More Sun Bowl bailouts

Have they been practicing?

Someone said Green had surgery. Hodgins had been up in the air as to wether he was going to play according to just about every report I've read mentioning him since the Civil War game. Haven't heard much about the 3rd player, but I have never seen a practice roster either.

Does every player need to call a press conference or post their post season intentions on X/Twitter? Does OSU need to post daily practice rosters, or could that cross into HIPPAA territory?

Any time the NCAA makes rules on transfers, NIL, eligibility, etc., the universities/athletes rebel against them. 

And no one can compel an athlete to pay in a game he/she doesn't want to. 

It seems that paying all games of the season could be written into a NIL deal. I'm not sure how you get around borderline injuries.... just a thought.

If you are entering a contract and being paid to play... then require them to play. Just an idea.

But Mississippi was not really part of the United States of America until it was readmitted.  Mississippi did not outlaw slavery until December 1, 1869.  And that was only after Ulysses S. Grant mandated that Mississippi hold a referendum on electing a new state government and outlawing slavery on November 30, 1869.  With a Republican governor and legislature, Mississippi then ratified the 14th and 15th Amendments on January 17, 1870, and were readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870.  Having said that, Mississippi was readmitted with the understanding that Mississippi would not adopt a new Constitution.  However, the Democrats in Mississippi basically turned the State into a one-party state by 1876, forcing the final Republican governor out of office.  Mississippi subsequently held a Constitutional Convention in 1889 and lynched the lone Republican delegate, writing a new Constitution to disarm and disenfranchise African-Americans, segregate prisons and schools, and outlawing interracial marriages.  Mississippi adopted the new Constitution on November 1, 1890.

Given the 1890 Constitution and its effect on Mississippi being a state, there was some debate about whether the 13th Amendment really applied to Mississippi or not.  That was tied up with Mississippi's 2013 ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Delaware and Kentucky each rejected the 13th Amendment in February 1865.  Kentucky even voted on January 25, 1866 after the 13th Amendment was ratified that they were specifically not ratifying the 13th Amendment.  Slavery was not outlawed in either state until 1891 in Kentucky and 1897 in Delaware (shortly after Delaware started to flip from being a racist Democratic state to a solid--~75%--Republican state for more than 90 years).

While the 13th Amendment was certified as ratified on December 18, 1865, there was some debate about whether three or four states had indeed ratified the 13th Amendment.  The 13th Amendment was not unequivocally ratified until it was ratified by Iowa on January 17, 1866.

The 13th Amendment, like most amendments, was not self-executing.  It enabled Congress to pass laws on the subject.

The 13th Amendment did not apply to Kentucky until January 1866, when Kentucky became a part of the Freedmen's Bureau.  Kentucky was the only non-Confederate state that the Freedmen's Bureau operated, and it was because of portions of Kentucky's (like Tennessee, the state tended to be more pro-slavery to anti-slavery from West to East) resistance to the 13th Amendment.

The 13th Amendment did not apply to Delaware until the Civil Rights Act of 1866, wherein, among other things, the Federal government made slavery illegal.  The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was not passed until April 9, 1866, over President Andrew Johnson's veto.  At that point, slavery in fact was made illegal in the State of Delaware.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 specifically did not apply to Oklahoma.  The Creek Tribe was the last of the five civilized tribes to outlaw slavery, only agreeing to outlaw slavery on June 14, 1866.  

Almost everybody played for OSU in the Las Vegas Bowl just last year.
Players are not suddenly bailing because there's too many bowl games. And why would you not want to play Notre Dame?
No, in OSU's case this a combination of going for the money (either by hitting the portal or getting ready for a shot at the NFL), looking for another place to play because Smith and some of the staff left and probably worry about not playing in the Pac-12 anymore.

OSU definitely has some thin spots but so does Notre Dame. It won't be easy because Notre Dame probably can handle some of the hits to the roster better than the Beavers but we'll see. I think there's a good possibility it will be a good game.