Do you really believe that reducing the scholarship number would benefit MSU?
[QUOTE=Coach007;1149801]I'm thinking the sport in general. But yes.[/QUOTE
So you believe there is a level playing field for all, every school has the same exact advantages and disadvantages. And on that note I want to ask you a serious question. What is Mississippi State football actually playing for?
[QUOTE=Coursesuper;1149806]Nobody said there should be a level playing field, but the margin for error has to grow smaller for the good of the game.
If run correctly, programs like MSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Ok State, etc should have the ability to compete for a national championship. That can be true while the blue bloods are still the best programs with the most talent. The gap has just gotten too large for anyone to be interested
college football needs a system that kind of works like MLB. In MLB, the Yankees, Dodgers, Cardinal, Cubs, & Boston are usually the best teams but the sport also provides a path for the Kansas City Royals to win a World Series if built correctly. College football provides no such hope & it's a huge problem
Yeah...reduce scholarships...and then have an injury-riddled season like we are experiencing now, and see how we end up, sacrificing an entire season, and having to endure a shitty season because we are playing walk-ons.
You either think too much, or not at all, there is no in-between with you.
[QUOTE=ShotgunDawg;1149810]Your one task there but I don't think scholarship reductions with have the affect many then they will.
Reducing the scholarship number doesn't benefit MSU or any other program trying to compete with the top of the heap. The kids that want to go to Alabama, LSU, Ohio State and so forth are still going to go there, the scholarship limit isn't going to more equality distribute talent. It's will only make schools like MSU less deep because we won't be able take any chances on a marginal recruit on our board because there will be no spot for that kid.
It will benefit the MAC, Sun Belt, AAC, CUSA and the FCS division.
I think what a scholarship reduction would do is reallocate a lot of the 3 star type players that sign on with the top ~5-10 teams to the other ~120 teams...
So, let's say skollies are reduced to 75... that's ~50-100 3 star guys spread across the rest of the field... While all schools would see an increase in overall talent, "Average per recruit" ranking would increase more for those upper echelon programs than it would for everyone else.
JMO
But that would still close the gap.
- Average recruit ranking is meaningless if the average is just increased due to a lowering of numbers. Bama would have no more talent than they do now
- Even if most of the re-allocation is 3 stars, the 3 stars that Bama, for example signs, are still better 3 stars than what everyone else is signing.
There is absolutely no argument that lowering scholarships wouldn't create a better product in college football