12-24-2017, 09:21 AM
"They only care about the money..."
That's kind of the reason most people bother getting up in the morning to go to work. I'm sure there's a few people who have some loyalty to their employers, but college football teams aren't these players employers unless they're coaching. Perhaps it is different if you grow up as a fan of the college team you play for and have deep roots in the community and so on, but many are recruited from out of town and college football is just a mere stepping stone on the way to making big bucks in the pros..I'd venture to guess that the majority see college football as nothing more than that. It's not as if there are thousands of employers just begging for people with degrees in African American studies or basket weaving degrees.. In fact there probably ought to be a degree program of professional football open to just football players where they can learn about the business end of professional football..heck, let anyone major in pro football studies except for the fact that there are only 32 potential employers for jobs unless journalism can be tossed in the mix and I suspect that the NFL really wouldn't want a whole lot of employees who really have a knack for mud raking and digging up dirt on the business of football..scratch that idea.
Anyway, back to bowl games..There's only a handful of bowl games that matter a gnat and the rest are just made up nonsense. Just how important is a bowl game with 2 4-8 teams that's only known purpose for existence is to fill up dead air time for broadcasters?
So your favorite college player skipped the ever important Who Gives A Rats Ass Bowl! Certainly he's never going to show enough rah rah rah once in the pro's.
That's kind of the reason most people bother getting up in the morning to go to work. I'm sure there's a few people who have some loyalty to their employers, but college football teams aren't these players employers unless they're coaching. Perhaps it is different if you grow up as a fan of the college team you play for and have deep roots in the community and so on, but many are recruited from out of town and college football is just a mere stepping stone on the way to making big bucks in the pros..I'd venture to guess that the majority see college football as nothing more than that. It's not as if there are thousands of employers just begging for people with degrees in African American studies or basket weaving degrees.. In fact there probably ought to be a degree program of professional football open to just football players where they can learn about the business end of professional football..heck, let anyone major in pro football studies except for the fact that there are only 32 potential employers for jobs unless journalism can be tossed in the mix and I suspect that the NFL really wouldn't want a whole lot of employees who really have a knack for mud raking and digging up dirt on the business of football..scratch that idea.
Anyway, back to bowl games..There's only a handful of bowl games that matter a gnat and the rest are just made up nonsense. Just how important is a bowl game with 2 4-8 teams that's only known purpose for existence is to fill up dead air time for broadcasters?
So your favorite college player skipped the ever important Who Gives A Rats Ass Bowl! Certainly he's never going to show enough rah rah rah once in the pro's.
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
