Seriously, what would you like to see happen that would bring more parity to NCAAF

[Indndawg]

asides from the retirement of Saban?

[Quaoarsking]

The SEC should negotiate with a consortium of donors to give some kind of flat amount to all 1,190 (14 x 85) scholarship SEC players to lessen the impact that the schools with deeper pockets have.

For that matter, just reserve $12 million of TV revenue to give every player $10,000 to endorse the SEC Network.

[RC3]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

[Mjoelner34]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

This.

[starkvegasdawg]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

This. Anything that has in its solution giving the players money will not work. They'll just get that above board and still get the money under the table to influence decisions.

[DownwardDawg]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

End of thread.

[MetEdDawg]

Scholarship reduction really is the only option. Take it to 75, give 10 more to baseball, call it a day.

College football is broken because there is no more parody. People say there are 8-10 teams every year that can win it. That's a flat out lie. It's more like 5, and Bama, Ohio State, and Clemson have been and will be 3 of those 5 for a very long time.

Oklahoma and Notre Dame are your other 2. You might have 1 team like an LSU sneak up but that's going to be rare.

[BulldogBear]

Scholarship reduction really is the only option. Take it to 75, give 10 more to baseball, call it a day.

College football is broken because there is no more parody. People say there are 8-10 teams every year that can win it. That's a flat out lie. It's more like 5, and Bama, Ohio State, and Clemson have been and will be 3 of those 5 for a very long time.

Oklahoma and Notre Dame are your other 2. You might have 1 team like an LSU sneak up but that's going to be rare.

This is, and always has been, the answer

[The Federalist Engineer]

Game Theory exercise:

What if Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio State... created a College Football Premier League. Just forget the other wannabes?

With 20-24 teams they negotiate their own TV deals and simply play their players 100G and make the scholarships limitless and classroom attendance optional. Total end of the "student" charade, their fans won't care.

They lose Baseball and Basketball and the NCAA but who gives a heck. Their fans won't care.

What's the next Move for the other P5 schools?

[Jarius]

What everyone has said about scholarships is the only answer that will work but it will never happen because it will be called racist to take scholarships away from minorities. The rich will continue to have 5 stars sitting on the very end of the bench and the rest of the schools will play for a good bowl game in Florida and that will be our ceiling.

[confucius say]

End amateurism. It's dead anyway.
Salary cap.
Draft recruits or a placement process.
Revenue sharing.

[FriarsPoint]

The nfl create and pay for a farm league system of their own. Period.

[Bdawg]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

It really is this simple

[Lord McBuckethead]

There is a simple solution. Reduce scholarships by 10-15 and give those to baseball. Solves two problems

Absolutely. Reduce down to 70 total scholarships and only up to 85 total players on the sideline. Give those 15 to baseball.

[HoopsDawg]

It really is this simple

not quite. Gotta have a hard cap on signees/transfer each year. Cutting from 85 tp 75 would be a big help, but you can't let the big boys sign 25 every year and use every loophole in the book to sign even more than that. Not to mention the transfer portal.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Game Theory exercise:

What if Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio State... created a College Football Premier League. Just forget the other wannabes?

With 20-24 teams they negotiate their own TV deals and simply play their players 100G and make the scholarships limitless and classroom attendance optional. Total end of the "student" charade, their fans won't care.

They lose Baseball and Basketball and the NCAA but who gives a heck. Their fans won't care.

What's the next Move for the other P5 schools?

Why would they do that? They already dominate the current system, make tons of money, and lets not forget the NCAA is beuracracy picked by universities themselves and is beholden to the big money makers. They can cheat with impunity cause the NCAA will never hammer them, just teams like Mizzou.

There's zero incentive for the big schools to break off from the NCAA.

[ShotgunDawg]

asides from the retirement of Saban?

The retirement of Saban does nothing except potentially transfer power to another monopoly.

The structure of the sport allows monopolies to form in recruiting and that can't be fixed until more of the 4+ caliber talent is distributed to more schools.

Only way to do that is to lower scholarships, have a draft, or give every team a salary cap from which to pay players from.

Which do you prefer?

[ShotgunDawg]

This is, and always has been, the answer

Before recruiting rankings though, people were somewhat dumb as to why and thus they had hope.

Recruiting rankings changed the perspective though as fans clearly see that all the top players go to the same schools.

The sport will fall in popularity very soon unless something is done.

[ShotgunDawg]

Game Theory exercise:

What if Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio State... created a College Football Premier League. Just forget the other wannabes?

With 20-24 teams they negotiate their own TV deals and simply play their players 100G and make the scholarships limitless and classroom attendance optional. Total end of the "student" charade, their fans won't care.

They lose Baseball and Basketball and the NCAA but who gives a heck. Their fans won't care.

What's the next Move for the other P5 schools?

Would be easier to lower scholarships because, if this happened, numerous programs across the country would just shut their programs down, which would cost recruits many many many more scholarships than just reducing the amount.

Creating a super league wouldn't help at all

[ShotgunDawg]

End amateurism. It's dead anyway.
Salary cap.
Draft recruits or a placement process.
Revenue sharing.

This is the only non scholarship solution.