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I have routed for Brian since he was a freshman. Was proud when he and J.R. Read announced they were playing. Thomas was also a hero. The bowls are legit Georgia Bulldog Team games. All players signed on to play in every game if the coaches called their name. Players are demanding to be "paid". Yet the training, the game and practice experience,services that sculpt their bodies into great football machines is not available at any price and costs the power five teams starts around $500,000 per player and goes up. Schools guarantee scholarships for team members for 4, 5 and sometimes 6 years. Even is injured, players will get their education paid.
I am sorry and will probably PO some of the more "woke' out there but if a player refuses to play they are no longer are part of the team. All benefits, grants and other perks should end. No access to the weight room, medical facilities, nada. When signing grant & aid scholarship- do they still call it that- these issues should be carefully explained. Any player can leave the team and even transfer, no problem. But benefits must cease if absence is voluntary. It is refreshing to see Kirby has had a change of heart this year and such players will not dress out. But they should not be with the team at all. Not have use of any facility open only to team members No expenses to anywhere should be paid for tutors, advisors other than that available to any student.
I am not optimistic such issues must be addressed by the schools and NCAA and they have no stomach for such. I am sorry to say the college game we all loved will soon be no more.
PS Please do not raise the injury issue. In football, since grade school level ball, have numersous injuries every year, a very small percentage for life. But, more athletes are injured going to and from the games or from outside activities. Every year, former college football athletes are injured preparing for the invitational post season bowl games or for the several evaluational tryout programs More are injured in the activities. Life is hazardous. There are no guarantees.
These players have done their jobs for UGA. If the bowls are not playoff games they really don't matter. No player with 1-3rd draft grades should play in them. Time to do away with these meaningless games.
That has crossed my mind too.....Makes one kinda think that players are wanting to get out of there as quickly as possible
Players who opt out should be billed for the costs for the semester. Seems fair to me. If you are injured, you are excused. Otherwise, you have not lived up to your scholarship commitment. Same for suspended players.
This has become a BAD pattern under Kirby. I haven't heard not nearly as many players sitting out unlike the other teams' players are going to play in their bowl game. This says a lot about Kirby. As I stated before, Kirby should have won the National Championship when it was laid at his feet. Now, you didn't hire a SERIOUS offensive coordinator after Chaney left nor did he keep 1 of the state of georgia's best quarterbacks, in Justin Field, because you want to stay loyal to a quarterback that's not going to get you any closer to winning a National Championship. I would be surprised IF we beat Baylor. I have ZERO expectations that we will. I am willing to eat crow on this. WE ARE GOING TO SEE IF KIRBY WILL BE WORTH THE MONEY WE PAYING HIM.
Perhaps because you haven't bothered to do any research! Saban has been beside himself because he is dealing with the same problem.
I don't think Saban is dealing with it to the same extent as UGA. We are missing at least six (6) starters, seven if Swift doesn't play (which I don't expect him to). And Herrien and Blaylock played heavy minutes. I don't see the other schools in the non-CFB bowls with players sitting out to the extent that UGA guys are. This is embarrassing.
Obviously injured players can't play, although Reed even describes his injury as "minor" so I wonder just how bad it is. I'm thinking he doesn't even mention it if UGA is in the playoffs. Guys want to turn pro I still think could play in the bowl game. The risk of injury is low, but there is a risk so whatever. Cleveland (and anyone else) out due to academic problems, that's on them. In this day and age, no scholarship athlete should be flunking course. Take an incomplete or something for crying out loud.
I'm sorry, I do think Kirby has an internal problem. I'm not sure how or why it happened, but this team isn't as committed as he wants us to believe. When your permanent team captains are putting their own interests above the team's, that tells you EXACTLY what people are feeling like. And don't blame fans for not going to the Sugar Bowl. If he players don't think this game is important -- and they clearly don't -- there's no way fans, who have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to go watch. Last year, all of those receivers we keep talking about who are now in the NFL, they all played in the Sugar Bowl. Terry Godwin was a senior but he played. Now guys are looking for reasons to sit the game out, as if not playing this one game is going to be all the difference to where they get drafted
I sure hope Kirby and staff find a way to fix this and start recruiting guys who truly want to be Georgia Bulldogs, from beginning to end.
I understand players with high draft potential putting themselves ahead of the team. What really concerns me is those who are academically ineligible because I never hear about this happening at AL. Coach Saban sends a consistent message about the importance of graduating and suspended a player from playing in the Ole Miss game because he skipped class. Coach Saban constantly brags about the players on the team who have already graduated-15 in the recent Dec graduation.