[PVTree]

Someone online said that it costs about $750k to send a football team to a bowl game. If the conference distribution income doesn't cover that, and if there's a high likelihood that a program wouldn't be able to sell enough of their ticket purchase obligation, then there might be good reasons to not go to a bowl game.  But in the interests of getting guys more practice time and giving them the full season experience, I would say athletes and fans expect teams to participate in bowl games when invited.

In the last 5-10+ years or so, a number of high-profile players - including CMac, IIRC - opted out of participating in bowl games due to injury concerns.  Any thoughts on whether NILs and other changes in the FB financial landscape might affect that trend?

Now that the players are being paid like pros, I'm all for their contacts having enforceable transfer penalties. You leave because you got offered, $2M more than what you were getting, you'll need to reimburse some of the $ the original school invested in you. 

You don't want to play in a bowl game? Fine, it'll cost you for refusing to play all games as stated in your contact (of course, players will begin to fake injuries as to not be fined by their school).

They have the benefits of being a pro, they need to have the responsibilities too.

[PVTree]

Someone online said that it costs about $750k to send a football team to a bowl game. If the conference distribution income doesn't cover that, and if there's a high likelihood that a program wouldn't be able to sell enough of their ticket purchase obligation, then there might be good reasons to not go to a bowl game.  But in the interests of getting guys more practice time and giving them the full season experience, I would say athletes and fans expect teams to participate in bowl games when invited.

In the last 5-10+ years or so, a number of high-profile players - including CMac, IIRC - opted out of participating in bowl games due to injury concerns.  Any thoughts on whether NILs and other changes in the FB financial landscape might affect that trend?

Now that the players are being paid like pros, I'm all for their contacts having enforceable transfer penalties. You leave because you got offered, $2M more than what you were getting, you'll need to reimburse some of the $ the original school invested in you. 

You don't want to play in a bowl game? Fine, it'll cost you for refusing to play all games as stated in your contact (of course, players will begin to fake injuries as to not be fined by their school).

They have the benefits of being a pro, they need to have the responsibilities too.