Lea and Drinkwitz push back on anti-bowl response

[18IsTheMan]

Lea when asked if they ever considered opting out of a bowl: "No, we love playing football here."

Drinkwitz taking a shot at the opt outs: “People say, ‘anytime, anywhere.’ I guess some people mean it [and] some people don’t,”

 

[JohnnySolo]

Kids don't care for the grind anymore. Can't play for a championship, well I'd rather sit in my room not taking classes and stare at my phone. Awesome life.

 

[Rhode Island Dork]

Kids don't care for the grind anymore. Can't play for a championship, well I'd rather sit in my room not taking classes and stare at my phone. Awesome life.

This is it. It's a generational problem.

 

[adcoop]

Kids don't care for the grind anymore. Can't play for a championship, well I'd rather sit in my room not taking classes and stare at my phone. Awesome life.

Don't see it that way. The current kids play the other games. They just don't subscribe to the tradition that these bowl games mean something. Let's be honest. Going to a bowl now is sort of like getting invited to the NIT in basketball. How many of our fans are excited about our 2 NIT Championships during the Odom era. It's basically a clash between eras. Traditionalists want to hold on to the Bowls. The kids are saying not so much. It happens.

 

[Lurker123]

Lea when asked if they ever considered opting out of a bowl: "No, we love playing football here."

Drinkwitz taking a shot at the opt outs: “People say, ‘anytime, anywhere.’ I guess some people mean it [and] some people don’t,”

This. If you've played, you understand the mentality of wanting that one more game.

 

[Jonesz2]

Don't see it that way. The current kids play the other games. They just don't subscribe to the tradition that these bowl games mean something. Let's be honest. Going to a bowl now is sort of like getting invited to the NIT in basketball. How many of our fans are excited about our 2 NIT Championships during the Odom era. It's basically a clash between eras. Traditionalists want to hold on to the Bowls. The kids are saying not so much. It happens.

Nil money should be tied to player availability. If you sit or opt out you lose a percentage.

 

[Cackmandu]

I find it really hard to believe the powers that be at ND allowed them to opt out, it’s a terrible
Look and they should reap what they sow!

 

[Uscg1984]

Lea when asked if they ever considered opting out of a bowl: "No, we love playing football here."

Drinkwitz taking a shot at the opt outs: “People say, ‘anytime, anywhere.’ I guess some people mean it [and] some people don’t,”

 

[18IsTheMan]

Kids don't care for the grind anymore. Can't play for a championship, well I'd rather sit in my room not taking classes and stare at my phone. Awesome life.

This is it. It's a generational problem.

It's undeniable that there's a link between the "everyone gets a trophy" generation and what we're seeing happening in college sports. There's no way to see it otherwise. The fusion of that generational mindset with the greedy pursuit of revenue has created the lethal concoction that is poisoning college football.

Everyone "deserves" a shot these days. There's a delusion that has clouded everyone's minds. You legit have 3-loss teams thinking they could win it all if they made the CFP. Whatever happened to taking your licks like a man?

When I was coming up there were winners and there were losers. If you lost, you lost and went out and tried to get better. You didn't b*tch, moan and pout about deserving another shot.

 

[JohnnySolo]

If you play a sport for the love of the game then you want to play another game. I'd give anything to run routes and catch passes again. Back then I would run routes and catch passes for anyone anywhere. Too bad I grew up in a 95% run oriented HS and era. No one threw the ball around in HS in the 90's.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

I find it really hard to believe the powers that be at ND allowed them to opt out, it’s a terrible
Look and they should reap what they sow!

The powers that be did (aka AD, School President) did not "allow" them to opt out, the powers that be are the ones who either decided to opt out, or gave their full blessing. The ND AD has gone scorched earth on the ACC. (Which is going to send realignment rumors and movement into overdrive, but that topic is for another day and another thread.)

 

[SILVERSPUR-rier]

The problem is ND will get away with it. Where the bowls next year should "opt out" of inviting ND to a bowl (to set an example), I am sure that a major bowl would still jump at a chance for ND to play. There is also no way NIL will become performance based, just like college coaching salaries won't be performance based. These are what have killed college football.

Although I did laugh where I read ND kept referring to the players as "student-athletes". They are your paid temporary employee's who may or may not go to classes (or at least not substantive classes).

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

The problem is ND will get away with it. Where the bowls next year should "opt out" of inviting ND to a bowl (to set an example), I am sure that a major bowl would still jump at a chance for ND to play. There is also no way NIL will become performance based, just like college coaching salaries won't be performance based. These are what have killed college football.

Although I did laugh where I read ND kept referring to the players as "student-athletes". They are your paid temporary employee's who may or may not go to classes (or at least not substantive classes).

No one should question this, a bowl committee, any bowl committee, are made up of community leaders and business figures. Don't think for 1 minute that they would pass up on having the ND boosters and alumni in their city for a weekend to inject a major financial boost.
This is why bowls are in existence.

 

[will110]

I really don't understand the mentality of today's players who opt out/quit/vote not to play in one more game. I thought it was about the "love of the game?"

 

[JohnnySolo]

"The Game" is get paid as much as you can for as little work as possible.