Bowl Season executive director points at issues surrounding games losing their luster

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After countless players opted out of their respective bowl games this postseason, those involved in organizing them understand something needs to be done.

Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy noted that Bowl Season now "isn't what we've grown up watching," and Bowl Season executive director Nick Carparelli seems to agree.

Carparelli has held his position for over three years, and while even when he started, it was not uncommon to see players opt out of the games, it's now running rampant.

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Trophy on display during the College Football Playoff press conference and media roundtable on Nov. 19, 2022, at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. (Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"The problem is not bowl games or the bowl system. The problem is all the unregulated circumstances around it now, with transfer portal and NIL and early signing period all happening at the same time," Carparelli recently said to Yahoo Sports. "That doesn’t occur in any other sport. That’s what has to be fixed."

More and more players are opting out of bowl games, whether it is to protect themselves for the NFL Draft, realignment forcing traditional bowl game matchups to be a thing in the past, or other reasons.

Because of that, Carparelli said compensating players for participating in bowl games "is a very real discussion that needs to be had."

"I’d love to discuss with the NCAA the notion of student-athletes being compensated to promote the event itself. I’m still not sure what’s wrong with that," he added.

"What is legal is they can promote the title sponsor of the game, destination of the