re: After listening to Coach Stingley on OTB...

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I've yet to see a player have their draft rankings make that kind of jump by playing the last couple games of the season.

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There is a long list of guys who played great in the last game or two of the season and rocketed up the draft boards. Many people credit Jamarcus Russell's Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame as pushing him to the top of the draft.

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Playing an extra two games doesn't do much for him.

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LSU has 3 games left.

And the very next game would give Marshall the chance to go up against a first round cornerback and show what he can do against NFL caliber corners.

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Training for an extra month and improving his 40 time by .05 seconds would do him wonders.

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Jefferson finished playing on Jan 13 last year and then went to the combine and blew people's expectations on his 40 yard time. Guess he didn't need to quit on his team at the end of November.

pass something saying early opt outs pay back school cost.

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But as a coach it’s your job to keep the season relevant so that doesn’t happen.

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THIS. I don't really blame marshall. The dude is a 1st round talent who's proved he can be a true WR1. This is on O for not being able to give him a good enough reason to stay. I don't think I've heard "one team one heartbeat" since before the natty.

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The question of the day is:

What will cost the player more money, missing three weeks of running around cones to get ready for the combine, or having your draft stock fall because you quit on your team?

If a player just tumbles 5 of 6 slots that could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Is that worse than running the shuttle run at 3.98 instead of 3.93?

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I think you’re missing the point of my post. The question to ask is not whether the loss of draft stock from quitting is worth the extra combine training. The real question is whether these kids will lose any draft stock for quitting at all.

Until the NFL starts seeing these guys turn into “problem” players, I would argue the answer is no.

I don’t like the trend either, but the reality is that there’s no evidence that the NFL cares if a kid quit on their college team.

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As an NFL exec I would factor that in when deciding who to draft knowing that some guys have shown that they will quit when the team starts losing.

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They are paid really well to play in the NFL

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Y’all put way to much weight on this. NFL teams don’t care if you are good. No GM is passing on a guy in the 1st or 2nd round who checks all the boxes but didn’t play the last two games of the year.

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Tyrann Mathieu fell to the third round after being dismissed from LSU and missing a year. And his last year was one of the best ever for a defensive player in CFB.

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I'm not a fan of expanding playoffs.

We already have a hard enough time finding a worthy 4th seed that never seems to matter.

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A 4-team playoff is retarded when you have 5 major conferences. The fact that you could have 5 undefeated teams vying for 4 spots is reason enough to expand the playoff to 8. Much better to have a round of games involving a couple teams that may not belong than to have teams that do belong left out.

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checks stats from last game

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First three games with Myles:
424 yds
7 TD
23.4 YPC

Last four games without Myles:
307 yds
3 TD
10.8 YPC

Huge drop off.

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Great philosphy to live by and teach your children:

"Okay son, when you are in a good situation, give your all. But as soon as things look bad, run away and quit."

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College Football at LSU isn't a game. It's a business. Playing at LSU is like a job. Personally, when my job is great and I'm getting great returns I stay. When my job starts to suck I look for another one. You don't owe anything to your job. You owe everything to your family. And right now Marshall is making the best decision for his family. He can never play another down for LSU and has the ability to set his family up for life. He is taking the safe play and cashing out while he is up. I will never fault a man for making a decision to do that.

And if my kids learns that one of their major priorities in life is to put their family first and take care of them, then that is something I can hang my hat on at the end of the day.

So the answer isn’t for LSU (or any other team dealing with players quitting) to get better. It’s to change the rules to allow a large number of above average programs to “compete” for a championship.

Or, when someone gives you a microphone and the platform to comment on players opting out, the people with the platform can call them quitters and stop coddling them by saying they 'opted out'. I don't know, maybe the cold water of reality would help the issue.