After the Campbell deal and watching the football playoff show today, the thought occurred to me, "how do we fix this mess?" So here is what I am thinking.
1. Hire a commissioner that is in overall charge of the sport, this person would have the final say in any problem, over the conference commissioners, the networks and everything related to college football
2. Set the calendar. Coaches can only be hired from January 1st till February 1st, I know that might harm teams in the playoff, but if you are playing in the playoff you are most likely not going to be leaving for another school. Transfer portal runs from February 1st to March 1st. Before spring practice and after the coaching window. Signing day for all high school players starts March 1st till, March 15th. The HS player knows who the coach will be and which players the team has brought in out of the portal.
3. All players have to sign a 2 year contract with the school, leave after a year, you lose a year of eligibility, all players have 5 years to play 5 seasons. That is all you get, you get hurt and lose a year, sorry, 5 is all you get.
4. NIL, football teams are allowed 20 million total for pay for play, that is your entire budget, you want to spend $6 million on the Manning kid, have at it, but you only have $14 million for the rest of the roster. Money is paid out one year at a time, over the life of the 5 years, you leave early to the NFL, you miss out on the remaining funds.
5. All teams will play a 12 games schedule only against P4 schools and a list of the best 20 G5 schools. Every team will play 6 home and 6 away games, and. nine conference games, The other three games will be determined by how you finish in your league. Much like the NFL, if you are Georgia and win the SEC, then next year your schedule is Duke, Indiana and TT. Alabama you get Ohio State, Virginia and BYU and right down the list.
6. All media contracts are equal for all teams in the leagues, worked out by the overall commissioner, so ESPN is not paired up with the SEC or Fox with the B10, you are working with college football inc.
7. 16 team playoff, B10 and SEC get 4 spots, ACC and B12 get 2 each, that is 12 spots, leaving 4 other spots for ND, G5 schools and the rest. All teams that win their league get in, and the top 8 teams host the first round games.
Everything is based on the NFL model and is designed to make all the games as combative as possible with fewer haves and have nots. Now I do not expect any of this to actually happen, but something must be done to fix the sport. Agree, disagree, but please leave some feedback.
1. Hire a commissioner that is in overall charge of the sport, this person would have the final say in any problem, over the conference commissioners, the networks and everything related to college football
2. Set the calendar. Coaches can only be hired from January 1st till February 1st, I know that might harm teams in the playoff, but if you are playing in the playoff you are most likely not going to be leaving for another school. Transfer portal runs from February 1st to March 1st. Before spring practice and after the coaching window. Signing day for all high school players starts March 1st till, March 15th. The HS player knows who the coach will be and which players the team has brought in out of the portal.
3. All players have to sign a 2 year contract with the school, leave after a year, you lose a year of eligibility, all players have 5 years to play 5 seasons. That is all you get, you get hurt and lose a year, sorry, 5 is all you get.
4. NIL, football teams are allowed 20 million total for pay for play, that is your entire budget, you want to spend $6 million on the Manning kid, have at it, but you only have $14 million for the rest of the roster. Money is paid out one year at a time, over the life of the 5 years, you leave early to the NFL, you miss out on the remaining funds.
5. All teams will play a 12 games schedule only against P4 schools and a list of the best 20 G5 schools. Every team will play 6 home and 6 away games, and. nine conference games, The other three games will be determined by how you finish in your league. Much like the NFL, if you are Georgia and win the SEC, then next year your schedule is Duke, Indiana and TT. Alabama you get Ohio State, Virginia and BYU and right down the list.
6. All media contracts are equal for all teams in the leagues, worked out by the overall commissioner, so ESPN is not paired up with the SEC or Fox with the B10, you are working with college football inc.
7. 16 team playoff, B10 and SEC get 4 spots, ACC and B12 get 2 each, that is 12 spots, leaving 4 other spots for ND, G5 schools and the rest. All teams that win their league get in, and the top 8 teams host the first round games.
Everything is based on the NFL model and is designed to make all the games as combative as possible with fewer haves and have nots. Now I do not expect any of this to actually happen, but something must be done to fix the sport. Agree, disagree, but please leave some feedback.
