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An IDEA for Creating Parody in CFB

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Imagine all the talented players who would lose out on nfl careers because they have to go to schools with subpar coaching.
 
TheMatador said:
Moar parody!
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NICK SABAN NAMED TO NCAA COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVE FAIRNESS
March 23, 2027
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (UT) - Following the Crimson Tide's seventh consecutive national championship victory last January, Alabama football head coach Nick Saban was named to the NCAA's new Council on Competitive Fairness. The council, which will consist of head coaches and representatives from Ohio State, Georgia, Louisiana State, and Clemson will investigate the recent phenomena of schools dropping Division 1 football and a substantial downturn in television ratings. Sources say that while the council looks forward to beginning their study, they are currently perplexed at the diminished state that collegiate football finds itself in. One reported early suggestion would be to eliminate scholarship limits, although no definitive course of action has been agreed upon.
 
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1. Reduce scholarships from 85 to 75.
2. Expand CFP to at least 8 teams (5 P5 champs, 3 at-large berths).

Both will spread the talent around. We’ve all read nearly 45-50% of the top talent signed with Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, and LSU. The first three teams have more CFP appearances. This make sense, since players want a chance at a title. I would. If teams can sign fewer players and more teams qualify for the CFP the talent ends up more widely disbursed.
 
Nothing will change to improve 'parody' in CFB as long as there's so much money at stake. The fix is easy (and admittedly a pipe dream), but it requires someone(s) with really deep pockets to start a new league(s) along the lines of the Canadian major junior hockey system (which is really quite brilliant). There's a lot of money to be made there, would bring amateurism back to NCAA/CFB, and it would put the universities out of the NFL minor leagues business (and back into the education business....imagine that concept....), but the chances of it happening are closer to none than slim.
 
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
-Voltaire

Voltaire never saw CFB in 2021 or he would have known the big battalions have all the best shooters.

As someone who has been one of CIS' most extensive posters on this subject for years, the trend is not to restrict where a student athlete can "take their talent" so this star scheme would fail. Vertically integrated and well-funded teams with highly remunerated coaching staffs are not going away unless the athletic spending caps I have written about for FOUR years are instituted. Barring that, less succesful schools in the P5 Conferences, looking at their budget shortfalls and realizing the money they get in their poorly negotiated old school media contracts doesn't allow them to be competitive, band together and fight the status quo. I would love to the unearthed corruption discovery would reveal if say Miami, BC, Syracuse, and Pitt sued to be released from their Granting Of Rights because the ACC' fiduciary ineptitude in signing to be ESECPN's JV to the SEC. Swofford's duplicity for all to see would be awesome.

Yeah, a pipe dream, Blake James couldnt fight his way out of a wet paper bag with holes cut in it...
 
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It’s funny that despite all evidence everywhere to the contrary, people still instinctively think more regulation will somehow benefit the little guys. If only we had the right regulators. Maybe Hillary Clinton could run the NCAA. I’m sure that would work out for the little teams. Wall St. only loved her because of her outfits.
 
No. Best way is the ncaa to do their dam jobs and stop allowing certain schools to get away with buying recruits while dropping the hammer on others for it. No that'll create some parity.
 
Ethnicsands said:
It’s funny that despite all evidence everywhere to the contrary, people still instinctively think more regulation will somehow benefit the little guys. If only we had the right regulators. Maybe Hillary Clinton could run the NCAA. I’m sure that would work out for the little teams. Wall St. only loved her because of her outfits.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results...The NCAA's charter is to maintain a competitive balance and it's existing framework is not doing that in CFB. Here again is my three part poston how to fix the issue. Along with competitive balance, it addresses deferred player compensation and the reality of conference media $$$.


1. Athletic Department spending caps on a per sport basis, set to allow competitive balance and sufficiency (rising proportionally to inflation each year) You get a set amount, so you have to decide how much you pay assistant coaches per annum, how much you pay for recruiting expenses per annum, how much of a new head coach will cost in the out years...Skill, as opposed to bigger schools outspending smaller schools being the deciding factor in championships. Sure, you still will have the taxpayer giving state schools an advantage in real property and pensions, but at least a lot more balanced then what happens now.

2. With spending capped to less of an insane level, the conferences will take a large share of their media rights money and set it aside to provide a post-playing career annuity to college athletes, with annuity value set by each relative sports revenue (Title IX may force a minimum). If an athlete passes before the athlete receives his full annuity, his/her beneficiary gets it. This way you keep the intrinsic student-athlete value that straight pay destroys, while compensating the athlete appropriately for the revenue thay have generated.

3. Because of the Athletic Department spending caps being universal in CFB, teams don't need to spend all of their conference share, so the conferences keep the media/merchandise excess revenue and use it to fund the annuity, on a CFB-wide universal scale. If Conference A has more money than Conference B after the annuity payouts, the remaining money is then evenly divided between Conference A's member schools NON-athletic scholarship funds.
 
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PredaCane said:
No. Best way is the ncaa to do their dam jobs and stop allowing certain schools to get away with buying recruits while dropping the hammer on others for it. No that'll create some parity.
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you think only alabama, ohio state and clemson get away with bags?
 
Expand the playoff. Possibly cut 10 scholarships or penalize teams for over signing kids. That would even things out more bc players would have to spread out more
 
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Ethnicsands said:
It’s funny that despite all evidence everywhere to the contrary, people still instinctively think more regulation will somehow benefit the little guys. If only we had the right regulators. Maybe Hillary Clinton could run the NCAA. I’m sure that would work out for the little teams. Wall St. only loved her because of her outfit
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Ethnicsands said:
It’s funny that despite all evidence everywhere to the contrary, people still instinctively think more regulation will somehow benefit the little guys. If only we had the right regulators. Maybe Hillary Clinton could run the NCAA. I’m sure that would work out for the little teams. Wall St. only loved her because of her outfits.
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She would just suicide the competition LOL
 
CaneFan79 said:
We are not talking Nixon Shock of '70 or the later '73-'74 controls (I lived through them both) but a business controlling costs...That's why they have accountants and budgets.

https://onlinesportmanagement.ku.edu/community/salary-caps-in-sports

Did you not get past the Anal Stage as a toddler?
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You're just wrong. This has nothing to do with controlling costs. Do you just say that or did you think about it?

Your stated goal is to support competition. Salary caps control costs but actually entrench the positions of highest revenue teams - they just improve the economics of the non-competitive teams.

That you lived through the Nixon era is irrelevant. The question is whether you learned from it.
 
Ethnicsands said:
you think only alabama, ohio state and clemson get away with bags?
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Not at all. But I know MIAMI can't jaywalk without the NCAA crawling up our butts with a microscope while other schools, particularly the SEC can get away with anything.
 
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