(01-05-2021, 10:11 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(01-05-2021, 09:59 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: Why should these players risk their futures for a meaningless game? 

The schools don’t care about the players at all so why should they?

Athletes today aren’t selfish. They’re just learning from other players mistakes.

Meh, I understand that argument. However... Just ask all the NFL players who had lots to say about them abandoning their brothers... their brothers who also have careers after this "meaningless" college game. For a lot of the others though it'll be their last game ever and this is the memory they'll have. Getting beaten like a drum by a team that wasn't even better than them.

It IS selfish, there's no way around that. They put themselves above the rest of their team.. which is by definition selfish. Do I blame them? Not really. But at the same time, there's nothing wrong with calling them out for it.