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Quitting on your team is a **** move... till u look at your kid and realize an injury means he’ll grow up in poverty.
If you spend 3 years in college (4 in Grier's case) then you arent going to be in poverty.
Quitting on your team is a **** move... till u look at your kid and realize an injury means he’ll grow up in poverty.
Agreed.
I understand skipping a bowl game if you’re injured but ‘could play’. You might aggravate the injury. Leaving your team if your healthy is turning your back on your teammates, coaches, school, and fans.
Especially if you’re in a leadership position like Grier.
I understand the chance of a career-ending injury, but how often has this actually happened?
$40,000 vs $2.5 million.If you spend 3 years in college (4 in Grier's case) then you arent going to be in poverty.
$40,000 vs $2.5 million.
You aren’t a 21 year old kid, with zero professional experience. There’s virtually no other opportunities that these kids have to pull themselves and their entire families into the middle class, or higher.I make more than triple that and I didn't even go to college...
100% correct.You aren’t a 21 year old kid, with zero professional experience. There’s virtually no other opportunities that these kids have to pull themselves and their entire families into the middle class, or higher.
You can find exceptions here or there, but there’s no way I’d blame a kid for skipping a meaningless bowl game to insure his families future.
If more and more higher-tier draft prospects start to skip bowl games does this correlate to less bowls? Also, will this possible effect usher in an expansion of the playoff? Grier doesn't skip if there is a playoff game instead of a bowl.
I wonder if he gets the bowl swag? Travel with the team?
You aren’t a 21 year old kid, with zero professional experience. There’s virtually no other opportunities that these kids have to pull themselves and their entire families into the middle class, or higher.
You can find exceptions here or there, but there’s no way I’d blame a kid for skipping a meaningless bowl game to insure his families future.
You'd be ok if our draft eligible players skipped the pinstripe bowl game.
You aren’t a 21 year old kid, with zero professional experience. There’s virtually no other opportunities that these kids have to pull themselves and their entire families into the middle class, or higher.
You can find exceptions here or there, but there’s no way I’d blame a kid for skipping a meaningless bowl game to insure his families future.
No.No game you play is meaningless. If a player thinks so they don't love the sport enough. You risk injury every game to build your resume but suddenly you're more important than the team when it's time to end your career? I wouldn't dare call him stupid or anything like that but that's definitely a selfish move for someone that should be the leader of your team, or offense at the least.
It doesn't matter, because it's still a distinct possibility. Yep, it may not happen, but that's the same thought that people like Jaylen Smith had, and the last time I checked, no one stepped up to make up the money he missed out on. I don't blame guys for looking out for themselves. Coaches bail on programs before bowl games all the time. No one says anything about them quitting on their team, it's looked at as a business decision. That's exactly what this is. It's a business decision. The guys on the team most likely understand, and they appreciate the things he did for them and the program while he was there. Unless you are in the CFP, or maybe a NY6 game, you are taking a stupid risk as a potential top end pick by playing in the postseason.
This^I think coaches who bail on their players before bowl games are wrong. They lecture on leadership and working as 'team first' but forget as soon as the idea is inconvenient. Brian Kelly deserted Cincinnati for Notre Dame a week or so before the first-ever Sugar Bowl. He's was a POS then, and still is. Scott Frost took the Nebraska job but still coached UCF against Auburn in UCF's biggest bowl game in their history.
If you're asking others to give their all for you, do the same for them.
Lead from the front.