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Topic: List of players sitting out their bowl game

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MaximumSam

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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #210 on: December 20, 2018, 05:32:33 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on December 20, 2018, 12:56:15 PM
If injured, or if the coaches decide to sit them, yes. It's not their own decision, and if it was, they'd be gone anyway.
That's because the universities don't make much money on spring games
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #211 on: December 21, 2018, 05:04:33 PM »
except for the one in Lincoln NE
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #212 on: December 22, 2018, 11:47:10 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on December 13, 2018, 11:29:28 PM
Yep. People of good character do not turn their backs on their responsibilities. When you make a commitment, you honor it, and if you back out of that, you're selfish. It's black and white.
Likely the best post on the entire forum.
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #213 on: December 22, 2018, 11:51:28 AM »
Quote from: SuperMario on December 22, 2018, 11:47:10 AM
Likely the best post on the entire forum.
As long as this holds true, we argree almost every coach is not a person of good charecter. Glad that’s black and white. 
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #214 on: December 22, 2018, 03:57:40 PM »
I think there is more good than bad in that business. But, the bad ones are REALLY bad.


Coaches are hired to eventually be fired, and they all know it. Some leave before it happens. Many more don't.
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #215 on: December 22, 2018, 04:52:45 PM »
It's really just the sense of entitlement. Colleges want the benefit, but they don't want to pay the costs.  If amateurism is what we live by, then the colleges should support players sitting out once they are ready to be professional.
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #216 on: December 22, 2018, 05:19:30 PM »
If they are ready to be professional, they should just leave. You're on your own, kiddo pro. Go shop at Kroger for your food and work out at the Y like all the other Joes.
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #217 on: December 23, 2018, 12:54:33 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on December 22, 2018, 11:51:28 AM
As long as this holds true, we argree almost every coach is not a person of good charecter. Glad that’s black and white.
I think it's just a matter of coaches having to take chances on kids.  They don't want to, and they can be successful up to a point without doing it, but you can't go 7-5 every year with nice boys and keep your job.  So you start taking the kids who seem redeemable or the ones that are good at hiding their warts, then get blindsided by their behaviors.  Then you act wise to it all and try to go with the non-violent offenders who "only" smoke weed and have 2 kids, etc etc.
Sign innocent kids who try real hard and lose your job in 2 years, move down 2 levels and go 10-2 every year at Valdosta State, or do what everyone else does and try to win something special before it all goes to hell.
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #218 on: December 23, 2018, 12:56:05 AM »
This is why I said none of us would even be decent HCs at a helmet school in that other thread.  There's so much peripheral BS, and plenty more that we don't even know about, that the Xs and Os would become irrelevant.  
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #219 on: December 23, 2018, 09:24:07 AM »
there are plenty of good coaches out there

fine characters

plenty of good players as well

it's just that we concentrate on the bad

and the people we're talking about on this thread are not horrible, just selfish and trying to protect themselves
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #220 on: December 23, 2018, 09:37:56 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 23, 2018, 12:54:33 AM
I think it's just a matter of coaches having to take chances on kids.  They don't want to, and they can be successful up to a point without doing it, but you can't go 7-5 every year with nice boys and keep your job.  So you start taking the kids who seem redeemable or the ones that are good at hiding their warts, then get blindsided by their behaviors.  Then you act wise to it all and try to go with the non-violent offenders who "only" smoke weed and have 2 kids, etc etc.
Sign innocent kids who try real hard and lose your job in 2 years, move down 2 levels and go 10-2 every year at Valdosta State, or do what everyone else does and try to win something special before it all goes to hell.
I meant because many abandon their teams for the bowls. Their responsibilities break before the kids’. Sometimes they even raid their former coaching staffs.  
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Re: List of players sitting out their bowl game
« Reply #221 on: December 23, 2018, 09:47:11 AM »
from this week in Husker history:

1933: Nebraska’s Dana X. Bible becomes president of the American Football Coaches' Association, and the group decides to investigate “unfair” firings of coaches.
 
1948: Pay for play? Nebraska coach George “Potsy” Clark says it's counterproductive.
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