Luckily he didn't opt out before the Rose Bowl against Iowa...
Tampa Out
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Unless Tennessee wins with back ups...we won't let them forget it! Lol
Lazard is probably the only guy who would have sat out the '17 Liberty Bowl. Montgomery and maybe Butler only ones in '18.
KidSilverhair
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you mean the guy who turned down 4-5x as much money to go to better programs this offseason but decided to stay at a 4 win Iowa State because he loved the coaching staff and this university...I would say 0
Yes but we were all bought into this bowl thing for decades until the last ten years with the playoff realizing the giant hoodwink that was going on. CW and Hassel talked about this on their recent Two Guys Named Chris pod.
Unless their NIL deals and scholarships have language requiring it - $0.
The bowl falls between semesters. Fall semester is over and spring hasn't started yet. He was with the team (I'd assume) through the end of classes & finals, so that books have closed on that. I'd imagine he'd be off to prep for the combine rather than take spring classes.
As for NIL, I'll have to admit I don't really know how they're structured. It wouldn't shock me if the deals terminate when/if the player leaves the team, but also are structured with regular payments rather than a lump sum.
I think he'd be a good fit on the Vikes. They have them going CB in the first then QB in the second, but i can see them go QB(Shedeur Sanders is not going to the NFL yet either) in the first and CB in second and they are ahead of Indy.
5 years ago I would have been upset. College football has been circling the drain for awhile now so this isn't a big deal.
It does make you wonder though where schools draw the line. Do we start "opting out" in mid November once your school is eliminated from the playoffs? And why should they still get the full scholarship benefits on top of the NIL money?
It does make you wonder though where schools draw the line. Do we start "opting out" in mid November once your school is eliminated from the playoffs? And why should they still get the full scholarship benefits on top of the NIL money?
TJ getting drafted high is more of a benefit for the program then what he could in the bowl game.
My only concern with that is G5, ACC and B12 champ qualifiers would be three spots. They are going to working to pull PAC’s auto-bid. ESPN, FOX and the CFB illuminati will ensure that the other nine spots are from the new SEC and B10. It would suck for only one B12 team, maybe two, to be the only ones with post season play. CFP or bust is going to suck.
It's not a coincidence that ESPN, in addition to broadcasting 39 of the 42 games, also owns/operates 16 of them.
And of those 16, only Las Vegas and Boise existed before 2002.
The obvious ways to fix bowls being somewhat entertaining is cut the players some money for playing and somehow fix the transfer portal timeline.
Maybe it’ll be better next year with the playoff but the huge gap between ccg and the bowls makes the sport loses its luster imo. They go from being one of the main talking points to going dark outside of recruting and the portal which the casual fan doesn’t care about.
Maybe it’ll be better next year with the playoff but the huge gap between ccg and the bowls makes the sport loses its luster imo. They go from being one of the main talking points to going dark outside of recruting and the portal which the casual fan doesn’t care about.
