Now that we enjoy watching a game live or on TV and quickly/easily seeing who made the catch or tackle b/c names are on the back! I have a new "dream change" wish that the NCAA would limit mens D1 FB scholarships from current 85 total, to as low as 70, or at least down to 75-80.
First of all, given the expense of all that goes into a scholly player, that would seemingly save all D1 FB programs money and/or allow them to divert $ to possibly other male/female sports for schollys.
But more importantly, given an NFL team is 55 players, why do colleges need 85? By cutting 5-15 which could be eased into over a few years, the parity in college FB would be awesome, just awesome! Why? Because then the Top 5-10 programs would be diluted a bit and not the same old teams every year (AL, OSU, Clemson, GA, Penn St, LSU).
Follow the math, in the B10 alone, if they cut it to 75 players, and you took the "bottom 10" players from OSU, UM, Wiscy, Penn St, - that's 40 players. Which really means 40 future recruits who didn't have a spot for them at the big 4 schools in B10. And given t there are 14 schools, minus those four schools, that means the remaining 10 schools would potentially have four: high 3* to 4* recruits potentially per team! So IU could get four more Penix/S James caliber players ON TOP of our normal best recruiting. Or said another way, those top four new kids would replace our bottom four recruits each year, and now, at every school, your'e talking about stacking some darn good classes pretty quickly.
That math would play out all over college FB, so Alabama, LSU, GA and Clemson would free up their recruits now to go to other schools. It would be a domino effect of talent being spread out among more teams, and yes, would even trickle down to B10 caliber players having to go MAC, and guess what, those teams would be better too.
This year's top 20, take away 10 players each, and there are then 200 players that would find homes at likely the next ranked 21-40 teams, and suddenly, the parity and drama of College FB would be even better. We see it in college basketball, why not do the same for FB?
First of all, given the expense of all that goes into a scholly player, that would seemingly save all D1 FB programs money and/or allow them to divert $ to possibly other male/female sports for schollys.
But more importantly, given an NFL team is 55 players, why do colleges need 85? By cutting 5-15 which could be eased into over a few years, the parity in college FB would be awesome, just awesome! Why? Because then the Top 5-10 programs would be diluted a bit and not the same old teams every year (AL, OSU, Clemson, GA, Penn St, LSU).
Follow the math, in the B10 alone, if they cut it to 75 players, and you took the "bottom 10" players from OSU, UM, Wiscy, Penn St, - that's 40 players. Which really means 40 future recruits who didn't have a spot for them at the big 4 schools in B10. And given t there are 14 schools, minus those four schools, that means the remaining 10 schools would potentially have four: high 3* to 4* recruits potentially per team! So IU could get four more Penix/S James caliber players ON TOP of our normal best recruiting. Or said another way, those top four new kids would replace our bottom four recruits each year, and now, at every school, your'e talking about stacking some darn good classes pretty quickly.
That math would play out all over college FB, so Alabama, LSU, GA and Clemson would free up their recruits now to go to other schools. It would be a domino effect of talent being spread out among more teams, and yes, would even trickle down to B10 caliber players having to go MAC, and guess what, those teams would be better too.
This year's top 20, take away 10 players each, and there are then 200 players that would find homes at likely the next ranked 21-40 teams, and suddenly, the parity and drama of College FB would be even better. We see it in college basketball, why not do the same for FB?
