Other healthy players quitting?
- Thread starter Mountain Man Hawk
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He’s a plant from the AD. It’s the only explanation.
Nearly every one of your posts is ripping on your fellow fans. That is claiming superiority.
Thanks for claiming defeat.
I don’t disagree with this. Just trying to state a point of view of a player who has a chance to be gagillionaire playing football, which nobody on this board can fully understand. I really don’t think the fan base would turn on KJ if he chose to sit the rest of the season out, especially considering that we have multiple capable back ups. If he plays tomorrow and blows out his knee, never being able to play football again….
He could blow his knee out any game, starting with game one. Understand the bowl game. And you could say the same thing for a player whose team is 10-0.
Playing game one and playing when your team is 10-0 means you are playing for something. That makes weighing pros and cons different than when your team has no more goals to achieve.
Holy out of touch Batman. Some of you cats are wildly out of touch. Incidentally I fully expect ISU to struggle mightily @UTAH who like Iowa has a coach that fans are tired of & to lose to KSU.
Fans are my problem. They really aren’t fans anymore..
The team, with how they played vs MSU and UCLA, the team seemed checkedbout.
We're never going to agree, so I'm not going to argue further.
I completely get and understand the "opt out" that players with NFL futures are doing.
But that said, it really takes away from the enjoyment of watching the remaining games knowing your best players won't be available to help finish the season.
With NIL, the transfer portal and now the playoffs expansion - Its become "either keep winning and in playoff contention, or its 'hello backups' for the last few - or more - games of the season(s)".
But that said, it really takes away from the enjoyment of watching the remaining games knowing your best players won't be available to help finish the season.
With NIL, the transfer portal and now the playoffs expansion - Its become "either keep winning and in playoff contention, or its 'hello backups' for the last few - or more - games of the season(s)".
Don’t blame the players; blame the system.
Uh, NO thats a poor analogy unless they don't get the money up front. At McDonalds you get paid by the week. You stop working you don't get money after that. Assuming most of the NIL $ is up front, then yes they should have to repay for breach of contract.
And checked in vs NW & Wisconsin, funny how that works isn’t it. Win you’re checked in, lose and you’re checked out.
I’m just glad it’s been the defense. At least we can blame PP now, who used to be blameless.
I enjoy watching people’s reactions
There will be plenty of opportunities across the country every year for the legal system to show I am wrong.
Choices are made by individuals regardless of any outside influence.
Could have been the sharps hammering Maryland hearing no JH.
Or, it could have been the sharps hammering Maryland after hearing a 4th string QB who formerly practiced with the scout team as a LB is starting.
I’m probably wrong but I believe that technically speaking, NIL is not a payment to play football. It’s payment to allow use of his name, image, and likeness. Has he actually breached that understanding?
I know it’s naive to think the payment isn’t for playing, but contractually speaking, it probably isn’t. So unless he says his name, image or likeness can no longer be used, I’m not sure he’s breached a contract.
But I do think his scholarship should end immediately. That was definitely given in exchange to play football.
What does Iowa have to play for???
Frickin Pinstripe Bowl?
Ferentz Fatigue is real.
This is certainly a grey area. As I've brought up before if this is money from the swarm "collective", then I'm not sure just what they are actually doing that really is "NIL" money. Is he making appearances? If not then they're just getting paid, regardless of what umbrella you try to hide it under. Even under "true" NIL if they are paid by appearance thats one thing. If its a lump sum up front for so many events, appearances, whatever, the yes I think he be violated the contract, if they have one.
Back in the 1890s into at least the 1920s, college baseball players sometimes played for 8 or 10 years. They'd move around the country, use a fake name, and enroll in one school after another.
In the 1930s, Sport Magazine, which was at least as popular as SI in its heyday, ran a headline that said, "Will Money Ruin College Football?" I have a copy of that issue from my dad's collection. The article was written by legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice.
Anyone who thinks college sports is suddenly corrupt has no sense of history, no sense of context, no appreciation for human nature.
Paying players, given the money in the college game today, was a no-brainer. That's not the problem. It's the lack of any rules to govern those payments. And that lands in the lap of the NCAA, the fools who put their heads in the sand and hoped the players would give up on this notion of fairness. The players didn't. The NCAA was totally unprepared. And now we have a mess. But it's not as new as some people think.
Your odds of winning the Powerball are the same as him ever playing professionally.
Yes, Harris quit. They’re couching it as an “injury”, but he’s done.
A lot of teams are playing with NO BOWL coming this season. You are spoiled. Fatigue is real for you. I'm ok with the old man. At least we aren't Debbie.
Nobody is being “forced” to do anything. But you have to admit that the expanded CFP has made the regular season less meaningful than before, and the transfer portal has made it so fewer and fewer players are trying to prove themselves on the field to their current coaches for future seasons.
