Miami coach Mark Richt has taken a stance against National Football League draft prospects skipping bowl games to begin draft preparations, a stance that sets him apart from some other college coaches who have been asked about the issue this week. They would, however, have plenty to lose.
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McCaffrey and Fournette apparently want to avoid the fate suffered by Notre Dame’s Jaylon Smith, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in the Fighting Irish’s Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio State after the 2015 season.
A more forthright explanation would have read: “I have decided not to play in the Sun Bowl because putting my pro career at risk in a meaningless game would be the very definition of dumb”.
Do college players have an obligation to their teammates to finish the season? Makes sense to me.
The argument I made in favor of Todd Gurley accepting his suspension and sitting out the remainder of his college football career was a simple cost-benefit analysis. You don’t become an athlete to sit out. And it makes you rightly question what kind of teammates they are. “[He’s] been a leader to this team through the easy times and tough times”.
And this is exactly what McCaffrey, Fournette and Linwood are doing. Wide receiver D.J. Chark said, “We support him”. There has been speculation that Fournette wanted to compete one final time for LSU, but coaches and trainers have advised him to rest after playing injured all season long. If Leonard was a 100 percent he would be playing with us.
Those years of football were the greatest moments of my life.
“There’s a hot topic, and people, they ask me like I’m going to shed some light on it or revelation, you’re talking about a lot of people”, Harbaugh said. He’s a great Tiger and we are forever indebted to him. He instead was taken in the second round by the Dallas Cowboys with the 34th overall selection, but even Smith has said that he didn’t regret the decision to play and that “with everything I’ve been through, if I could go back to January 1, I’d play again”. There were 18 bowl games the year that Christian McCaffrey was born (1996).
Some of us will watch the Sun Bowl, if we watch the Sun Bowl, by casually glancing at a TV in a sports bar. Running Back. They’re not under contract; they are not paid; they are not employees. Lattimore tweeted: Haven’t had the pleasure of meeting [Fournette] or [McCaffrey] but by all accounts are great guys. He’s executive director of the Sun Bowl, the one Christian McCaffrey’s going to miss. “He was hurt earlier this year so I am sure that weighed on his decision”. McCaffrey’s Cardinal are ranked No. 18, and are 9-3 heading into a bout with unranked University of North Carolina.
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“I think it’s sad, personally”, said Richt, whose Hurricanes will play West Virginia in the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando on December 28.
