How to fix College Football?

[irishog77]

Money issues between the tiers aside I think low tier 1 teams would actually benefit from being relegated. How many more tickets could Illinois sell if they were beating up on MAC teams for 2 years going 21-3 or something?

Probably like 6.

 

[GATTACA!]

Probably like 6.

Exactly. Triple their attendance?!

 

[IrishLion]

I think the transfer portal should be directly related to (1) coaching changes and (2) graduation.

If your coach leaves for another job or gets fired, you should get a free one-time transfer. This benefits the players, but also probably keeps schools from firing guys after a one or two year trial (especially schools that have no business paying millions for a buyout, then millions more for a new coach, when they aren't going to win any major trophies regardless). If you fire a guy, not only are you hoping the next guy offers a quality rebuild, but you're hoping he can fast track it by a year, because your roster is about to get pillaged by other schools. So some middling schools will ACTUALLY have to think about additional risks before making a move, which offers some stability for the players, but also gives a grace period to some potential up-and-coming coaches that might just need a year or two of extra seasoning to figure out the job.

Or, as previously/currently, you can move along without sitting out if you've graduated.

If you're just unhappy with your choice of college, or something comes up in your life that makes a transfer necessary, you can apply for a waiver... but the waiver should go through a committee NOT appointed by the NCAA, as their arbitrary, randomly-applied rulings were like 97% of the problem with the original transfer process anyway. The committee should be formed as a sort of "call up" committee to the playoff committee, that way it's made up of people with a legit interest in the sport, and they'll be motivated to pay their dues if they want to be involved with the playoff at any point.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

This is absolutely crazy and will never happen for a thousand different reasons... but it would the absolute best system, barred none. You would likely need to establish 4 regions with 26 teams per region where you play a round robin 12 game schedule against your division of your region. Top schools or top division advance to a 4-team playoff, bottom three schools get relegated. Top three schools of second division get promoted.

26 teams and 5 regions = 130 total teams (will have to add 5 schools from Division II). Division II is the same (it already has 129 schools). Division III currently has 250 schools so that can be organized into two smaller divisions. You could further subdivide the 5 regions into two 13 team groups. These 13 teams play each other. The best W-L record plays the other for the region Champ. Region champs play each other with a +1 next best record. 6 team playoff. Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

[Irish#1]

I've not been that impressed with his leadership, but he's smart enough to see the shit storm coming and getting out so he won't have to deal with it. Might also be because he doesn't want that stain on his bio.

NCAA president Mark Emmert to step down

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247sports.com

 

[Irish#1]

Forde tearing into Emmert.

Mark Emmert exits after turning NCAA into an embarrassment - Sports Illustrated

Pat Forde writes, “If there is a less respected current CEO of any organization, I don’t know who it is.”

www.si.com

 

[stpeteirish]

I've not been that impressed with his leadership, but he's smart enough to see the shit storm coming and getting out so he won't have to deal with it. Might also be because he doesn't want that stain on his bio.

NCAA president Mark Emmert to step down

...

247sports.com

Bio is stained. Beyond stained.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

New NCAA committee poised to turn college sports upside down - Sports Illustrated

The NCAA’s post–Mark Emmert era could be a completely different experience.

www.si.com

 

[Redbar]

Guy went from L$U to $EC to NCAA, so just not surprised at all. He did what he was supposed to do probably, now he’s trying to avoid having to take responsibility for all his (IN)actions.

 

[phork]

The future is super conferences. Period. 6 or 8 conferences 16 teams in each. Play 12 games total with 8 in your conference and randomize the other 4. Perfect seasons would go by the wayside but if we are trying to determine the best team then it should be against the best competition.

 

[NorthDakota]

The future is super conferences. Period. 6 or 8 conferences 16 teams in each. Play 12 games total with 8 in your conference and randomize the other 4. Perfect seasons would go by the wayside but if we are trying to determine the best team then it should be against the best competition.

It wrecks college football. But it looks like that is where we are heading

 

[Irish#1]

SEC & PAC12 commissioners are going to meet with some legislature's in DC to discuss getting a leash on this NIL wildfire.

