Just my opinion, but I’m not sympathetic to this argument at all. Sometimes you leave a company and your friends that stay behind get better benefits a year later. You don’t get to go back and get an extra 2% tacked onto your 401k. The players got their chance to play college football and made enough out of it to garner NFL looks. Will those in favor of this move come back in a few years and rally in favor of extra years for the players who these 23 and 24 year old men steal snaps on tape from? Do those guys get a chance later? NONE of these fifth year guys should be playing, whether once on NFL rosters or not. Rules change. Institutions adjust to the times. Sometimes you get a bad break. The so called advocates for these athletes are only setting them up for failure later. And just so we’re clear, this same brand of thinking is why we are on the verge of a 24 team playoff that will cause a decrease in interest in the regular season. Nobody wants to say “you should have made more plays.” Or “you shouldn’t have lost that game” Participation trophy culture has infected CFB from the highest levels down and we have nothing but a complete and total lack of leadership on many levels to blame for it.

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Georgia won 29 straight games, lost by 3 on a bad call to Bama in the SEC title, got dropped from 1 to 6, and instead of bitching and moaning about refs and committees they went and laid a 63-3 beat down on FSU in a game where all of their healthy draftable players played Look where UGA is now and tell me it didn’t matter. How you do anything is how you do everything. If your core program traits only matter when things go your way then they don’t actually matter. Notre Dame just told their players it’s okay to quit when things don’t go your way. I think it will have negative consequences on the immediate future of the program