Official Opt-Out Thread 2021-2022 Bowl Season

[OHSportsFan]

Feels like a pre-Spring Spring game almost. Getting a glimpse of next year's team this year

I’m here for that. All we got left is trying to build momentum with the young guys. Time to turn the page.

 

[Thump]

I don't blame him. It's the smart move for kids with money on the line. Selfishly, though, it diminishes the enjoyment of bowl season considerably. For me, anyway.

Ditto.

 

[RuGettinIt]

I’m here for that. All we got left is trying to build momentum with the young guys. Time to turn the page.

If a dog is gonna bite, it will bite as a pup…..to soon???

 

[Onebuckfan]

It’s what we are about making pros, we aren’t in this for old Alma mater do or die. I think the singing of ‘Carmen Ohio’ can be a tradition that should be put away as a relic of an ancient and innocent time. tOSU and the players have always been in a symbiotic relationship and some think it is a parasitic relationship. It is life as a football factory which finally everyone involved in has acknowledged save Dabo the hypocrite.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

They owe us nothing

Do they not realize how many beers I have drank and how many times I yelled at my tv helping them win a game?

 

[Don Muenz]

And some folks have even sacrificed shoes to tv screens! Oh, the humanity!

 

[NFBuck]

This is nothing new or unexpected. Unless they are playing for a national championship or hoping to improve their draft ranking, no reason to risk it for draft eligible players. They owe us nothing and I wish them nothing but the best as they pursue their professional careers.

Oh, i agree. I'm not mad at the players one bit. Hell, I wouldn't be mad at them if they opted out the minute it becomes apparent a NC isn't in the cards. It is what it is. It's the smart move when life changing money is on the line. I don't like it...it just saddens me that the sport i used to love above all is changing. I get it, just selfishly as a fan it sucks and it's never gonna be the same.

Feels like a pre-Spring Spring game almost. Getting a glimpse of next year's team this year

Pretty much. But it sucks that we've reached a point where the Rose Bowl is now becoming simply a glorified exhibition lacking many of the best players. Oh well, I guess we'll always have the memories of Troy, Santonio and Teddy Ginn going ham one last time on ND in the Fiesta Bowl.

*Edit* Troy & Teddy we're back in 2006, but Santonio wasn't. So, obviously they don't apply, but you can bet Santonio would be sitting in today's environment.

 

[gmen6981]

And some folks have even sacrificed shoes to tv screens! Oh, the humanity!

Not to mention those of us helping to keep our local furniture merchants in business with the repeated trips to buy a couch.

 

[Don Muenz]

Not to mention those of us helping to keep our local furniture merchants in business with the repeated trips to buy a couch.

Welp, da Browns once bought a replacement Couch outta state, Kaintuck, if’n I ‘members rightly.

 

[JCOSU86]

So, for OSU it’s
Wilson
Olave
Garrett
Petit-Frere

Anyone else?

 

[Trevi]

Welp, da Browns once bought a replacement Couch outta state, Kaintuck, if’n I ‘members rightly.

And as I recall they abused the hell out of it so it broke way before it should.

 

[Don Muenz]

Kinda like my old La-Z-Boy.

 

[Bestbuck36]

And as I recall they abused the hell out of it so it broke way before it should.

 

[Don Muenz]

Welp, like the honeymooners’ license plate read, “Columbus today, Hot Springs tonight.”

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Feels like a pre-Spring Spring game almost. Getting a glimpse of next year's team this year

This is the way I'm looking at it. I am looking forward to having a peek into what 2022 might look like.