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Promotion/relegation in college football? Game-changing idea could help save Pac-12
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My issue with relegation is thatit just doesn't work on the 4-5 year cycle college sports is supposed to work on. Some schools would sustain it, sure, but most the others bounce around a bit class to class.
I wish the NFL would step in and just declare the NCAA a development league, and move on. Let the branding stay with the schools or whatever, still allow the athletes to attend school. But making it a requirement in an environment where it's increasingly hard to manage both school and playing along with the (let's be honest) sham education being provided at times is stupid as fuck. Idk a better system, because I don't think it should be like a HS player draft, and people going to school for the education while also being able to play would get shafted by that. But maybe like a "league designation" or something where the players are tagged by a franchise as a developmental player and given a stipend and some access to player advocates or something, both to show mutual interest in a continued career and to help drive home the point that you aren't guaranteed to make it. Maybe take school seriously.
That's also just me rambling about shit above my pay grade though.
I mostly agree, though I'd draw a distinction between a minor league (think baseball) and a "lower league" and I'd want to avoid to many direct relationships between CFb and the NFL. For me, a lower league still matters because winning the prize in reach is its own reward, and development is a side effect that happens in the pursuit of winning.
Given recruiting, there's a bit of chicken and egg, but if the triple option still won natties, then top teams would still use it, draft status be damned. Meanwhile, the Crash Davises of the world get drummed out of Minor League baseball because being a "AA+" player stops being important the moment you're too old to develop any farther, despite it being enough to win AA games. I'd rather watch semi-pro indy league baseball than the most stacked AAA team ever.
There are just an incredible number of things to account for, most of which are complicated by the fact that this billion dollar industry is tied to state universities and other colleges, and all the fun that comes along with it.