My answer to this comment. You have a bigger risk of getting into an auto accident and ending your career than playing in one more game.
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“The risk of playing in the bowl is too great”
- Thread starter FeatheredCock
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They mentioned this during the Bama K St game. Announcers said Saban’s answer to players sitting out is basically, your best prep for the NFL is playing football. That over workouts and the combine. Or something to that effect. I agree with that sentiment in principle but I’ve never been in that position.
FurmanCock
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I'm of the opinion that when you are on a team, you commit to play for the entire season. You don't get to pick and choose which games in the season you play. IMHO you owe that to your teammates.
I agree with this. If I was on a team, I would not want to let my teammates down. I’m an individualist, and the older I get the less I want to be dependent on others, but when you are on a team, there is a camaraderie that develops and you don’t break that.
FurmanCock
Grand Poohbah
These NIL contracts need to start reflecting full season participation.
Transfers and opt-outs aside, I think injuries to players can have an effect on themselves and their teammates.
I noticed that a lot of our guys left early after Lattimore's injuries. They saw how the injuries took away his NFL career.
We all noticed the high number of player injuries on Muschamp's squads, too, and these are essentially his guys.
Shane can take a firm stance on bowl games because next year's class is stacked pretty good, too.
It was a back-and-forth sold-out bowl game between two evenly-matched teams. We just came up short.
Buckner beat us the same way Joyner beat UNC last year. Both QBs prevailed because they played so little and there wasn't much film to watch on them in the regular season. From that standpoint, I tend to think we might have lost the bowl game anyway even if we weren't missing the transfers and opt-outs.
We beat ND in 1984 with essentially a two-QB system. Rattler is not a legit Heisman hopeful because he runs out of fear instead of with aggression most of the time.
We had no answer on defense earlier in the season for the Hogs' mobile QB KJ Jefferson with a full roster, either.
I think the team still has some problems that need to be fixed that can hopefully be resolved next season with the solid class of recruits.
I noticed that a lot of our guys left early after Lattimore's injuries. They saw how the injuries took away his NFL career.
We all noticed the high number of player injuries on Muschamp's squads, too, and these are essentially his guys.
Shane can take a firm stance on bowl games because next year's class is stacked pretty good, too.
It was a back-and-forth sold-out bowl game between two evenly-matched teams. We just came up short.
Buckner beat us the same way Joyner beat UNC last year. Both QBs prevailed because they played so little and there wasn't much film to watch on them in the regular season. From that standpoint, I tend to think we might have lost the bowl game anyway even if we weren't missing the transfers and opt-outs.
We beat ND in 1984 with essentially a two-QB system. Rattler is not a legit Heisman hopeful because he runs out of fear instead of with aggression most of the time.
We had no answer on defense earlier in the season for the Hogs' mobile QB KJ Jefferson with a full roster, either.
I think the team still has some problems that need to be fixed that can hopefully be resolved next season with the solid class of recruits.