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Georgia football winners and losers following College Football Playoff announcements
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Georgia football winners and losers following College Football Playoff announcements
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Expand the playoffs, but do it in a way that keeps those things that make college football special and unique, conference champs, bowl season and historic tie-ins, at-large invites. The last thing i'd want is to make the playoff the NFL light using things such as seedings, byes, home field advantage. Using those ideas this year's playoff would be OSU-Oregon (the rare example of a confeence champ which is really un-derserving) in the Rose. Oklahoma vs at-large Cinncinatti, in the Cotton. Bama vs at-large Notre Dame in the Sugar. And, Clemson vs at-large Texas A&M in the orange. Rose/Cotton winners in Fiesta, and Sugar/Orange winners in Peach. Then the final in a selected city. Set up some guidelines to maybe preclude an Oregeon situation, as well as the selection process for the at-large teams (keep the committee).
Nonsense.
The players can stay home after high school, dream about football, and work in the car wash.
Nobody made them sign up to represent their school and play football for their team.
Nobody is mad at the individual players. Everyone understands football is demanding. Everybody appreciates and honors and cheers for the players.
Everyone also knows how incredibly blessed the players are. First of all they get to play the best of all games at a very high level which is in itself a rare opportunity. They are rewarded with honor, all sorts of benefits, and a college education. They're given untold help and resources in developing their bodies and their abilities. They are tutored by the best of teachers and given academic help available to literally nobody else on campus. They also have a showcase for their talents should they be gifted enough to impress the NFL in which case they might make more money in a few years than a surgeon makes in a lifetime.
The players have earned a break? Give me a break, sir. Most people I know have been trying to keep their jobs or keep their businesses open in a tumultuous and uncertain business climate. Many are barely hanging on, many are going under. Most outside of the government and corporate worlds are worried about their family's financial and sometimes literal survival. Adults interested in football are also dealing with fear of a deadly illness and all the rest. Taking nothing away from the effort and sacrifices players make, their college lives are pretty cushy compared with the Bizarro Covid World lives of millions of Americans.
College football players signed up voluntarily to play football, not to take a break or opt out. Nobody made them do anything. Perhaps their contracts with the schools and teams are weak and should be reconsidered to include playing a full season in order to have scholarship for a full year?
Certainly there are several ways to look at the issue. I'm pretty sure you don't want folks telling you you're weak for holding the view you expressed, nor that your opinions are bunk and hogwash.
Go, Dawgs!
Connor, I thoroughly and completely disagree with your take on the opting out, I mean, quitting, on their team. That’s what opt out means, they quit. I posted in another section that I can understand they are concerned about their futures, but what about their concerns about getting hurt in the other 9 games this year and for those seniors that are projected to play in these so called all star games? To me and so many more, this speaks volumes about how they don’t want to play when it’s not for a championship. I wish every player was like Polkack when he played. He never did and wouldn’t have opted out, I mean, quit on his teammates or coaches. If universities opted out on players, their would be profound outcries against the schools. If players start getting paid, which they already do with their free scholarships, there needs to be a rule put in that if they opt out without being injured, they have to repay some of that money back to the schools. This opting out has to stop.
While you have a right to your opinion Connor and we, as fans, have a right to ours and don’t need to be told by a sports writer (?) how we should feel or be reprimanded like a child for having a difference of opinion. Telling hundreds of thousands of fans their opinion is weak seems pretty weak to me in its on right. Like some things just need to go unsaid, some things need to go unwritten. Go Dawgs!
Looking forward to leadership on the field Jan. 1, 2021 at Noon. The opt outs will be hoping not to be Elijah Holyfield on May 1, 2021.
I wish I could down-vote this article, for more than one of its segments.
Loser: College Football Playoff committee: It's easy to see how they favored Ohio ST, who hasn't earned or proven anything in 2020.
Notre Dame got "IN" over a one loss TA&M.
Looking a little further down the rankings - only shows how the committee's bias continues. Georgia lost to Alabama and Florida.
Oklahoma lost to 4-6 Kansas ST and 8-3 Iowa ST.
The committee has Oklahoma ranked higher than Georgia. I would like to hear their justification for that.
The spreads on the games being played at a neutral site is pretty much all you need to know about the rankings. Would TxA&M be a 7 point dog to Clemson? I understand OSU getting in as they would be favored over Okla and Florida and would be a double digit favorite over Cincinnati.
Evidently Conner thinks you are a bunch of losers. I wonder what would happen if all the so-called losers stopped reading his articles and commenting underneath? Just say'n. Not exactly a good way to grow a fan base.
If you think it's bad now, wait to see how horrible college football eventually gets if this proposed bill is introduced and passed to set up a government bureaucracy to force the schools to pass along revenue to the players and allow them to hire agents as as student athlete, etc. etc.. And, that's just a starting point. College football will no longer exist as we once knew it.
Everyone, has an opinion but I agree with the premise that no one twisted any players arms to sign on the dotted line. They could have gone out in the workforce and starting earning income.
They have a right to opt out. If you're truly physically hurt, I get it.
The rest could be hogwash too. Who knows??
The Anti-"Finish the drill."
Reading these comments, I can see that I am not the only one who objects to players on scholarship quitting on their teammates/coaches, and fanbases.
I think we need to be VERY careful with playoff expansion. College football is the best game around and I certainly don't want to see it morph into something much less interesting (like other sports with a regular season that doesn't amount to much).
The selection of Ohio State and Notre Dame were victories for the establishment. In times like these, where we are getting glimpses of just how powerful the establishment is , did anyone really expect two teams that epitomize college football royalty like Ohio State and Notre Dame to get overlooked?
One positive regarding opt outs for Georgia: We get to see a closer version of what our '21 Dawgs will look like.....the same Dawgs who will take the field against Clemson in a few months. Hopefully, this pandemic stuff will be a thing of the past by then and we can have packed stadiums again the way God intended.
Go Dawgs!
Why are people are so quick to forget that the full ride scholarship these guys are receiving costs a lot of money? I recieved both my masters and bachelors degree from UGA, I know how much it costs to attend school there not to mention normal living expenses that a normal college student has. I am still paying on the student loans it took to earn those degrees. Lets be real- college football players have a pretty sweet gig. They should be required to play in every game or pay back a portion of the scholarship they signed for. Not to mention there is nothing honorable about quitting on team mates ever I don't care how you slice it.
I believe we are in agreement with most (possibly, all) of your comments. My only quibble is, Do you think ohio state would be any more deserving in an 8 team playoff? 5 game regular season, really?
So it's ok for you to express your opinion, and criticize others for their opinion connor? Can you say HYPOCRITE?
Could only vote up once, but can give 2 👍👍
I absolutely love this time of year, it reminds of me how much a segment of the college football fanbase maintains a twisted, sordid relationship with the players.
I am nearly 100% convinced that it has nothing to do with the fact that most of those headed to NFL, or even trying to make it, are African American. Nothing at all to do that.
It also reminds me that said fanbase has little to no influence or impact on the decisions, outcomes, and lives of these young men, which is how it should be.
Conner Riley: "Georgia is going to have players opt-out of the bowl game. This isn’t a new trend, as we saw the likes of Andrew Thomas and Isaiah Wilson do so last season."
Conner, this didn't happen ten years ago, so yes this is a new trend. Ten years ago players played in Bowl games and then went to the combine. In relative dollars it's about the same as today, so those of us who think there's still no "i" in team are not losers!