer.”