TE Payne Durham opt out
I'm not sure Purdue should be in this game. Yea they won their division, but the team playing today is not the that team.
Can you imagine being a Purdue fan who spent a few $thousand to take their family to that game only to discover the opt outs?
The bowls have been awesome this year. Just a few stinkers.
O'Connell. Jones and Durham all opted out...that's 90+% of their offense. HC is gone and takes key assistants with him. The "Game HC" is the departed HC's brother who is gone after this game. It's tough enough to recruit football players to Purdue...this fiasco will make it even more difficult. Plus the B1G looks ridiculous after the beatdown. It was all very predictable, and the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of their idiot AD.
I haven't watched any yet. I'll watch the Rose like I watch the Blue White game.
Are you hoping they don't tackle and don't keep score?
You're something else. I'm pretty sure that 99% of the board will be taking this game seriously.
I agree. They will be. Most here still pretend the bowls matter when we already know Georgia and TCU are playing for a title. But our guys are gonna get swag so sweet.
Yet you are in every thread for a bowl game spouting your nonsense. Just shut the hell up for the Rose Bowl. Go away permanently. Let everyone else enjoy the in game thread without your bull shit.
If only in bowl game threads when I'm mentioned or people say something unrelated to the game.
But no in all seriousness I have no intention on posting in that game thread. I won't be home. I'll just comment afterwards if people overreact. Especially if we lose and they start rambling nonsense about firing Franklin. After this year he gets 2023 at the very least to best Michigan and/or Ohio State. I'll take 10-2 without beating them for a couple years before I get back on the fire him train.
I don't blame the kids. I blame the NCAA/rules.
But the contract ends prior to the bowl game as the semester is over.
If the semester is over how are you going to tell them they have to play if they're no longer enrolled? It doesn't make sense.
A financial penalty could be imposed for breach of contract. What do you think happens if everyday citizens breach a contract? Like exiting a lease agreement leaving a landlord without a tennant for a few months.
Give it a rest. It’s not professional ball and just because you are mad when kids sit out doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
I'm watching the Cotton Bowl. Stadium looks full, Tulane players/fans are going crazy, and players/USC fans are somber. Don't they realize this was just like a spring game?
But they aren't breaching it. They fulfilled it. They finished the season and the semester. A bowl game is not on the season. It's a reward nothing more.
Imagine if it was a playoff game and they got the opportunity to prove they were the best team in the country how much bigger that game would have been.
