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Kids are given scholarships to play football when the football games are scheduled. If they choose not to play, their pay is taken away.

That's how it works in the world we all live in.

The kids skipping bowl games don't care what penalty there is for doing so, because they're gone anyway.  By pulling their scholarship and the timing of the bowl season, you'd simply be motivating them to stay home spring semester.

So what's the penalty exactly?

(Some) People talk about wanting to pay players. They already get paid in the form of a scholarship, which includes tuition, academic assistance, training, housing, food and, now, cost of attendance.

Focus on the last five items in that list. There is the penalty for abandoning your responsibilities and for abandoning your teammates.

Actions have consequences. Welcome to reality.

Maybe, but shouldn't there be some consequences for schools enjoying the largess of off the work of their players while refusing to share the profits? 

this is the best idea I've heard ITT. Redshirts should absolutely be allowed to play in bowl games and not count towards their eligibility. Problem solved.
Guys looking to go to NFL are protected, young guys in need of playing time and experience get it. Win win all around.

I kind of like it, but my issue is what is the point of letting them play if you don't play them?  Then it really turns into an NFL preseason game, where you are exclusively using it to run the 2s and 3s out there to get a look at them, and I don't have a ton of interest in that.

I still don't see how MSU-LSU in a Citrus Bowl is any more of an "exhibition" than MSU-Rutgers was last weekend?  Or truly how UM-OSU was for the Michigan players?  You are playing for nothing other than pride, and the fact that it counts on your record.  Again, I can't blame the players.  The point isn't to blame the players or figure out how to stop them, but how to make this work for fans.  People keep saying nobody is watching those lower tier bowls anyway.  Well (a) Yes, enough people are that they are profitable enough to keep expanding; and (b) Fournette sat out the Citrus Bowl last year.  If the Citrus Bowl is "lower tier" than what isn't?  Just the NY6 games?

I honestly enjoy the bowls.  I don't much watch the mid-major matchups, but if 6-6 Texas and 7-5 Arizona are playing in the Cactus Bowl, I'm watching that, and while we call them "exhibitions" we play them like they are real games, and I don't want to lose that.  I fear that's what will happen with the redshirt rule.

I like the idea of letting redshirts play in the bowl.  

Agree, that's a good idea.  It doesn't solve the problem of players not playing in the bowl, but it does mitigate the distaste somewhat.

utee... I'll watch a crappy Texas team.  =)

utee... I'll watch a crappy Texas team.  =)

You've had plenty of opportunity over the past 8 seasons that's for sure.