OT- Kenneth Walker to the draft

Fewer college football games? Hell to the no.

Counterpoint — Kenneth Walker WOULD have played if this was part of an extended playoff even though it probably would have been a worse matchup.

FWIW - There are strong indications that Kenny Pickett won’t be participating for Pitt in this game either.  That would be 2 Heisman finalists skipping this game.

EDIT - I have been informed that the scenario above would only involve ONE Heisman finalists….. sorry for the error.

I mean, players would still sit out the bowl games where there wasn't a clear chance to claim a title.  MSU isn't going to be claiming anything with a win or a loss against Pitt, and so Walker would still have skipped it and gotten ready for the draft.

Non-playoff bowls should be viewed as basically a very early preseason game for the next year.

I am not being aggressive when I ask this but please tell me how the Peach Bowl would've mattered in the pre-BCS system?  The reality is that games that didn't have possible National Champion implications then didn't really matter more than these games do now.  The only difference is that the players realized their worth and have decided that the cost/benefit of playing in the game isn't in their best interest.  I can't fault them.  Times have changed.  The college football  that we grew up with 20/30/40 years ago isn't coming back

Or expand the playoff.  Which is what will happen.  Then the big bowls will be playoff games.  Coudl do the idea of have the whole traditional old school bowl season, then one more National Championship game BCS style after it.  But you would still end up with some 3 loss team in a NY6 bowl that knows it can't make it to the final game going up against a team with everything on the line and that would create great imbalance.

I think the best idea would be, you know, let the players unionize, then make it part of their collective barganing agreement that they have to play less they face financial penalties or something.  But instead they'll expand the playoff.

Outside of a few games the bowls never mattered. How is that different than today?  It’s just players finally realized the risk and that sitting out to avoid injury won’t hurt their draft status

If the playoff is expanded, I think all or almost all other bowls will die. It'll be March Madness vs. the NIT, where 12 teams compete and have national viewership while the other teams play an extra game for fun if they want to.

Eh, probably not.  Pickett will likely not play, so both teams will be pretty hampered I imagine.  Gonna be a lame bowl game.  I think tickets are going for like 20 bucks right now or something?

I know it's supposedly up in the air, but Pickett is going to sit out.  He would be silly not to.  Projected 1st rounder, heisman finalist, playing in an exhibition game so some suits make more money for themselves that he won't see.  Why would he play?

And the bowls created this system, so it's going to continue and they'll have to take their own medicine until they let players negotiote playing in bowls for money, or, they'll expand the playoffs so the NY6 bowls are all playoff games.

Your post is fine.  it is draped with empathy for little bro, and regret at the hard providence state is dealing with.  Really, quite touching.  

Thanks neighbor for reminding me of that bowl game against Florida......?

Is your avatar picture from The Game this year taken from your seat?

If Pickett doesn't play the excitement for this game is pretty weak. 

Why would you want to force them to play a de facto exhibition game, when they’re already planning to move on after the season?  This makes perfect sense for a guy like Walker.

If Pitt's QB doesn't opt out, it will be fun watching the Fighting Narduzzis beat Sparty.

And that is perfectly fair.