If you want to go by your description, again, why single out the Sun Bowl? they are all meaningless, made for television exhibition games. Yes, these poor players. They have to stay in luxury hotels for a week, eat like kings, attend free events and be coddled and catered to. Not saying they do or don't deserve it... it's a nice reward for a good season and being a d1 scholar athlete is hard work, but if you want to talk real $$$, it's a hell of a lot more than a playstation and some headphones.

Agree it's no different. But I don't like either thing. They're both a sign of the times: me first.

If I was offered my dream job and had a chance to significantly improve my salary, I'd be gone in a heartbeat, no matter what commitment I've made to my co-workers. And they would do the same. Sorry if that comes across as selfish, but I've learned that if you don't look out for #1, nobody else will.

You may not like the current state of affairs, but you can't criticize McCaffrey and Fournette for doing what they did. [/QUOTE]Hard to argue with looking out for #1. You're wrong, in that people will criticize, but that comes with the territory. Everything anyone does, anywhere, will be second guessed. But still it's all about #1. I compare it to someone who got a job at 'X' company 35 years ago to one that got one yesterday. Loyalty is a two way street, and I don't really see it much from either side anymore, at least in the workplace.



Thanks for bringing your personal vendettas here to this thread. Not relevant here IMO, but I am curious to why so many hate on the Athens prosecutor?!!


Not sure what you mean by this. Is every bowl except for the playoff games meaningless? Is the Sun bowl the worst? Who gets to be the judge of what is worthy, you? Point taken, but this is one of the original bowls, so it predates the proliferation that so many people hate on. Why is the Sun Bowl so bad?


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There is a risk/reward component to almost every major life decision.

There was an interesting article on bowl prep in today's The Record.

From what the article said,some coaches consider the pre-bowl practices almost as important in developing underclassmen for the next season as getting ready for the actual bowl game.

Looks like some schools do pay for the policies:

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17328541/...

Even with these insurance policies I bet it's just as hard to collect on it as it is for a guy like me to get a busted car paid for.

As an interesting window into these policies, Jaylon Smith was mentioned as a prime reason for players skipping bowls. He is also mentioned in the article as having received $900,000 from insurance.

Yup - per the article:

"Say Jaylon Smith makes it through last year’s Fiesta Bowl, and goes fourth overall to the Cowboys, who clearly liked him a lot. He’d then be slotted a fully-guaranteed four-year, $24.96 million deal. Post-injury, he was taken 36th by Dallas and signed a four-year, $6.49 million deal with $4.52 million guaranteed. So that’s a loss of at least $18.47 million, and potentially as much $20.44 million."

But he did get $900,000 - or 5% of his loss back. As someone mentioned above, it is like getting money for a wrecked car - pennies on the dollar.