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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4889043, member: 173"]
I'm really interested in hearing solutions to how to "fix it".  If I was a projected 1st/2nd round draft pick, I'd get a doctor to find a mysterious soft tissue injury that would keep me out of the bowl game if there was a financial penalty for sitting out.  The "best case" for the school is I get medically cleared by the school doctor and we smear the crap out of them as not caring about the athlete and clearing guys who shouldn't be playing.  Not sure how that ends well for the school, since it would be used in negative recruiting.  The idea the NFL will view that negatively and it would effect draft status is laughable, so that as a disincentive doesn't work either.

Pushing guys who are going to transfer to another school to play also creates a boatload of unintended consequences that the school isn't going to want to deal with.

While bowls might have some level of meaning in that there's financial incentives to play them for the schools, conferences, and TV networks - there isn't a huge incentive to many of the players.  Within the realm of what is reasonable, I don't see that being fixable.  There isn't a carrot big enough to incentivize players to play, and there isn't a stick that schools would dare use.

Bowl games are mostly stupid at this point; they're a vestigial feature of a system that doesn't exist anymore.  The only reason they still go on is because enough people want to pretend that isn't true that there's financial incentive to maintain a fiction that they "matter".   I doubt anyone involved wants to "change things to make them better", because the most likely outcome is the fiction gets destroyed and bowl games go away if we don't all just keep playing pretend everything is okay as it is right now.
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