Maybe if people stopped treating these players like kids giving their all to Georgia Tech and start realizing they’re paid professionals who make adult decisions like opting out to play then we wouldn’t be so butthurt. There’s no betrayal here, Sims is a 6 figure NIL paid professional cfb player and chose not to play after being medically cleared. Key did the right thing by removing him from the team.
I was shopping at Sprouts earlier, thanks
@daBuzz for the suggestion, and this guy saw my Tech sweatshirt and came over to talk to me. He’s a Miami fan who has a Tech alumn girlfriend so he follows both teams. He said “With all the NIL stuff going on, there needs to be contracts set in place, just like in the pros, so schools can be protected from players leaving on a whim after getting paid or another team paying them to leave. I’m ok with it if they want to be pros and get paid, but they have to be treated like pros and their decisions should have consequences just like they do with the pros.” I think he’s right.
