Cotton Bowl tonight: "Kyle Trask can silence any remaining skeptics"

[kungfoodude]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

This just sucks to watch. This should've been a great game. Instead, UF got hit with a ton of opt outs while OU had their whole squad show up. Trask was terrible and that didn't help, but the outcome was predictable.

I fear the UNC game may look similar. We're playing a top 5 team in TAMU. We're going to be short out #1 WR, both starting RBs, and our starting MLB. TAMU had no players lot out of the bowl game.

Maybe programs need to start asking themselves what these other programs are doing to convince their guys NOT to opt out, because Florida and UNC are going into bowl games badly undermanned against elite football teams.

In fairness, UNC was probably going to get pasted by Texass A&M anyway. It will just be a much more severe pasting now. 

Also, UF and UNC are hardly the only teams getting mass opt outs this bowl season. poo, we have had multiple entire TEAMS opt out of the bowl games.

[Varking]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

This just sucks to watch. This should've been a great game. Instead, UF got hit with a ton of opt outs while OU had their whole squad show up. Trask was terrible and that didn't help, but the outcome was predictable.

I fear the UNC game may look similar. We're playing a top 5 team in TAMU. We're going to be short out #1 WR, both starting RBs, and our starting MLB. TAMU had no players lot out of the bowl game.

Maybe programs need to start asking themselves what these other programs are doing to convince their guys NOT to opt out, because Florida and UNC are going into bowl games badly undermanned against elite football teams.

I hope Jones can figure out how to throw by next season. I’ve always like Richardson more. 

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

In fairness, UNC was probably going to get pasted by Texass A&M anyway. It will just be a much more severe pasting now. 

Also, UF and UNC are hardly the only teams getting mass opt outs this bowl season. poo, we have had multiple entire TEAMS opt out of the bowl games.

Sam Howell is probably gonna throw for 6 TDs to pull off the W anyway. Just sayin'.

The key miss is actually Surratt the MLB. He's the glue holding that very inconsistent D together.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Not watching the game but just checked the box score.

ouch

 

[Varking]

Just now, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Not watching the game but just checked the box score.

ouch

 

3 practices with guys who normally don’t suite up vs a team not having opt outs and looking for a major win will do this. 

[kungfoodude]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Sam Howell is probably gonna throw for 6 TDs to pull off the W anyway. Just sayin'.

The key miss is actually Surratt the MLB. He's the glue holding that very inconsistent D together.

Lol. UNC drew an opponent way out of their league, it is what it is. Seems like a fair amount of that is happening this season due to COVID craziness. 

[Varking]

I’d like to see Rippadon spin this in a positive light. 

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, Varking said:

3 practices with guys who normally don’t suite up vs a team not having opt outs and looking for a major win will do this. 

This is the real issue. When you end up with lopsided bowl games due to one team getting crushed by opt outs and the other team showing up full strength.

[Rocky Davis]

33 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The NCAA basically created their own problem. Years ago, qualifying for a bowl actually meant something. Then the NCAA got greedy and created a bowl system so bloated that you have to absolutely suck to not qualify for a bowl. They made bowl games meaningless themselves.

Yeah Wake Forest played in one today!

[Varking]

PUT RICHARDSON IN

[LinvilleGorge]

This is so bad. This is Exhibit 1A in the case for the death of the existing bowl system.

[GoPanthers123]

Yep, I made the T-bow comparison a week ago.  Don’t want him on this team.

[Toomers]

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This just sucks to watch. This should've been a great game. Instead, UF got hit with a ton of opt outs while OU had their whole squad show up. Trask was terrible and that didn't help, but the outcome was predictable.

I fear the UNC game may look similar. We're playing a top 5 team in TAMU. We're going to be short out #1 WR, both starting RBs, and our starting MLB. TAMU had no players lot out of the bowl game.

Maybe programs need to start asking themselves what these other programs are doing to convince their guys NOT to opt out, because Florida and UNC are going into bowl games badly undermanned against elite football teams.

Unless you can give the players a “cause” to rally around, there’s not much you can do to motivate top programs. 
 

OK really wanted a chance to wash off their playoff performances of the last 5 years. A shot at a top SEC team was it. Then FL players drop out enough masse, and they HAD to win or their credibility would have been gone for a long time. Sux for OK players who wanted a shot at the full team. 
 

And TXAM is trying to prove they should have made the CFP. Which no one will remember except their fans. 

  Most sure it’s fixable with all the easy money they are making. It will take fans just losing complete interest for anything to even be considered. Don’t travel and quit watching. I watched the 2nd quarter and that’s the first bowl game I’ve turned on this year. Probably last. Have no interest in Auburn’s bowl at all. Which is sad.  

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, GoPanthers123 said:

Yep, I made the T-bow comparison a week ago.  Don’t want him on this team.

Stop. Timmy is the polar opposite of Kyle Trask.