South Carolina linebacker Sherrod Greene would have availed himself of any of those options. He also could have opted out of Friday's TaxSlayer Gator Bowl against Notre Dame at TIAA Bank Field (3:30 p.m., ESPN) and gotten a head start on his planned training for the NFL draft.
Forget about it. On Wednesday at Episcopal High School, Greene was going through another two-hour practice with his teammates to get ready for the Irish ... and there's nowhere he would have rather been.
"It's a brotherhood," he said. "Why would I leave that for something else?"
Stuff like this is why we will win.