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He is not saying that Christian's decision to not play was unfortunate. He is saying that it is unfortunate that in college football the players are at risk without any compensation at all, and when an opportunity does arise, they are forced to be in the position of either protecting themselves (and possibly the risk of losing your good opinion of them)  or accepting large financial risk. The university, the NCAA, and the bowl game itself are not at risk to nearly the same extent that the individual athletes are.

OK but that was known before Christian signed his LOI.  He willingly entered a system that both he and his father clearly understood.  To turn around and blame that system well after the fact rings hollow to me.  If Ed had made those statement explicitly at the time that Christian declared for the draft I might accept them as more than a well-after-the-fact attempt to explain a decision that I honestly don't think he expected would generate the reaction it did.

I lost more respect for Ed from listening to this interview than I did for Christian when he made his decision.

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He is not saying that Christian's decision to not play was unfortunate. He is saying that it is unfortunate that in college football the players are at risk without any compensation at all, and when an opportunity does arise, they are forced to be in the position of either protecting themselves (and possibly the risk of losing your good opinion of them)  or accepting large financial risk. The university, the NCAA, and the bowl game itself are not at risk to nearly the same extent that the individual athletes are.

OK but that was known before Christian signed his LOI.  He willingly entered a system that both he and his father clearly understood.  To turn around and blame that system well after the fact rings hollow to me.  If Ed had made those statement explicitly at the time that Christian declared for the draft I might accept them as more than a well-after-the-fact attempt to explain a decision that I honestly don't think he expected would generate the reaction it did.

I lost more respect for Ed from listening to this interview than I did for Christian when he made his decision.