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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2175033, member: 2651"] this is so laughably naive. You think people get all up in arms about a school restricting a transfer? Just wait until a school tries to revoke a scholarship for a player sitting out a bowl game. Not to mention, what the heck will it accomplish? The kid sitting out is already a high round choice. Are you suggesting the school is going to sue the player for the retroactive cost of the scholarship? Good luck with that. Kick the kid off the team after he has declared? You're only going to hurt your APR score and your ability to recruit. Most all high school recruits hope/expect to be draft picks. If your school gets the rep of spitefully lashing out at kids sitting out to protect their draft status, then that will be a very real deterrent in attracting elite high school talent. Almost everything about this system is tilted in favor of the schools. These kids come in and sacrifice their bodies and, in many (most) places get herded into easy majors for the express purpose of keeping them eligible. Coaches like Saban and Harbaugh push to get players medically disqualified for dubious reasons. Under performing players get pushed out to free up scholarship slots. They give their lives to football, while the schools make billions. Many of them will have injuries that will follow them for life due to the pressure to push through and stay on the field (look at the toradol abuse at schools like USC). Now a few guys stand up to this tilted system and decide to sit out a meaningless bowl game - which only exists as a vehicle for making everyone but the player more money - and I have to listen to wannabe athletes and fans who see athletics like a Disney movie whine about commitment to the team and a lack of heart and loyalty. Commitment goes both ways. If Fournette, alone, is bringing all these supposed eye balls to the game (which is what is posited, as the argument is that Fournette's absence means fewer eyeballs which means lower ad revenue [I find this highly dubious, but we'll go with it]), then compensate him for that. I bet he is more likely to play if there is a real commitment to him. [/QUOTE]

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