 

[ACamp1900]

In the last 30 years CFB has become the 'fix it til it's broken' champion of the freaking world... I doubt that changes any time soon no matter what they do next.

 

[stpeteirish]

SEC & PAC12 commissioners are going to meet with some legislature's in DC to discuss getting a leash on this NIL wildfire.

Republicans don’t believe in regulation. Dems can’t pass anything. No help here.

 

[IHateMarkMay]

Republicans don’t believe in regulation. Dems can’t pass anything. No help here.

Maybe if we can convince the republicans that CFB is code word for a woman's body... surely they would regulate it.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

Maybe if we can convince the republicans that CFB is code word for a woman's body... surely they would regulate it.

Yeah, or maybe if we tell the Dems that it is a white man is running CFB and therefore evil they will regulate it. Or maybe, just say that people are being misgendered and watch the epic meltdown of the left. As a man (who can get pregnant according to the left) I am glad Roe is getting taken down.

 

[stlnd01]

That escalated quickly.

All I'd add is that it seems odd that the SEC is pushing NIL regulation when it's SEC schools that are being most aggressive with it and stand the most to gain, given how it just means more, and all.

 

[Irish#1]

That escalated quickly.

All I'd add is that it seems odd that the SEC is pushing NIL regulation when it's SEC schools that are being most aggressive with it and stand the most to gain, given how it just means more, and all.

That was my initial thought, but the SEC is already at the top so there isn't a lot to gain from everything being the wild west. If Sankey really wants to form some type of super conference or split from the NCAA, what better way to get future support from the lessors than to go to bat for them now? Make a deposit in the emotional bank account for a future withdrawal.

 

[irishff1014]

SEC & PAC12 commissioners are going to meet with some legislature's in DC to discuss getting a leash on this NIL wildfire.

The politicians can’t fix the problems this country already has. So you know they can’t help here.

 

[Te'o4Heisman]

Maybe if we can convince the republicans that CFB is code word for a woman's body... surely they would regulate it.

You mean kind of like mandating people put a pretty much experimental drug with no long term testing into their bodies for 2 years. Most Dems dont realize how much they could actually probably accomplish if they weren’t such f*cking transparent hypocrites…like thinking they get to “regulate” when “my body my choice” is applicable and not.

How or why you brought this stupid shit into a conversation about the future direction of college football…

 

[Bishop2b5]

That escalated quickly.

All I'd add is that it seems odd that the SEC is pushing NIL regulation when it's SEC schools that are being most aggressive with it and stand the most to gain, given how it just means more, and all.

That was my initial thought, but the SEC is already at the top so there isn't a lot to gain from everything being the wild west. If Sankey really wants to form some type of super conference or split from the NCAA, what better way to get future support from the lessors than to go to bat for them now? Make a deposit in the emotional bank account for a future withdrawal.

I don't know if Sankey is trying to curry favor with the other programs or not (that may well be the explanation), but I know that most SEC fans I know, even if NIL and virtually unrestricted transfers are helping their team, DO NOT like what it's doing to CFB. Bama's definitely benefited from the transfer portal, the easy transfers, and we can go toe to toe with anyone on NIL money, yet Saban has been about the most consistent and vocal critic of it all, telling anyone and everyone that it's bad for CFB. I'm a huge Bama fan and am well aware that it benefits my team, yet I'm 110% opposed to what's happening. I think most fans feel that way too.

 

[IrishBoognish]

I havent read the whole thread so I apologize if this has been said already, but unrestricted free agency and unrestricted salary caps can't exist together in any sport. Its an impossible combination.

Regardless how we feel about amateurism, that's just not how sports work.

The only way this can get fixed is if the transfer portal ends... like now. And there needs to be serious implications for tampering... one school getting in a kids ear about leaving... just like pro sports.

1 year wait. I would be cool if the head coach leaves, you can transfer with no restrictions, but thats it.

Its dumb otherwise.


Restrict NIL to NIL You can't get paid until you've been at a school for at least a year.


