Mel Bernstein
Need a first class ticket to the resurrection
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Are about to get a lot more meaningless. Good luck getting any players with even a sniff of reaching the NFL to play in these games going forward. It was already a trend, but it will accelerate now. Players are going to see what happened to King and point to that as a reason to pull the plug on the season. We have players opting out mid-game now?
The NCAA will have a problem if they don't expand the playoff or allow these guys to get paid to play. Once a player knows that his team is done and can't compete for the playoff or conference title, what is the incentive to keep playing? To play in some garbage bowl game? Because you have a scholarship? COVID was a convenient excuse this year as a way to opt out for the "remainder of the season" without any real issue, but this is a trend that will gain steam in the future.
The strong teams (Bama, Clemson, Ohio State) will continue to get stronger and the lesser teams will continue to struggle. Players on those teams aren't opting out, and are even coming back for their senior years, because they are playing for titles. The rest of the teams will see their best players shutting it down a lot sooner, and the NFL will stop caring. You'll see a lot of guys that didn't even play this year taken in rounds 1-2.
These games aren't even useful for signing day anymore, since 95% of the classes are signed before the games are even played. These games are quickly becoming the college equivalent of the Pro Bowl.
The NCAA will have a problem if they don't expand the playoff or allow these guys to get paid to play. Once a player knows that his team is done and can't compete for the playoff or conference title, what is the incentive to keep playing? To play in some garbage bowl game? Because you have a scholarship? COVID was a convenient excuse this year as a way to opt out for the "remainder of the season" without any real issue, but this is a trend that will gain steam in the future.
The strong teams (Bama, Clemson, Ohio State) will continue to get stronger and the lesser teams will continue to struggle. Players on those teams aren't opting out, and are even coming back for their senior years, because they are playing for titles. The rest of the teams will see their best players shutting it down a lot sooner, and the NFL will stop caring. You'll see a lot of guys that didn't even play this year taken in rounds 1-2.
These games aren't even useful for signing day anymore, since 95% of the classes are signed before the games are even played. These games are quickly becoming the college equivalent of the Pro Bowl.
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