List of players sitting out their bowl game

[OrangeAfroMan]

TE Noah Fant - Iowa
DT Rashan Gary - Michigan
WR Kelvin Harmon - NC State
WR N'Keal Harry - Arizona St
RB Justice Hill - Oklahoma St
DT Ed Oliver - Houston
WR Deebo Samuel - South Carolina
CB Greedy Williams - LSU
G   Larry Williams - Oklahoma St



Add to the list if you know of others.

[Anonymous Coward]

Excluding or including injury? On the fence about including Bosa.

[MarqHusker]

will this list be longer than the list of players who are suspended or ruled ineligible?

[Kris60]

Add Will Grier and Yodney Cajuste from WVU to the list.

[847badgerfan]

When you join a team, you play for the team. Period.


The selfishness displayed by these kids is beyond further comment.

[OrangeAfroMan]

Add Will Grier and Yodney Cajuste from WVU to the list.

Wow

[OrangeAfroMan]

If I’m an NFL vet and my team drafts Grier, I’m making him wear WV’s bowl game t-shirt to every TV interview.  You’re the QB, man!

[bayareabadger]

When you join a team, you play for the team. Period.


The selfishness displayed by these kids is beyond further comment.

Then it's for teammate to be upset by, not third party observers whose sense of propriety is offended. 
People have a chance to not risk many thousands of dollars for the sake of entertaining others. They sometimes take it. (I'd point out the note you had about boating and life events, but I think that was a joke)

[bayareabadger]

If I’m an NFL vet and my team drafts Grier, I’m making him wear WV’s bowl game t-shirt to every TV interview.  You’re the QB, man!

I once went to a Camping World Bowl. I wish I'd sat that one out. 

[847badgerfan]

Then it's for teammate to be upset by, not third party observers whose sense of propriety is offended.
People have a chance to not risk many thousands of dollars for the sake of entertaining others. They sometimes take it. (I'd point out the note you had about boating and life events, but I think that was a joke)

It is a joke, and I use it a lot. My youngest is getting married on July 5th next year. The nerve!!

I can tell you that missing a game, for any reason, was not tolerated or allowed when I grew up. I also carried this with me to when I raised my own. If you join a team, you play for the team. There is no excuse (unless hospitalized or attending a funeral or wedding).

[847badgerfan]

I once went to a Camping World Bowl. I wish I'd sat that one out.

You made a bad decision. I hope you didn't pay for the ticket at least. 

[847badgerfan]

[Anonymous Coward]

I can tell you that missing a game, for any reason, was not tolerated or allowed when I grew up. I also carried this with me to when I raised my own. If you join a team, you play for the team. There is no excuse (unless hospitalized or attending a funeral or wedding).

But you see how that decision for an ordinary athlete at an ordinary playing level is obviously not the same thing, right? And recognizing that, you can't promise that you would have played "no matter what" if you were a college player in, say, Rashan Gary's situation, on the verge of being a millionaire in a game of vanishing significance, not too injured to play but not 100% either.
I know you think you would ("based on principle"), but you don't have the experiences and perspective to guarantee you'd feel the same. In fact, if your circumstances were theirs, you might not even consider this as a matter of PRINCIPLES in the first place. So long as that's possible, and it is, I think it prevents our worthiness to judge them for it.

• Besides: A better analogy for you would be business-related. You have a potential $10MM contract with a new client in the works. But they are easily spooked and require your every bit of attention to seal the deal. You also have a current client. You like them, have a relationship. It's small but satisfying. Unfortunately, now they are asking for more of your attention than ever before just when the potential $10MM client REQUIRES that attention instead. Do you tell your current client "Yes all you, no matter what because PRINCIPLES" and (very realistically) risk losing the $10MM contract or do you say "Please be a little patient, we'll address you as best as we can given our circumstances but for the next month, and the next month only, it will be somewhat less than what you are asking"?

By the way: I don't like players sidelining themselves for bowl games, either. Hate it, actually. But I'm in no position to judge and find forgiving them pretty automatic. So my dislike gets redirected from the players to the sport.

[847badgerfan]

It happens all the time.



I (and my team)  work more hours to make it happen. Every client "thinks" they are my only client, and they are treated equally. That's how it works. 



Get it done. You play the "game" with the "team" you signed up for. Whatever it takes. No excuses.