At this point, we all understand how competitive college football is. And we also all understand that when that competition is between teammates over playing time, inevitably someone will lose that competition. However, unlike in generations past, with the advent of the transfer portal and the proliferation of waivers, players moving between programs in today’s college football has become almost common place. But what happened at Ohio Stadium on Saturday night with now-former Ohio State linebacker K’Vaughan Pope was anything but common place; to be honest, it was just sad.
For reasons that have been reported, but not yet fully confirmed, in short, there was confusion on a play’s linebacker substitution package and Pope appeared to became frustrated about not getting onto the field.