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You're in charge. What rule changes would you make to improve coach/player movement in college football? Here are a few ideas. Some a simple and reasonable, others are way out there meant to spur friendly debate. Provide your ideas as well.
  • Coaches at other schools are not allowed to be contacted/interviewed until all conference championship games are done. If you want to promote from within that is fine.
  • Move ESD up to end of July and limit amount of ESD spots per team. Something like 5-10/team. That way you sign your top guys you have zero doubts on, but there isn't as huge of a rush to make a coaching change early.
  • If a head coach leaves and player follows him to his new school, he must sit out a year.
  • The portal is closed during the season until all conference championship games are done. You can get a hardship waiver if there is a family emergency.
  • You have to wait two years to transfer after signing or else have to sit out a year like you used to. So after sophomore or redshirt freshman year. This reduces the numbers in the portal. Also reduces NIL shenanigans. Hardship waiver still applicable.
  • Reduce football scholarships to 80.
  • Set NIL cap. Should be reasonable to allow players to profit, but not allow insane classes like TAMU's reported $30m. Something like $50-100k max per player per year.
  • Make a commitment mean something. It's non-binding and player can still get out of it, but there would be something to sign that gives benefits to both sides, such as:
    • Player may take a second OV to the school (or maybe however many he wants; still 5 max).
    • Coach of committed school may discuss player publicly
    • Player may not take visits to other schools (OV or UV) while verbally committed to another school
    • If a player decommits, there is a mandatory waiting period before they can visit or sign with a new school, like one or two weeks. Prevents last minute trolling and flips on ESD/NSD. Exception being if there is a head coaching change.
There you go. Have at it.
 
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CreativeCane said:
You're in charge. What rule changes would you make to improve coach/player movement in college football? Here are a few ideas. Some a simple and reasonable, others are way out there meant to spur friendly debate. Provide your ideas as well.
  • Coaches at other schools are not allowed to be contacted/interviewed until all conference championship games are done. If you want to promote from within that is fine.
  • Move ESD up to end of July and limit amount of ESD spots per team. Something like 5-10/team. That way you sign your top guys you have zero doubts on, but there isn't as huge of a rush to make a coaching change early.
  • If a head coach leaves and player follows him to his new school, he must sit out a year.
  • The portal is closed during the season until all conference championship games are done. You can get a hardship waiver if there is a family emergency.
  • You have to wait two years to transfer after signing or else have to sit out a year like you used to. So after sophomore or redshirt freshman year. This reduces the numbers in the portal. Also reduces NIL shenanigans. Hardship waiver still applicable.
  • Reduce football scholarships to 80.
  • Set NIL cap. Should be reasonable to allow players to profit, but not allow insane classes like TAMU's reported $30m. Something like $50-100k max per player per year.
  • Make a commitment mean something. It's non-binding and player can still get out of it, but there would be something to sign that gives benefits to both sides, such as:
    • Player may take a second OV to the school (or maybe however many he wants; still 5 max).
    • Coach of committed school may discuss player publicly
    • Player may not take visits to other schools (OV or UV) while verbally committed to another school
    • If a player decommits, there is a mandatory waiting period before they can visit or sign with a new school, like one or two weeks. Prevents last minute trolling and flips on ESD/NSD. Exception being if there is a head coaching change.
There you go. Have at it.
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How about let's go back to the old days and you can hit players anywhere with whatever part of the body you want it's a physical game those that don't like the rules don't have to play they can be ordinary folks like the rest of us
 
If you’re going to limit NIL contracts, let’s limit coaching staff salaries too. Every school gets “x” amount to spend on coaches, assistants and support staff. Schools can break that amount up into whatever amounts they want. You want to pay your head coach ten million? Better hire a bunch of cheap assistants. You want to hire 50 “support staff” workers, you have to split the money up 50 ways.

I’m not cool with the market determining coaching salaries but players have to be regulated. Players are worth whatever someone wants to pay them. That’s how capitalism works.
 
Some decent ideas, some problematic.

I’ve been calling for roster-scholarship reductions for a awhile. Reduce scholarships to 75. This would spread the talent around CFB.

Have one NSD, the week of the NFL draft. The last part is so kids can continue their social media ‘look at me’ nonsense. No way to get rid of that.

Create a ‘league year’, like the NFL has, where the portal is open and closed. I’d start with the summer, so kids can transfer between school academic years.

Caps on coaches salaries and players NIL contracts won’t work. What legal right does CFB have to limit these? SCOTUS laughed at the NCAA and told them to GTFOH once already. I’m no lawyer, but this type of control might require collective bargaining.
 
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skyman said:
Yea for me its portal open maybe a few weeks a couple times a year. After season and after spring or summer ball.. And the 2 years before being allowed to be immediately eligible would be huge.. No team is gonna be able to build depth now, players will bounce at first sign of adversity
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or $$$
 
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Assistant coaches are tied to the land like serfs in dark ages Europe. The only way an assistant coach can take another job, including a HC job elsewhere is to defeat the HC they work for in single combat. Now, I’m open to suggests here. We could go modern MMA rules, but I think it would be more honorable to bring back 3 lance joisting.