Those two fixes, and I think we're on to something.

 

[Ndaccountant]

Can't wait for the HS draft of 2031.

 

[Irish#1]

I havent read the whole thread so I apologize if this has been said already, but unrestricted free agency and unrestricted salary caps can't exist together in any sport. Its an impossible combination.

Regardless how we feel about amateurism, that's just not how sports work.

The only way this can get fixed is if the transfer portal ends... like now. And there needs to be serious implications for tampering... one school getting in a kids ear about leaving... just like pro sports.

1 year wait. I would be cool if the head coach leaves, you can transfer with no restrictions, but thats it.

Its dumb otherwise.


Restrict NIL to NIL You can't get paid until you've been at a school for at least a year.


Those two fixes, and I think we're on to something.

Don't think that would stand up in a court of law.

 

[NDFAN2008]

The way to fix college football is simple.
1. Go back to everyone having to sit out a year if they decide to transfer. The exception would be grad transfers. This would solve a majority of the NIL problem. Whose to say if Styles comes out this year and has 1000-1200 yards receiving that a school like USC doesn't offer him 1 MIL to come play there in two years?

 

[stlnd01]

I don't know if Sankey is trying to curry favor with the other programs or not (that may well be the explanation), but I know that most SEC fans I know, even if NIL and virtually unrestricted transfers are helping their team, DO NOT like what it's doing to CFB. Bama's definitely benefited from the transfer portal, the easy transfers, and we can go toe to toe with anyone on NIL money, yet Saban has been about the most consistent and vocal critic of it all, telling anyone and everyone that it's bad for CFB. I'm a huge Bama fan and am well aware that it benefits my team, yet I'm 110% opposed to what's happening. I think most fans feel that way too.

It's not so much Bama that benefits from NIL - in my opinion - as the programs that have been failing to keep up with Bama (A&M, Tennessee, probably Auburn and the Mississippi schools). The dirtiest programs in the sport have always been the wannabes and almosttheres and this is just the latest iteration of that.

 

[NDdomer2]

this thread is what i thought it was

 

[Pokitren]

I think the transfer portal should be directly related to (1) coaching changes and (2) graduation.

If your coach leaves for another job or gets fired, you should get a free one-time transfer. This benefits the players, but also probably keeps schools from firing guys after a one or two year trial (especially schools that have no business paying millions for a buyout, then millions more for a new coach, when they aren't going to win any major trophies regardless). If you fire a guy, not only are you hoping the next guy offers a quality rebuild, but you're hoping he can fast track it by a year, because your roster is about to get pillaged by other schools. So some middling schools will ACTUALLY have to think about additional risks before making a move, which offers some stability for the players, but also gives a grace period to some potential up-and-coming coaches that might just need a year or two of extra seasoning to figure out the job.

Or, as previously/currently, you can move along without sitting out if you've graduated.

If you're just unhappy with your choice of college, or something comes up in your life that makes a transfer necessary, you can apply for a waiver... but the waiver should go through a committee NOT appointed by the NCAA, as their arbitrary, randomly-applied rulings were like 97% of the problem with the original transfer process anyway. The committee should be formed as a sort of "call up" committee to the playoff committee, that way it's made up of people with a legit interest in the sport, and they'll be motivated to pay their dues if they want to be involved with the playoff at any point.

Watching sports teams for years now, I have come to the conclusion that they just play their game, rarely do they strive to reach any peaks. They're just having a good time So when spending millions on a new team member, especially a coach, one has to ask the question: what do you want to achieve in this team and how realistic is your goal?

 

[Rogue219]

Let recruits sign whenever they are ready. No Signing Day, early Signing Day. If you want to commit to a school, you should be able to do it at any point if you've decided you are ready.

No more "non commitable" offers and at that point there is no reason for other schools to continue pursuing if a recruit wants to be left alone.

This commitable offer stuff is garbage. If you can't commit verbally and or sign at that moment, you don't have an offer in my book. This would be my advice to recruits as both a coach and or parent.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]