[Mick]

We continue to have incomplete information, so easier to move on and assume that CMAC and company were making a sensible choice.  A choice that the coaches understood and the players (apparently) supported.

Is it incomplete information?  At least as it pertains to his decision?  I'd say his father's statements round out our understanding pretty well.  CMAC made a by-definition selfish decision, he cleared it with about 1/7 of his teammates (What were they going to say?) he told the coaches he was quitting on them and his teammates with the last game of the season to go, his Dad implied that CMAC was underinsured to injury, and Ed claimed that had he been injured, he would have forfeited $18 million, which is the equivalent of a #7 pick.  No one is claiming CMAC is injured, so he's obviously healthy.  CMAC did not come out and say I was afraid of getting injured, he came out and said he wanted to prepare for the NFL draft, because, you know, you can't prepare for it by practicing and playing football with the Stanford team for two weeks when the combine is twelve weeks away.

Sounds like fairly complete information to me.

[Mick]

We continue to have incomplete information, so easier to move on and assume that CMAC and company were making a sensible choice.  A choice that the coaches understood and the players (apparently) supported.

Is it incomplete information?  At least as it pertains to his decision?  I'd say his father's statements round out our understanding pretty well.  CMAC made a by-definition selfish decision, he cleared it with about 1/7 of his teammates (What were they going to say?) he told the coaches he was quitting on them and his teammates with the last game of the season to go, his Dad implied that CMAC was underinsured to injury, and Ed claimed that had he been injured, he would have forfeited $18 million, which is the equivalent of a #7 pick.  No one is claiming CMAC is injured, so he's obviously healthy.  CMAC did not come out and say I was afraid of getting injured, he came out and said he wanted to prepare for the NFL draft, because, you know, you can't prepare for it by practicing and playing football with the Stanford team for two weeks when the combine is twelve weeks away.

Sounds like fairly complete information to me.