Players sitting out already
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This is among the reasons I’ve started backing away from buying season tickets, scheduling my whole weekend around Iowa football, following recruiting closely, and knowing the roster up and down.
There was a time 10-15 years ago when I could tell you ever player we were recruiting, every player who’d committed, and every player on the roster.
Anymore I just don’t care. I’m still a diehard fan and will watch games, and I’ll support the players we have, but this era of NIL, sitting out, etc has dampened the fire I used to have for college football.
There was a time 10-15 years ago when I could tell you ever player we were recruiting, every player who’d committed, and every player on the roster.
Anymore I just don’t care. I’m still a diehard fan and will watch games, and I’ll support the players we have, but this era of NIL, sitting out, etc has dampened the fire I used to have for college football.
A professional would not sit out games. And I do consider most of college football to be professionals now. They are paid accordingly.
I don't like it either but you can't really blame them with $50-$60 million guaranteed on the line.
No. There are talking heads spectating. Smith hasn’t said anything.
That's what insurance is for, and these "no longer amateur's" can damn well afford it.
I would have a hard time believing that schools wouldn't have "play" clauses in their rev share and/or NIL contracts with these players that stipulates that they play if they are healthy.
An insurance policy probably wouldn't cover even half of what JS would make and costs $$$ out of his pocket. His NIL deal is like $5 mill.
Again, I don't like it but I can understand him sitting out if he does. $50-$60 million is generational wealth. Nobody on this board has ever been looking at even a fraction of that kind of money. I'd bet if any of them did, they'd be singing a different tune. It's easy to rip on a kid when you're not the one who stands to lose tens of millions of dollars.
Well if the School is not smart enough to say barring verified injury by the medical staff Player X is by contract obligated to participate in all games and official Team functions Their Lawyers suck . This should be NCAA wide
Unless he does sit it out.Good ole sensational "journalism".
With the money he has coming what does he care about a few games worth of money.
If it's in the contract and he's found to be in breach, it's not just the money from unplayed games that would be owed, but typically other punitive damages as well.
Stop trying to defend your bait thread
In general, I believe if you're going to have "pay for play" um you have to play. If you opt out and decide not to play then you shouldn't get paid. Duh
If everybody on this board realized how much it costs them everytime one of these athletes "gets their's", and is smart enough to realize how that transaction works, I'd bet if any of them did, they'd be singing a different tune too.
I'll be back to see you when he does it, whether it is this week or the week after he will.
How many players are in the same boat of having nothing else to prove while staring at a guaranteed first round pick?
I don't recall what WR it was but we had a WR in the last few years or so who had an "injury" at the end of the season.
A healthy player who sits out/doesnt play should lose 1/12th of the money per game they miss from the money the school gives them.
PRetty easy to handle this situation.
The NFL has a set rookie wage scale. Every pick he drops is about $1 mil (at the top of the draft. 2nd half of the 1st round is about 500-800k depending on the spot).
I think it would be safe to say that there would be a couple teams who wouldn’t like it if he quit on his team because they were out of the playoffs. Could make him slide down a couple spots and lose out on a couple mil. IMO it would be very dumb for him to sit out.
There's very little chance Jeremiah Smith is not the #1 overall pick and there's zero chance he's not taken in the top 5.
NFL GMs and coaches do not hold it against top college players for sitting out games at the end of the season, they probably prefer it because it eliminates their chance of getting hurt and protects their pick.
If I'm a top-10 pick in the draft, I'll take that deal 100 times out of 100.
Sure because 10 ten picks most 1st round picks are going to get guaranteed millions. I think the best thing for these very good players is to have the end of career injury insurance.
You'd think that the guys writing these NIL contracts would be smart enough to write in play-to-pay incentives. You want to sit out the last three games and a bowl? Fine, but you don't get your final $1 million.
That's who I'm talking about, the guys going at the very top of the draft. And those insurance policies cost them a lot of money and don't come close to what they'd make if uninjured and drafted that high.
That would be great for recruiting. Take money away/sue the greatest WR in the history of your program. AKA not going to happen.
No player has ever been dinged by NFL teams for sitting out, and it’s not going to start now.
Fans/Boosters of O$U don’t care about anything left in this season other than Michigan. They likely won’t even accept a bowl invite.
So, there aren’t actually any players sitting out, just some people holding microphones talking about how it might happen?
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Yep, it's a non-story manufactured into news for the gullible. A "CBS Sports analyst" said this could happen. It is a nothingburger.
Nothing to gain? Jeremiah Smith is actively setting records that cement his legacy as the best WR to ever play for Ohio State, contending for the Heisman Trophy, and auditioning to be the #1 overall pick in the NFL draft.
Yea for meaningless bowl games. Nobody has sat out regular season games unless they are injured. There were a few who decided not to play in the 2020 covid season, but that’s not really a comparable situation. Besides, they opted out before the season. Not mid season.
Sitting out the last 3 regular season games when you’re still mathematically in the conference championship game hunt (and therefore playoff hunt with the automatic qualifier) would be catastrophically stupid. The literal definition of quitting on your team and a huge character red flag. Any GM would be a fool to not at least consider that a negative that he will have to answer for in the pre draft interview process.
Let's say you've been employed with a company for 3-4 years, making $100,000 a year (nice round number), and have just started a big project that'll take 4-6 months to finish up.
Another, bigger company reaches out to you and says they'll pay you 10 times what you're making now... $1 million a year... for doing essentially the same work.
They say you can either take the offer right now, give your notice to your current employer, and make the move. Or, if you'd prefer, you can stay on with your current employer and see that big project through to the end.
However, they're going to be watching and if there are any problems, issues, delays, areas of concern, etc., with that big project, with its results, or with your performance on it, they're rescinding the offer and offering the position to someone else.
What would you do? Would you stay with your current employer, stay loyal to your current co-workers, and see the project through to the end knowing you'd be risking the other job offer? Or would you give your notice and take the new employer's offer right then and there at $1 million a year?
Answer that question honestly, and you have zero right to criticize college players who are future high draft picks for sitting out games at the end of their seasons.
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In this scenario, I have an offer in hand and everything is 100% garunteed. Smith does not have an offer in hand and can still screw this up in many ways, both on and off the field.
I would leave but that is not a comparable scenario to Smith’s. A comparable scenario is a friend/family member setting me up for a job interview. I’m like 99% sure I’m getting the job so I just quit my current job before interviewing. While my connections are probably getting me this job, resigning without an offer is still dumb.
If Smith walks from tOSU right now he is 100% guaranteed to be a top-3 pick and most likely the #1 pick. You're kidding yourself if you think he's not. He's a high character guy, bought his grandmother a house with his NIL, and turned down an offer of $10 mill from Miami so that he could stay with his teammates at tOSU for his last year.
And either way, you're dodging the issue. Now you're saying Smith is dumb for leaving without an offer in hand. That wasn't your earlier point. Your earlier point was that Smith leaving his team and teammates would be a big character red flag for not seeing the entire season through.
But kudos for being honest and saying you'd leave and take the offer. We all would. That's exactly what these top-10 draft picks are doing... eliminating the risk of an injury that would cost them tens of millions of dollars.
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