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re: Expected bowl game opt outs

Posted on 12/21/25 at 2:15 pm to
Posted by TrapperJohn
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
12164 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 2:15 pm to
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Add West Weeks


Posted by LSU82BILL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Member since Sep 2006
10856 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 3:07 pm to
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It is past time to do away with these bowl games.


I loved the old bowl game system. I thought the old 4-team playoff was great too. But then the bowls got diminished by opt outs. The 12-team playoff helped fix that problem. On the flip side, the CFP has rendered all of the non CFP bowl games to be junior varsity games.
Posted by EST
Investigating
Member since Oct 2003
18230 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 3:32 pm to
If those players are being paid - they should be playing.
Posted by SA4LSU
AZ
Member since Sep 2005
4804 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 3:47 pm to
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I think its officially time to stop the tradition.


More like choose the right players to represent those numbers would be my response at first glance. But then again the whole landscape of the sport has changed. That has to be accounted for.
Posted by DonJuanDaMiles
San Diego, CA
Member since Feb 2014
1236 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 4:55 pm to
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Kids get scholarships and skip class all the time. They even quit going altogether; the school does not ask for their money back.


So now you’re changing the goalpost? I’m establishing they get paid by scholarship and by NIL they get for competing for that school in that sport. If they don’t compete and have their likeness on display and make bowl appearances etc, they don’t get paid.
Posted by DonJuanDaMiles
San Diego, CA
Member since Feb 2014
1236 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 4:58 pm to
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Would you accept a job with no salary and only a per diem? That's about what the scholarship, housing and meals add up to based on the millions the university gets year to year. The education "compensation" myth is long dead. Housing and food are paid by taxpayers and no longer an accepted means of compensation in major college sports. At this point its a budgeted in expense labeled "the cost of doing business". Pennies to the university


What myth? Tuition, housing, and meal plans all have a dollar value. I’ll tell the bank about that myth and ask for my student loan money back.
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