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FSUKW wrote:Derwin James will skip the bowl game.
I was pretty vocal about it when Christian McCaffrey skipped last year and Dalvin Cook did not. I do not agree with it.
Second question: Should he be allowed to be on the sideline cheering for his team? I say no since he is 100% healthy and letting his team down in my opinion.
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FSUKW wrote:I still don't agree. They get a full ride scholarship. Does that allow them to pick and chose which games they play in?
I absolutely believe they are letting their team down.
I don't care if they are putting career on the line. It's a part of the risk, play football! Take out an insurance policy if you are that worried about it.
JMO
FSUKW wrote:Ain't no "I" in team!!!
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FSUKW wrote:Ain't no "I" in team!!!
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ericberry14 wrote:Same as last year. Scared pussy bullshit. Why not just get your 5 Star rivals rating then sit out all 4 years of college?
FuckESPNdotCOM wrote:ericberry14 wrote:Same as last year. Scared pussy bullshit. Why not just get your 5 Star rivals rating then sit out all 4 years of college?
This. Absolute chicken-shit move. It's one thing if you're not 100% healthy to sit out a "meaningless" bowl game (IMO keeping the winning-season streak alive is just as important as the bowl streak). It's another thing to just bail because you want to protect a career that won't even last you until 40.
If you want to sit out games when you're perfectly able to play and don't have some family emergency, then you should have to pay back a proportional amount of scholarship money: for Derwin James, 1/13th of the year's scholarship money for sitting out 1 of 13 games.
When Colt McCoy was injured in the Alabama game, his father had to restrain him from going back in. He was a winner and wanted to play. His dad and coaches made him sit it out.
Still not as bad as Clowney sitting out seemingly half or more of his senior season, but I think even he played in the bowl game.
FuckESPNdotCOM wrote:The other thing is, if you want to skip a game, why skip a fucking bowl game? Skip the Delaware State game if you want to skip one. I think Derwin got hurt in Game 2 last year against Charleston Southern or something. Why did he bother playing in that game? Christ, JJ Cosentino sucks but at least he's sticking with the team and trying. But Derwin James is arguably the best player on defense and his actions are just hurting the team.
Not only from the standpoint that it's a pussy thing to do, you signed an agreement to play football for a school in exchange for a scholarship. Sitting out games for no reason other than "I'm afraid I might get hurt" is a breach of that contract, IMO. It was a bad precedent last season, and it's a bad thing this season. Why not skip out on spring games? Practice? NFL preseason games? Do those preseason games matter more because they might affect your paycheck, asshole?
I can respect that you don't want to get hurt (who does?), but you're putting yourself above the team and not honoring your agreement when you accepted a football scholarship when you do stuff like that.
Frankly, given how the season has gone and how Francois was absent for Senior Day and some other stuff (heard he didn't show up to the team meeting for Fisher's resignation announcement), I can tell this team is just fractured and hopefully this new coaching staff will preach more than just NFL readiness.
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