Do players care?

#51
#51
I’ll add, if they are looking to the portal, they need to ball out on film. Packing it in and/or playing poorly with a chance to go 9-3 won’t help their value.
 
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#52
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At this point, the only player who doesn’t seem fully bought in is Boo Carter. He’s a classic example of talent being undermined by poor influences and misplaced priorities. Instead of trusting his coaches and focusing on development, he’s been swayed by outside voices that don’t have his best interests at heart.


Boo came out of high school with a lot of hype, and unfortunately, he started to believe it. That’s always a dangerous path, no great athlete ever succeeds by believing their own press. The best ones stay humble, hungry, and coachable.


He’s surrounded by negativity that he hasn’t managed to separate himself from, and it’s holding him back. Unless he takes a hard look in the mirror and makes some serious personal changes, it’s hard to see him staying on the team next season.
 
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MurphyVol said:
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Squirrel White is a head scratcher this year. Yeah I know all our fans say he jumped and fell down too much, but he caught 60+ passes two years ago. He caught 35 last year with one arm.

So he goes to FSU and all summer the FSU coaches say he's healthy and they're itching to get him in the field. Malzahn even said he was spending a lot of time working on situations to get the ball in his hands as much as possible.

He has 5 receptions this year. The grass was definitely not greener for him.
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Squirrel got more money which was what was important to him. His playing time & results feel off the cliff. Credit the coaching staff. While I respect Squirrel for him playing hurt LY & the effort he gave his 3 years here, Staley is a significant upgrade.
 
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Dougie_D said:
I’m sure the seniors care about the rest of season but what about the other players? Are they making their way to transfer portal?
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Just like the fans some car,e then after one loss they hate the team, others stick it out and then when their favorite sports guy throws shade on the team they join in with pitchforks. PPL are ppl some are in it for the long run and some are in it until it no longer profits them, so they start blasting and it makes them feel better about their plight in life.
 
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NIL has been a train wreck for college football. Before the players made millions of dollars playing in college, they had to "care" about being the best so they had a chance to make a lot of $$ in the NFL. Now that doesn't exist. They become millionaires playing for a college....whether they perform or not. If a 22 year old has 4-5 million after a few years in college, do you really think most will care about the NFL? Some maybe....most will take their money and consider it a windfall!
 
#60
#60
These Seniors definitely care. And, at least, a majority of the underclassmen care. But to the ones that don't care or thinking of leaving, don't let the door hit you on the way out. If they don't care, we don't want them here, anyway.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
the high level kids (the ones we want) don't care about wins and losses as much but they definitely care about playing time and padding their stat line and raising their national profile.

WRs don't care about winning as much as they care about how many times the ball is thrown their way. Running backs care about touches, linebackers care about sacks.

that's what gets you paid, not the number of wins your team had.

do you think Travis Hunter gave a crap how many games Colorado won when they raised his banner in the rafters and called him the best player they ever had? no he did not. he cared about getting paid in the NFL and he got there by playing on a bad team that gave him the opportunity to show off.

if the playing time and padding stats leads to wins, that's just a biproduct to them. if the padding stats doesn't lead to wins, no big deal. you don't get paid for winning.
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I think it's funny how some of you believe you know how the players feel given none of you have ever played anything at this high level. Of course there may be a handful you may have pegged accurately but most of these guys want to compete as hard as ever
 
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Skooter said:
They do matter for practices with next years players and we will have 4-6 true freshmen on the field on defense in the game.
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They matter to the coaches for those reasons. I think the players could take it or leave it for many of the bowls. Heck, we didn’t seem that interested in playing against OSU last year. Very little fight in that game. Overmatched, yes. But we just didn’t seem to have a lot of fire for whatever reason once the game started going a certain way.
 
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Volfan8282 said:
They matter to the coaches for those reasons. I think the players could take it or leave it for many of the bowls. Heck, we didn’t seem that interested in playing against OSU last year. Very little fight in that game. Overmatched, yes. But we just didn’t seem to have a lot of fire for whatever reason once the game started going a certain way.
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Well we had a qb who’d been trying to leave and a gimpy Sampson while in shitohio in 15 degrees with big game Banks calling the defense as we had another qb have a career night.
 
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Tnphil said:
We had a couple hit the portal not many days before our playoff butt whipping last season....That's about as bad as it gets.
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Or that's kids that knew they weren't part of the game plans at Ohio State!
 
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