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Sean McVay on NFL players returning to CFB: 'I feel like I took a freakin' gummy'
Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

Sean McVay on NFL players returning to CFB: 'I feel like I took a freakin' gummy'

Nobody seems to like the recent trends in college football and college athletics as a whole. 

We've got schools (read: Texas Tech) that were actively fighting the NCAA to preserve the eligibility of a quarterback with a gambling addiction who had bet on his own team.

Some players, thanks to the transfer portal, are spending every season of their college career at a different school. Recruits are getting paid millions via NIL deals before they've even stepped on the field.

Now the NFL is getting involved, sort of. Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers are making noise by welcoming back players who had tried to make it at the NFL level but were cut in OTAs or in training camp. However, the SEC is among the conferences to ban players like this.

“They are going to play for you or someone else," Kiffin recently said. 

Whether or not these transactions hold up is another story altogether, but right now, there are players who wore NFL jerseys this summer getting ready to suit up to play again at the college level.

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay was recently asked about NFL camp players heading back to the college ranks after getting cut.

“I feel like I took a freakin’ gummy," was McVay's response to the madness.

Sean McVay on state of college football: "I feel like I took a freakin' gummy"

Again, nobody seems to like the way things are trending, but from an NFL perspective, all coaches at that level can do is watch.

McVay and his ilk are going to sign and cut players based on the needs of their team. If they happen to be playing college football that next weekend, that's no skin off the back of anyone in the NFL.

In the meantime, college athletics, and specifically college football and college basketball, may be imploding.

Perhaps McVay has already figured it out: that it's best to watch a huge dumpster fire from a safe distance.

Andrew Kulha

Andrew Kulha is probably the only sports writer you know who also doubles as a mortician. Spooky! @KulhaSports

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