Post by darvon on Mar 13, 2010 18:50:58 GMT -6
One of my pet peeves with the NCAA is that is wanders back and forth between being a "league" and only being a "standards committee". Each come with plusses and minusses. They flick back and forth based upon which reality they wish to avoid.
IF the NCAA was a league, where they make the rules in order to promote competition "for the good of the game", then I have an interesting idea.
An NCAA Draft for D1 College Football and Basketball.
Why? Simple:
- An EXPLOSION of new marketing/media content to sell to create NCAA $$.
- Crushes all the "backroom"/AAU/payola sleeze that exists in Football/Basketball now. Almost all NCAA infractions in the past 40 years of note are recruiting infractions.
- A smoothing of the talent across D1 teams. Suddenly Boise State is insured of at least 1 Five Star and USC doesn't get 20. Suddenly talent evaluation and coaching matter, just like the NFL.
- Finally an NCAA sanction with some teeth. Currently the NCAA has no way to punish a team that works. Taking away past wins is a yawner. Reducing scholarships doesn't work in football, because most teams now don't use all of theirs. And taking teams off TV is difficult when there are things like BigTenNetwork. What does "off TV" actually MEAN anymore? ABC? ESPN?BTN? CBS.COM? Verizon wireless? EA Sports? And the death penalty is too draconian to use. So now losing a 4th round draft pick is a real threat, without being so powerful as to make it not useful.
How would it work? Simple. Just like the NFL draft. Maybe random order, rather than reverse. You can trade out year picks for picks (but not for players).
But WAIT! You say how can I FORCE someone to go to school XYZ? You don't. You just limit his eligibility in his Freshman and Sophmore years to the school he was drafted by. In turn he gets a guaranteed 2 year ride, as opposed to the 1 year ride guaranteed in the current system. The NCAA has been the clearing house for eligibility for decades. Nothing new here.
Just think of it. High School Combines. More Mel Kipers. No more payola. No more houses for Reggie Bush's parents. PLUS coaches salaries come down. No more Sonny Vacaros.
wheeeeee....
IF the NCAA was a league, where they make the rules in order to promote competition "for the good of the game", then I have an interesting idea.
An NCAA Draft for D1 College Football and Basketball.
Why? Simple:
- An EXPLOSION of new marketing/media content to sell to create NCAA $$.
- Crushes all the "backroom"/AAU/payola sleeze that exists in Football/Basketball now. Almost all NCAA infractions in the past 40 years of note are recruiting infractions.
- A smoothing of the talent across D1 teams. Suddenly Boise State is insured of at least 1 Five Star and USC doesn't get 20. Suddenly talent evaluation and coaching matter, just like the NFL.
- Finally an NCAA sanction with some teeth. Currently the NCAA has no way to punish a team that works. Taking away past wins is a yawner. Reducing scholarships doesn't work in football, because most teams now don't use all of theirs. And taking teams off TV is difficult when there are things like BigTenNetwork. What does "off TV" actually MEAN anymore? ABC? ESPN?BTN? CBS.COM? Verizon wireless? EA Sports? And the death penalty is too draconian to use. So now losing a 4th round draft pick is a real threat, without being so powerful as to make it not useful.
How would it work? Simple. Just like the NFL draft. Maybe random order, rather than reverse. You can trade out year picks for picks (but not for players).
But WAIT! You say how can I FORCE someone to go to school XYZ? You don't. You just limit his eligibility in his Freshman and Sophmore years to the school he was drafted by. In turn he gets a guaranteed 2 year ride, as opposed to the 1 year ride guaranteed in the current system. The NCAA has been the clearing house for eligibility for decades. Nothing new here.
Just think of it. High School Combines. More Mel Kipers. No more payola. No more houses for Reggie Bush's parents. PLUS coaches salaries come down. No more Sonny Vacaros.
wheeeeee....