Kolek planning to go pro
Rich Eisen reacting to the Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley moves …Kelly jumped from a team that had a realistic chance of being in the playoffs this year. Riley bolted on a team that was eligible for a January 1 bowl.So, never again complain when players skip a bowl to prepare for the draft like the criticism Christian McCafferty suffered a few years ago.Never again complain when players transfer.It is a business and they are making business decisions because this is professional sports.Is he wrong?
I can’t fathom people getting bent out of shape for a player skipping a non-CFO bowl or non-NYD bowl game As for coaches, I think some could handle it better, especially with their players/teams, but otherwise I don’t begrudge anyone going out there and getting paid
Wake Forest's coach said that the NCAA needs to look at its rules after Pitt's QB scored on a long run that included faking a slide last night. I'm right there with him. I would actually go as far as to call a fake slide a dirty play. You can't let players use rules created solely to protect them against the defense.
It was an amazing run. Yet, the defense did slow down when the Pitt quarterback was starting to make the slide motion.
Just one nit: Why would it matter if it was a NYD bowl? It's A-OK for a Michigan State player to protect his future earnings and skip the Peach Bowl but not for an Ohio State player to protect his future earnings and skip the Rose Bowl? I don't get that, Wags. They're both glorified exhibition games.
"Dirty"? Come on. Its definitely kind of a cheap grey area that should be changed, but as of now its a legal play that doesn't hurt or endanger anyone.
No debate that its not a legal play right now, but that's because no one imagined a player would look that gift horse in the mouth. If his buttcheek hits the ground there and someone takes his head off, we'd no have problem debating whether or not that was dirty. So I think the reverse is dirty too. Its a play that succeeds only because of how it has been ingrained in defensive players to protect his safety.
Why limit this to bowl games? Once a player’s position in the draft is pretty well established why not just quit the team? There was no reason for Trevor Lawrence to play the last year he was at Clemson. Probably lots of guys every year who should play it safe and quit early, midway or late in their final year.Dwayne Wade enhanced his status by playing in the NCAA tournament but Zion Williamson could (should?) have played it safe and left Duke in January of his freshman year.
Nope.Why limit this to bowl games? Once a player’s position in the draft is pretty well established why not just quit the team? There was no reason for Trevor Lawrence to play the last year he was at Clemson. Probably lots of guys every year who should play it safe and quit early, midway or late in their final year.
Looks like Cristobal is heading to Miami.I have no idea where Oregon goes with their search. The last two guys have high-tailed it back to Florida as soon as they got offers. If Bryan Harsin would have stuck it out at Boise (and got vaccinated), he probably would have been on the short list. But there doesn't seem to be many great options for them in the region. Maybe Blake Anderson at Utah State...but he's a southern guy who's only been at USU one year. Does Chris Petersen want to get back into coaching?
Is that a good enough job to dislodge Fickell? Getting passed up for ND has to sting, and its hard to foresee any of the top 40 national jobs the midwest has to offer coming open anytime soon. Culturally, the pacific northwest would be an easier move to swallow than SEC or southern ACC jobs, money is no factor, and Phil Knight has made the Oregon job a "cool" job for a young guy.
I just read through the college bowl schedule. Half of the bowls seem to be filled with 6-6 teams.Talk about "who cares"?
That will happen with 42 bowls games. Back in my day I remember when 19 bowl games was alot.
Nope.Why limit this to bowl games? Once a player’s position in the draft is pretty well established why not just quit the team? There was no reason for Trevor Lawrence to play the last year he was at Clemson. Probably lots of guys every year who should play it safe and quit early, midway or late in their final year.Dwayne Wade enhanced his status by playing in the NCAA tournament but Zion Williamson could (should?) have played it safe and left Duke in January of his freshman year.
a bowl game was added just so they could get the 83rd bowl eligible team into a game and then 6-7 Hawaii was put in as their opponent. Ridiculous. https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/hawaii-bowl-matchup-set-after-ncaa-adds-extra-bowl-game/