Illinois' RB just opted out.......
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I'm betting pretty soon you're going to see coaches tie scholarship offers and businesses tying NIL deals to playing all bowl games unless injured or received a first round draft grade. Bowl games are about to become battles of walk-ons.
So for all the freaking out here a few weeks ago about our players opting out and entering the transfer portal because they “hate the offense” it has been Illinois who has been hit hard with the opt outs. Their top two cornerbacks and their running back have opted out and their DC accepted the head coaching position at Purdue and won’t coach the bowl game.
Gotta make the bowls mean something. How about the winner gets to take the best player from the loser!
But seriously, There needs to be a huge incentive placed on playing in the bowls. Since all the bowls have corporate sponsors, why can’t they pay out a sum to each player on the winner and a lower sum to each player in the loser. Swag bags are nice, but Cash is still King!
actually, there could be a minimum payout set to even host a Bowl to make sure they cover the player payouts. That would get rid of about 10-12 lower bowls right there.
But seriously, There needs to be a huge incentive placed on playing in the bowls. Since all the bowls have corporate sponsors, why can’t they pay out a sum to each player on the winner and a lower sum to each player in the loser. Swag bags are nice, but Cash is still King!
actually, there could be a minimum payout set to even host a Bowl to make sure they cover the player payouts. That would get rid of about 10-12 lower bowls right there.
In the last week the spread has dropped from Illinois -2.5 to even. I expect us to be favored within the next week.
Which means we will likely lose by twenty.
Until the playoff system came along the Bowls didn't mean doodlely-squat either. It's not like the best teams ever played each other (rarely if ever) at seasons end under the old- old bowl system. It was an opportunity for the local Chambers of Commerce to make money and for kids to get rewarded for a good season.
The Media always picked the national champion and the only folks who gave a 17 were the one's rooting for the team that got selected.
Let the bowls be meaningless, let players opt out, let players/teams just go an have a good time. Fans can have fun or be bitch3rs about it.
Soon we're going to have a 12 team PLAYOFF and we don't ever have to pretend the other bowls meant anything beyond rewards and local revenue.
The Media always picked the national champion and the only folks who gave a 17 were the one's rooting for the team that got selected.
Let the bowls be meaningless, let players opt out, let players/teams just go an have a good time. Fans can have fun or be bitch3rs about it.
Soon we're going to have a 12 team PLAYOFF and we don't ever have to pretend the other bowls meant anything beyond rewards and local revenue.
And good luck to the Running Back. Hope he has a great pro career, but mostly I hope the team he abandoned has negative rushing yards in whatever the hell this bowl is called.
There he goes "Thanking God". You thank God in a prayer, on your knees, in private.
Sometimes it really amazes me just how much college football has changed since the days when I first sat in the stands cheering the Bulldogs on. Parts of it are really good. Parts of it are really screwy. I have to wonder how something like this might've affected those times. No, I'm not pinning for the good old days. I just wonder how things might've been different and if we would've been better or worse off.
It seems like the Bowls could pay some NIL money to the players as an incentive to participate. But, if the players opting out are entering the draft there probably is not enough NIL money available to entice them.
Seems like all the players should get some cash beyond their gift bags, though.
Seems like all the players should get some cash beyond their gift bags, though.
Well there is a pretty good chance these Illinois players did hate their offense.
That makes too much sense. The only way to make these exhibition games mean anything is to let the players make 20% of what the conference makes off of it.
