By skipping out on their teams bowl games, running backs Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffery are selfish and setting a bad precedent that will negatively affect college football now and in the future. 

Am I the only person in America who thinks that Leonard Fournette and Chrisitian McCaffery skipping their college bowl games is a selfish move?

Don’t get me wrong. I understand that Fournette and McCaffery want to start training for the draft and that they don’t want to risk injury, but skipping out on a college bowl game to do that is the ultimate example of selfishness.

Both players know what they mean to their respective teams. LSU and Stanford go as Fournette and McCaffery go. They are the centerpiece of each schools offense. Skipping the game to “workout” is a cowardly move in my opinion. Both of these guys are abandoning their brothers and leaving them behind essentially because they are off to bigger and better things. They don’t have time for them anymore.

I don’t like it! I think what both players are doing is terrible and they deserve to be criticized. I know some people are comparing this to coaches leaving for bigger jobs but it is not the same thing.

Fournette and McCaffery are quitting on their teammates to serve their own needs. When a coach leaves, he is not quitting on the kids. He is moving to a better opportunity for him and his family. You can say the same for Fournette and McCaffery but the bond they have with their teammates is much stronger than the bond a coach has with his players.

What is the sense of promoting the team concept in sports today if all athletes want to do today is serve their own interests? We might as well just abandon the team concept and promote individuality in all sports. Who care about the team. As along as you are using the program to further your own interests, that’s all that matters. The heck with winning and loyalty!

Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffery have given the LSU and Stanford programs everything they have. They could give the program and their teammates one more game but why do that? They have bigger fish to fry and greener pastures to roam. They don’t need to play another college football game. After all, it isn’t about LSU and Stanford. It is about Fournette and McCaffery. They are bigger than the program, their teammates and the game.