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Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeye’s football team were honored at the White House for their 2024 national championship victory.
These problems aren’t unique, everyone. They’re just constantly viewed at surface level.
The latest rage is this: the NFL Draft needs an opt out clause. If you don’t like where you’re drafted, you can go back to college football.
This, of course, is ludicrous.
But when Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers is selected in the seventh round, or Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe – invited to the draft by the league – had to wait until the third round to be selected, maybe someone, somewhere is giving players bad information.
Or maybe they just wanted out of college football.
Years ago, I had a long conversation with then-UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen. Say what you want about his NFL flop, he was one of the rare, elite college players who saw beyond the surface — and wasn’t afraid to speak his mind.
Long before player empowerment was a thing, long before the NCAA caved in 2021 on NIL and free player movement to avoid losing the billions it eventually will under the House case and ensuing revenue sharing, Rosen was talking about finding a compromise.
One of his key points: many players leave after their junior seasons – no matter their grade from the NFL Draft advisory board – because school is simply not for them.
It doesn’t mean they can’t handle the academic workload or a suddenly unique public life, it just means they’re more comfortable in a professional environment where their entire focus is football.
It is here where we introduce the late, great Mike Leach, who had a whopper of plan a couple of years ago that was scoffed and laughed at — and now, in these ever-changing days of the sport, looks…
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