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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 2437361, member: 1572"]
Hey there are plenty of things wrong with college sports, the NCAA etc. Now you're starting to branch out into other areas when you talk about coaches leaving etc.

My dispute here is more about the notion that bowl games are exhibitions and also that when a QB decides not to play that it really hurts his team.

In terms of bowl games, I watched nearly all of them after Christmas Day and basically each one was played with plenty of intensity.  The winning teams were fired up and took it very seriously.  Imagine the cyber space that would go unused here if nobody on this site talked about SU being bowl eligible?  I went to Dallas/Philly yesterday.  That was an exhibition game.  Bowl games are not exhibition games.  Not by a long shot. Just because some SU fan has no interest in a particular bowl game doesn't mean that's the same for the participants.

When a top level QB doesn't play that lets the whole team down.  The likelihood that a QB would have an injury that would materially alter his draft status is probably one in ten thousand and that risk could easily be insured against for one game.  But heck if the player is that worried about such risk then why was he playing in November?
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