CFB mid-game opt out? Top WR not playing second half due to 'player's decision'
Tuesday night’s Cheez-It Bowl in Orlando has produced a unique situation.
Oklahoma State wide receiver Tylan Wallace is not playing the second half of the game in what was described on the ESPN broadcast as a “player’s decision” by sideline reporter Katie George. Oklahoma State media is reporting that this was a planned decision. Multiple media members openly questioned the most-cited report.
Why is he still dressed then? https://t.co/yh6B6eWb4Z
— Jerry Palm (@jppalmCBS) December 30, 2020
Not sure this makes much sense. You either need to be all in or all out. https://t.co/UAjx5kQrkz
— Andrew Spivey (@AndrewSpiveyGC) December 30, 2020
— Matt Baker (@MBakerTBTimes) December 30, 2020
https://t.co/4U2xItSYGj pic.twitter.com/LjYEBhk0LU
— Ben Glassmire (@BenGlassmireNFL) December 30, 2020
Wallace had 6 catches for 45 yards in OSU’s first half. The wide receiver has torn his ACL twice and may have decided on a half-time opt-out after seeing Miami QB D’Eriq King’s injury. Mike Gundy is sure to be asked to explain the situation after the game.
Currently, Oklahoma State leads Miami 37-26 in the fourth quarter.
You guys are a bunch of snowflake idiots. The kid quit. I would have him escorted to the locker room, allow him to shower and clean out his locker, and have him out before the game ended.
That was my team mate I’d been roasting this guy the whole second half. How the heck do you quit on your team in the middle of a game, just sad! I hope the team tells him he better find another way home. Since he is no longer a part of the team. Bye scrub
Between the transfer portal and, now, the “opt out” FBS football is embracing an unregulated form of free agency. They’ve got to either get a handle on this or the game will change forever . . . and not in a good way. If this continues, I think you’ll see more and more fans say forget it, and start following the NFL.
It is on the coaches to a certain extent. His coach could have had him removed from the sidelines and locker room, and used it as a teaching moment as to what he expects and will allow. Sadly when a player enters the transfer portal the school has to continue his scholarship until the end of the period/semester. To me opting out is quitting and they should be able to end all support from the athletic department and the scholarship. Suddenly losing your housing and meal ticket would make some of these folks stop and think real hard.
I think it’s too late. We probably won’t recognize CFB in about 3 years.
“opt out”!! I guess the libers have changed ANOTHER word to something else – now “opt out” has been substituted for QUIT! What a wimpy, self centered world those kids live in!
Calm down.
There will be no “opt out” next year.
Maybe for the bowl games but before/mid season it will be you are quitting so transfer portal it is.
Lol well that’s weird. Not sure why you’d decide to do that unless you had an injury or something.
It is super funny to see the boomers on here get super worked up over a player on a team they don’t even follow then call someone else a snowflake though lmao
The term “opt-out” continues to be egregiously misused. This was initially meant to describe a player who took advantage of the NCAA’s one-year policy of forgoing sports for fear of COVID while having their scholarship guaranteed to remain in place. Those football players that truly opted out did so many weeks ago.
There exists no requirement for a player to defend or clarify their decision as purely virus-driven, and the term continues to be used for every conceivable variety of bailing on your teammates, coaches and school, even this late in the season when flat-out quitting clearly has absolutely zero relevance to COVID.
The freedom to walk away from your scholarship commitment while having it remain guaranteed, and facing no consequences from the program or school, ends when the academic year is over, but this term “opt-out” is here to stay with players and an enabling media. It sounds so much better than being labeled a quitter.
Why would there ever be a plan in advance to only play half a game? That makes absolutely no sense.
Generation of snowflakes…