Kolek planning to go pro
Come on, I'm not talking about the Beef O'Brady Bowl. I'm talking Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach, Orange, Citrus, Outback, Holiday, Sun Bowl for starters. I will be on my college hoops as well. I have multiple TV's in my man cave!
Which is why they should cut the bowls to a reasonable number and add them to the playoff system...so they really mean something, like the NCAA tournament. Maybe go from 4 teams to 8 or 16.If they still want other games sponsored by Beef O'Brady (is that a real thing?), call them exhibition games...which is what they really are.
The problem with expanding the playoff, especially to 16, is you're asking teams to shorten their seasons, giving up huge revenues from home games and ending non-conference matchups, or you're extending the season another 2+ weeks, essentially asking 18- to 20-year-old kids (on the better teams) to play an NFL schedule.
How many teams in the D2 playoffs?
This was a sentiment many expressed last year after Fournette and McCaffrey decided to skip postseason exhibition games. However, there is a lot of time between Jan. 1 and the draft, and they spent months training hard, had great workout for GMs, and showed they were serious about being pros. Each was drafted in the top 10, and each has helped a likely playoff team this season.I seriously doubt any smart GM will have the concerns you mention - as long as the players follow up their college careers by showing NFL teams how serious they are about being NFL players.
Skip the Bowl Game, pull their scholarship. Simple as that.
I'm way out of the CFB loop, but aren't the players who skip the bowl games presumably declaring for the draft anyway? If so, how would pulling their scholarship affect them?
They can actually go back and charge them for fall semester if they don't complete the season. No one would ever do that. It would be a PR nightmare.
Exactly. And GMs know exactly why players are doing this.
Maybe. But the list of clowns GM's have drafted over the years would beat any sport. They have clearly proven they are not psychoanalytic experts.
I don't think this is true.
I have trouble believing that there are a higher percentage of first-round busts in the NFL than in MLB.In MLB, it seems that almost as many 22nd-rounders make it as first-rounders. Probably isn't the case, but it seems like it.
Sorry. Clowns = bad character people. I was saying NFL GM's seem to weigh character very low on their determination of a draft pick so what does it matter if people are not team players (what I was talking about in earlier post). Team players are the least of GM's problems in some cases.
..and I thought Pakuni was skipping Bowl games on TV.
I don't think you are correct. Teams do a vast array of psychological testing on potential draftees. It is a big part of the evaluation process.
I am sure it is. And my guess is a lot of it is ignored otherwise you would not have murderers, rapists, spouse abusers, etc.. drafted so often in the early rounds.