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I can't speak for everyone, but answer would not change. And I think we're closer than some realize to a kid sitting out a CFP game... The elite kids grow up wanting to play on Sundays not Saturday's, and CFB fans will never understand that
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indeed
using the numbers from my previous post; Ward has about $9MM guaranteed right now, could do nothing but risk losing it by playing and his mother recently lost her husband unexpectedly...all that and, by Urban Meyer's own account of the situation, the kid was STILL torn between playing and not playing up until a day or two before the game...but online superfans want to question the kids loyalty.
Amazing
It's his life, his body and his money. He has earned it.Fuck superfans, go get yours young man.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
It’s not a problem today because DW sitting out doesn’t affect the $$$$$ for the Cotton Bowl NCAA Big 10 or Bucks. What must terrify college ad’s if all the draft eligible Buckeyes and Trojans decided it was best for them to sit.
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So the adults shouldn't be punished for doing the same things that kids are chastised for? Gotcha.
Gotta love that POV, where the guys getting paid can do what they want, leave schools when they want with no penalty, but a kid transfers and he has to sit a year, if he looks out for his draft stock and sits a game, then fans go after him.
And a top bowl game is only played to pad the pockets of schools and the bowl sponsors, none of them give a good god damn about any of these kids. Fans can chant and pump their fists, but of a kid gets injurd HS forgotten in a blink of an eye and not one fan would pay his future bills, and look out for his financial future if there was an injury. And spare me the insurance BS because they won't pay near what an NFL salary would. Football players go to school for the same reason all kids go to college, to prepare them for their future profession.
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So I guess the legacy of Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffrey is sitting out a bowl game too. I can bet that Ward would haves no problem with their futures... And both of them were still drafted in the 1st round. For the fools who think that GMs care that much about kids sitting out a bowl game, there you go. If there's enough film,a team will take them.
Of course now will be the responses of the fanboys saying "if I was GM I wouldn't take him". Yeah, and you're the idiot who wouldn't be a GM for very long either
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Buckeye513
Stable Genius
It's a footnote that will be talked about until he runs his 40 at the combine. No one's going to care anymore by week 1.
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Exactly.
Part of this post is really poignant - Ohio State has the 3 douchenozzles they put on TV, but there is a growing contingent, especially online, of superfan wannabes who think they know more than the coaches, make ridiculous claims (like one guy claimed NFL teams were only at Ohio State games to check out Dwayne Haskins at one point this season) and other general stupidity.
Kids like Ward have done nothing wrong while at the school and are doing exactly what you'd hope a responsible adult would do and that's do what is best for him and his family. It's part of the maturation process. Ohio State will be just fine and they were....
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Never mind the 3 years of hard work, sacrifice, and good behavior.
He had the temerity to disappoint a sub section of the fanbase because he placed his own well being ahead of theirs and now they want to define his legacy.
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Mariotwins
Hall of Fame
I'm not gonna say he made the wrong choice but as this happens more and more I'm worried about what could be happen in the future.
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