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Harris Gone

I wondered when stuff like this would happen (mid season departures vs skipping bowl games). Why risk injury when you have proven you are worth some big dollars at the next level? Now, if Harris is worth big dollars could be debated. But I don’t blame kids for thinking about life changing paydays.
Most of these guys have insurance. He can just as easily get hurt on his 3rd round pick rookie salary.
 
This type of stuff is only going to get worse every year.
Absolutely right! This is what the NCAA has turned everything into. It is only going to get worse. Guys are going to start opting out earlier than the 10th game. Some will start opting out after 6 games. College football is not worth watching anymore. But we all know people will continue to watch. This is their life.
 
I wondered when stuff like this would happen (mid season departures vs skipping bowl games). Why risk injury when you have proven you are worth some big dollars at the next level? Now, if Harris is worth big dollars could be debated. But I don’t blame kids for thinking about life changing paydays.
It’s that type of talk that got us into this mess.

In the lead up to the NIL era all we heard was: “do whatever’s best for you! Can’t blame a kid for looking out for himself!!”

But that line of thinking ignores the fact that no one is here by themselves:
  • There are coaches who spent years coaching the player up
  • Doctors/therapists who made sure the player was healthy and in top physical shape
  • Equipment managers/assistants/other personnel who basically gave the player anything they could ever need to play football
  • Teammates who helped push the player and fought alongside the player
  • Fans who (now and days) literally gave the player a revenue stream. Without fans supporting the program, he wouldn’t have access to any benefits that help him succeed
And opting out with more than a 6th of the season left essentially says: f**k everyone who got me here, I’m doing me!

It is, by definition, selfish.

Would any of us make a similar choice? Maybe, but that doesn’t make it any less selfish. And it certainly doesn’t make it admirable
 
I have zero problem when guys who everyone knows will be high first-round picks opt out of their bowl game. They're looking at tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed money that's as good as theirs as long as they make it to draft day healthy and uninjured. No brainer.

When guys like Jermari Harris do it, it's just kind of stupid and laughable. They should be taking every opportunity they have to show out in real games with NFL scouts watching. As it stands he's a mid- to late-rounder at best.
 
college football is heading toward an apocalypse… gonna get much more ugly going forward
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his continuing mission, to explore strange, new ways to lose
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