College Football is a Terrible Product

[ShotgunDawg]

The problem is that 2 things essentially pay for all other athletics at most places. Football and the NCAA tournament. The powers to be don?t care about competitive balance. I wish we would drop the signing day cap to 20ish and lower overall schollys to 75. That?s 5 players a year Bama and LSU can?t sign and hoard. Give those schollys to baseball but at the end of the day if it happened the schollys would go to a women?s sport.

Hopefully the new transfer rule helps, and lowering schollies would obviously help but that?ll be hugely political.

Another, outside the box option, is have an optional draft in which players that opt in to the draft get paid and players that don?t can choose where they want to go but don?t get paid.

[ShotgunDawg]

Alabama just got the number 1 CB in the country. Check out his final 4... if only someone would step up and compete with them....

https://twitter.com/secfootball/stat...247159808?s=21

[Todd4State]

Hopefully the new transfer rule helps, and lowering schollies would obviously help but that?ll be hugely political.

Another, outside the box option, is have an optional draft in which players that opt in to the draft get paid and players that don?t can choose where they want to go but don?t get paid.

You can't have a draft involving kids and where they go to college. It's just not feasible. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen when some kid has his pro career tanked because he got drafted by Ole Miss and couldn't go to Bama.

The only thing that they can do is lower the amount of scholarships that they give. Which to me is too many based on the fact that every team seems to be giving at least one walk-on a full ride every year. Going with 65 scholarships would probably mean 15 man recruiting classes every year.

[ShotgunDawg]

You can't have a draft involving kids and where they go to college. It's just not feasible. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen when some kid has his pro career tanked because he got drafted by Ole Miss and couldn't go to Bama.

The only thing that they can do is lower the amount of scholarships that they give. Which to me is too many based on the fact that every team seems to be giving at least one walk-on a full ride every year. Going with 65 scholarships would probably mean 15 man recruiting classes every year.

Todd, “optional draft”. That means kids have the option of not participating in it and choosing where they want to go just like they have for 100+ years. Nothing changes unless the kid wants to get paid.

Please read what wrote before disagreeing

To add, you could let the kid narrow down his schools to 10 or do that we’re eligible to draft him

[Jack Lambert]

If OSU goes 8-0 and Bama goes 9-1 who has the higher seeding? What if Oregon or USC goes 7-0? This season is really going to be freaked upped.

[ShotgunDawg]

If OSU goes 8-0 and Bama goes 9-1 who has the higher seeding? What if Oregon or USC goes 7-0? This season is really going to be freaked upped.

Doesn’t matter who the higher seed is. Bama is 30 points better than Ok St

[Jack Lambert]

Doesn?t matter who the higher seed is. Bama is 30 points better than Ok St

OSU is Ohio State not OK State.

[RocketDawg]

You can't have a draft involving kids and where they go to college. It's just not feasible. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen when some kid has his pro career tanked because he got drafted by Ole Miss and couldn't go to Bama.

The only thing that they can do is lower the amount of scholarships that they give. Which to me is too many based on the fact that every team seems to be giving at least one walk-on a full ride every year. Going with 65 scholarships would probably mean 15 man recruiting classes every year.

Having a draft of high school kids would just make college football more and more professional. The kids have to be able to go to whatever school they want to (and get into, of course). College football has really gotten out of hand.

[ShotgunDawg]

Having a draft of high school kids would just make college football more and more professional. The kids have to be able to go to whatever school they want to (and get into, of course). College football has really gotten out of hand.

“Optional draft”

Again, reading comprehension appears to be a real issue here.

[RocketDawg]

“Optional draft”

Again, reading comprehension appears to be a real issue here.

No, I saw that part but still don't think it's the thing to do. But I'm old school. Might as well not even require them to go to school if we start going down roads like that.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

No, I saw that part but still don't think it's the thing to do. But I'm old school. Might as well not even require them to go to school if we start going down roads like that.

+1 that's good stuff