I believe a similar process would work for the transfer portal. Instead of defeating the HC, the HC could appoint a “champion” from among the scholarship players to represent them. This would really change up recruiting as you’d want to recruit at least one equestrian in every class to keep transfers low. Also, imagine the revenue opertunities in the off-season if joists were required to transfer. Would make the pagentry of early signing day look like The special Olympics.
 
We the Boss said:
Assistant coaches are tied to the land like serfs in dark ages Europe. The only way an assistant coach can take another job, including a HC job elsewhere is to defeat the HC they work for in single combat. Now, I’m open to suggests here. We could go modern MMA rules, but I think it would be more honorable to bring back 3 lance joisting.

I believe a similar process would work for the transfer portal. Instead of defeating the HC, the HC could appoint a “champion” from among the scholarship players to represent them. This would really change up recruiting as you’d want to recruit at least one equestrian in every class to keep transfers low. Also, imagine the revenue opertunities in the off-season if joists were required to transfer. Would make the pagentry of early signing day look like The special Olympics.
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TemplarCane said:
Some decent ideas, some problematic.

I’ve been calling for roster-scholarship reductions for a awhile. Reduce scholarships to 75. This would spread the talent around CFB.

Have one NSD, the week of the NFL draft. The last part is so kids can continue their social media ‘look at me’ nonsense. No way to get rid of that.

Create a ‘league year’, like the NFL has, where the portal is open and closed. I’d start with the summer, so kids can transfer between school academic years.

Caps on coaches salaries and players NIL contracts won’t work. What legal right does CFB have to limit these? SCOTUS laughed at the NCAA and told them to GTFOH once already. I’m no lawyer, but this type of control might require collective bargaining.
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You said it, would have to be some type of CBA, because it clearly works in leagues. The fact that college coaches are paid more than NFL is insane. NFL has limits on staff, I believe. It's just a wild west right now with rich schools buying their way that smaller schools cannot compete with.
 
DTP said:
If you’re going to limit NIL contracts, let’s limit coaching staff salaries too. Every school gets “x” amount to spend on coaches, assistants and support staff. Schools can break that amount up into whatever amounts they want. You want to pay your head coach ten million? Better hire a bunch of cheap assistants. You want to hire 50 “support staff” workers, you have to split the money up 50 ways.

I’m not cool with the market determining coaching salaries but players have to be regulated. Players are worth whatever someone wants to pay them. That’s how capitalism works.
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I like this idea.
 
CreativeCane said:
You said it, would have to be some type of CBA, because it clearly works in leagues. The fact that college coaches are paid more than NFL is insane. NFL has limits on staff, I believe. It's just a wild west right now with rich schools buying their way that smaller schools cannot compete with.
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I don’t think the NFL has limits on staff, but I could be wrong.
 
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CreativeCane said:
You're in charge. What rule changes would you make to improve coach/player movement in college football? Here are a few ideas. Some a simple and reasonable, others are way out there meant to spur friendly debate. Provide your ideas as well.
  • Coaches at other schools are not allowed to be contacted/interviewed until all conference championship games are done. If you want to promote from within that is fine.
  • Move ESD up to end of July and limit amount of ESD spots per team. Something like 5-10/team. That way you sign your top guys you have zero doubts on, but there isn't as huge of a rush to make a coaching change early.
  • If a head coach leaves and player follows him to his new school, he must sit out a year.
  • The portal is closed during the season until all conference championship games are done. You can get a hardship waiver if there is a family emergency.
  • You have to wait two years to transfer after signing or else have to sit out a year like you used to. So after sophomore or redshirt freshman year. This reduces the numbers in the portal. Also reduces NIL shenanigans. Hardship waiver still applicable.
  • Reduce football scholarships to 80.
  • Set NIL cap. Should be reasonable to allow players to profit, but not allow insane classes like TAMU's reported $30m. Something like $50-100k max per player per year.
  • Make a commitment mean something. It's non-binding and player can still get out of it, but there would be something to sign that gives benefits to both sides, such as:
    • Player may take a second OV to the school (or maybe however many he wants; still 5 max).
    • Coach of committed school may discuss player publicly
    • Player may not take visits to other schools (OV or UV) while verbally committed to another school
    • If a player decommits, there is a mandatory waiting period before they can visit or sign with a new school, like one or two weeks. Prevents last minute trolling and flips on ESD/NSD. Exception being if there is a head coaching change.
There you go. Have at it.
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Dude, you should have spiked the football 13 seconds into that unlike the cowboys
 
There needs to be something put in place to create parity again. Whether that is limiting coach pay or numbers on coaching staff or NIL deals.

An on field rule change is any player hurt has to sit out the remaining drive, to stop the fake injuries.
 
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