rduck
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What division did Alabama win?
you are correct sir... my bad:lafffacepalm:
What division did Alabama win?
There are a ton of small markets out there with nothing better to do. In Canada and USA there are like 30 cities with no NFL teams that have over a population of a million in metropolitan areas. You could always play these games on Friday night, too, who cares about high school football.:biggthumpup:Who watches the NBA Developmental league?
They get nationally televised games playing to empty arenas.
It might not get a lot of TV time, but people would watch it for the same reasons they watch minor league baseball. There are lots of remote areas hungry for professional sports of any kind. Even in citie with professional teams some prefer the accessibility of the minor league games. There is a lot of turnover from year to year, just like in college. So that helps raise the local interest in how the new team will perform.
Who knows? If top talent stopped going to college teams then THAT might be what fewer people watched.
Take all the players of the Bama team that are not inerested in getting a college education and start a local professional team. Do you think more people would still watch the Tide with its leftover players or the new professional team?
No one watches minor league baseball or MLS but it still works, especially in smaller markets like a Portland or say a San Antonio. It doesn't have to have large salaries either. A $35,000 to $50,000 job to play football straight out of high school doesn't sound too bad to a 17 or 18 year old, either. Keep the league to a 22 year old max age, and if the NFL poaches anyone, have a payout clause. You could draft college athletes, too. My dream would be to take some of that undeveloped talent away from SEC schools. This would be the best thing to happen to Tech football.
Yes it is, for me at least. I'd rather win it with true student athletes than with dumbing our school down to get the best athletes. I love college football, but I really think there are a ton of athletes who have no business in college.Is this really how we want to win championships? And if we did win it, who the heck would be that excited about it? Why don't we just drop to DII and get it over with then...
The reason conference affiliation is important is it is the only normalizing factor in comparing teams across conferences without enough inter-conference play. There is not even enough inter-division play to absolutely rank teams in a conference.
There will always be speculation that a one or two loss team from a powerful conference is better than an undefeated team from another. But you know the ranking within any conference based on the results and the championship game. Second place in a division may also be the second best team and better than the other division champion, or it may not be. But it has not earned the right to play for the championship and so cannot be the champion.
In similar fashion, no team that cannot win its conference should play for the national championship. They all had a fair chance to win the conference and failed. They may be the second best team in the nation or they may not, but we know they failed the first test.
The only reliable way to determine a champion between conferences that do not play common games is to play it out between champions, just as they play out the division winners for the conference championship.
Of course, I favor the abolishment of the old conferences anyway. Just divide all the teams into regional divisions and conferences and end the silliness of nationwide conferences. It would save everyone a lot of travel and rebuild natural rivalries. The tradition of the old conferences became a thing of the past when the expansion and poaching wars began. They are all now just competing leagues for television revenue. Take the commissioners out of the equation and just divide everybody regionally and we will actually come closer to the old conference origins.
Who watches the NBA Developmental league?
They get nationally televised games playing to empty arenas.
It might not get a lot of TV time, but people would watch it for the same reasons they watch minor league baseball. There are lots of remote areas hungry for professional sports of any kind. Even in citie with professional teams some prefer the accessibility of the minor league games. There is a lot of turnover from year to year, just like in college. So that helps raise the local interest in how the new team will perform.
Who knows? If top talent stopped going to college teams then THAT might be what fewer people watched.
Take all the players of the Bama team that are not inerested in getting a college education and start a local professional team. Do you think more people would still watch the Tide with its leftover players or the new professional team?
I still have a hard time seeing a one or even a two loss Irish team being left out, regardless of how many undefeated teams are left. They have tons of pull with voters and ratings.
Yes it is, for me at least. I'd rather win it with true student athletes than with dumbing our school down to get the best athletes. I love college football, but I really think there are a ton of athletes who have no business in college.
I don't think college football appreciation would hurt at all. At least in the south. College baseball and basketball aren't as exciting because it's basketball and baseball.I understand your point of view. I was thinking about how it would effect the college game and the interest in it. One of the best things going for college football over college basketball and baseball is the fact that the top players are mostly there for 3-4 years. You don't have the turnover in top players like you do in the other sports. And yes, the kids that went to college instead of the developmental league would be there longer, but the talent and the level of the game would suffer greatly IMO...
.The NBA Development League is exactly how we know an NFL development league won't work, at least not in the way you're suggesting. No player has ever skipped college into order to play in that league.
They could certainly start an NFL developmental league, but its existence would have exactly 0 impact on college football. In fact, it might look a little like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe
The NBA Development League is exactly how we know an NFL development league won't work, at least not in the way you're suggesting. No player has ever skipped college into order to play in that league.
They could certainly start an NFL developmental league, but its existence would have exactly 0 impact on college football. In fact, it might look a little like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe
It would work if it mirrored minor league baseball. And it would have a huge impact on college football. The 70-80% of players whose only goal is to get to the NFL would take the signing bonuses and start their NFL auditions and never attend college.
That would require the NFL to reduce their age limit though, no? The only players who get huge signing bonuses to go to the minors aren't usually spending three years in the minors. I don't really see a reason for the NFL to do that.
so are you agreeing with Andrew? Because I thought you were saying that you thought the developmental league would bring down the talent of the SEC and other factories in favor of schools like GT. Based on his quote, he is saying it would not. Now if you are talking about the kids who do not belong in college going there, that is another thing. But even still, the factories have been finding ways to get these kids into school for years.
Just trying to understand the point of your last post...
The NBA Development League is exactly how we know an NFL development league won't work, at least not in the way you're suggesting. No player has ever skipped college into order to play in that league.
They could certainly start an NFL developmental league, but its existence would have exactly 0 impact on college football. In fact, it might look a little like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe