Near the end his junior season in 2016, Christian McCaffrey left the Stanford football team to prepare himself for the NFL draft before Stanford’s big Sun Bowl game against North Carolina – which Stanford won without him.  What kind of person does that?  He abandoned his teammates. He abandoned those who blocked for him so he could pile up all those rushing and return yards.  He abandoned those who threw him all the passes he caught allowing him to run up gaudy receiving numbers.  And he abandoned the school that provided him with an unequaled free education.  All for his own selfish purposes.  If preparing for the draft instead of playing in the Sun Bowl game caused him to be drafted higher, did he share the extra money he got with the team and school he abandoned to enrich himself?  And worse, he established a precedent that in the years since has been followed by a bunch of other top players from other schools.  Christian gave cover to other players who thought only of themselves and skipped their teams’ bowl games.

There’s a problem with the bowl games now.  Unless your team is one of the four teams in the College Football Playoffs, people now think that their team’s bowl game is meaningless – nothing more than a scrimmage against a team from outside their conference.  These bowl games are now the NIT of college football.  Before the four-team playoff, bowl games used to be important to the teams that played in them.  No more.  The teams don’t care.  Their best players now skip their bowl games in order to make money for themselves.  The bowl games are now scrimmages without the teams’ best players.  This is the legacy of Christian McCaffrey.

Also, he should stop thanking god every time he scores a touchdown.  God doesn’t give a crap about him or his touchdowns.