Gordon Monson: If college is in part about setting oneself up for a lucrative professional career, why wouldn't football players sit out bowl games to improve their NFL odds?
Utah cornerback Clark Phillips III follows a play during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Florida, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Gainesville, Fla.In the zeal for the glory of the team, for the glory of whoever or whatever folks root for, the real objective at hand gets swamped in the partisan swells, gets called selfish by those who are disappointed.
Utah — like a whole lot of other teams from other schools in other bowls — has a few key players who will miss the Rose Bowl game, foremost among them Clark Phillips III and Dalton Kincaid. Players don’t come any more key than those. They are the best of the best Utah has in its program. Without those two, there’s little chance that the Utes would be heading to Pasadena in the weeks ahead.
This is not to criticize Phillips or Kincaid, or any other players on any other teams who are fortunate enough to find themselves in such advantageous positions. It is to concur with them. They’ve trained and sweated and sacrificed and made the most of their talents so far to be where they are. And they’ve helped their teams win, again and again.
Whether bowls could fight fire with fire, or real money with potential money, via NIL deals, finding a way to lure players into participating in bowls by way of financial compensation, is a gray area worth keeping an eye on.
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