Why stop at the bowl game? If your team is out of contention and you have millions on the line, why not quit the team with 3 games left? This trend is garbage

So you think players with multi million dollar careers on the line should risk that to play in one last game for your entertainment huh? Cause that's what you would do? Riiight.

The NCAA shouldn't buy the players insurance, the players should buy it themselves.

If the players don't have cash for a policy, they agree to give up a % of their salary should they be drafted.

It isn't that complicated, but I'm sure someone will try to over-complicate the issue with nonsense regulations.

You can't pledge future wages as security for a financial obligation.

A work-around I toyed with once (in the theoretical sense...not that I had the ability or desire to pursue it...) was a specialty lending/finance company providing loans to likely soon-to-be professional athletes. The inspiration for the idea was the osu memorabilia sales thing. What if instead of selling those items, the players pledged those assets as collateral for a loan?

With the insurance situation, what I think you could do is borrow the money to pay for the policy, but then pledge the policy itself as collateral for the loan. There shouldn't be anything controversial about that from a legal perspective since insurance policies are provided as collateral all the time.

What I never sat down to figure out was how NCAA compliance would look at those things. My guess is they'd be OK with insurance but not the memorabilia.

Why should the players have to pay, especially since the bowls are not a part of the schedule. The Bowls are additional games where where the NCAA profits off of the games. The college football playoff is one thing and the sun bowl is another. I am cool with it either way, if the players have to pay, they should be given assistance.

I don’t understand this logic...whatsoever. Their hard work throughout the off-seasons is what’s giving them the ability to be drafted. If the last game is the camping world bowl, the godaddy bowl, the charmin extra soft bowl, Trojan entenze bowl, maxi pad soak’em up bowl, idc. If you aren’t competing for a NC and you’re a top 1st-3rd round pick do you risk MILLIONS to play one more game “with your brothers”? Hell no.

Most of these guys come from pretty poor backgrounds. How many guys getting drafted have lived a wealthy life up until now? My guess would be 2% or less. If you play another game, the risk for injury absolutely goes up!! Have you ever take a statistics course??? I don’t blame these guys a single bit for skipping bow games. I would do the exact same, and for any other person on here to say they wouldn’t is either lying, or just plum dumb. You work that hard your entire life for one goal- the money. Brotherhood is all good and well until you rip up your ACL and get drafted in the 6th round when you were a projected 1st-2nd round pick

You obviously do not understand how these policies work, they are easy to purchase, but if you be
I eve the fine print and the subjective information is not willy-billy, you are lost. These policies are for career ending, never play again injuries. You want insurance on where you are drafted, well, use the Vegas line for your insurance.

These policies are very cheap, because the fine print is very fine and hard to collect on.