Refrigeraider

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Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.

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I like this idea.

What would the NFL do if they couldn't get players from college?

64 team league.
No salary cap.
No eligibility rules.
Top 16 play a bracket like March madness.
Number 63 and 64 ranked teams play in game like an under card to the national championship game. Loser is out of the 64 team league and the 65th rank team gets promoted up to the league of 64.
Limit transfers to once every 5 years.
Allow the younger players to develop at the smaller schools and junior colleges.

Just lean into it. Ty Simpson is taking a potential pay cut to play in the NFL. Why?
Median salary in the NFL is between $800k-$1m.
Universities can do better than that.

Allow players to enter the draft and find out what they are going to make. If they don't like the terms, come back and play college. That is until there is no longer a draft.

Whatever entity arises from the death of the NCAA in this scenario would have huge leverage over the NFL.

Play football on Saturday, but play all the mid-tier games on Mon-Thur. Spread this tv revenue to the lower 64. Fan interest in scouting and over all interest in college football would drive viewership. It also allows extensive development and surveillance of performance. If there's an 18 year old stud, and a team in the 64 wants to sign him out of high school, allow it.
Allow teams to bring up guys from junior colleges and lower 64 teams mid-season in case of injury.

Force the NFL to adapt or die.
Players will take guarantees over potential NFL salaries. If Simpson isn't drafted until the 2nd day, hes going to leave A LOT of money on the table.

I'm not a huge NFL fan, and I would love to see it die a slow painful death.

Fact is... The NFL doesn't develop talent. It has relied on the NCAA as long as it's been around. I say hell with them. Let the players decide. Create a new league. I didn't graduate college until I was nearly 30. We are paying players now. That's never going away. Why send the best players to the NFL? Keep them in school. Let the woke NFL die.

TV will eventually come in and give money to the 64 team league. BIG money. Share the revenue equally. Balance the scales. Let the donors pay the guys in the junior colleges to develop and act as feeders to their school in the big 64. Have the players age out on their own.

Avg time in the NFL is only 3.3 years. Yes, guys play longer but not the vast majority. This would happen in the 64 too. There wouldn't be many guys playing until they were 40. And if they did, so what?

If every team had the same money to spend guys would play for the team they loved. They'd play for pride and money. Isn't that what we all want? Guys to play for Alabama because they love it?

I like Mack. I think reps matter. Mack has been in the system longer. I think he's the guy, and I think he understands what the system should look like. He's mobile. He can make all the throws. I don't see him regressing as the year progresses.

I think it's going to be interesting to see if Cignetti can keep this thing going. I believe he caught lightning in a bottle this year.

Mendoza is a really smart guy. And athletic. Not that many of those out there. He keeps them out of negative plays and doesn't seem shakable. That's rare as well. And his receivers catch everything.

But how does Cignetti deal with an injury? He doesn't play that many guys in games on offense or defense.
How does he deal with getting his arse beat?
And it is going to happen. Eventually IU is going to go into a game half-cocked and get smoked. What's his response to that?

I am interested to see IU in 2026. My guess is they revert big time.

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A Pro Bowler who was the former no.2 overall draft pick with 4 years starting experience (Mitch Trubisky)

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I wouldn't care for the odds of Buffalo winning in Denver if Trubisky had to come off the bench for Allen in that game. ProBowl or not. Buffalo's run game has suffered with Cook hobbled as well. No matter how many guys they can sign off the practice squad or from out of retirement, the replacements are very rarely any good.

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but NFL teams have the luxury of signing practice squad players from other teams, can trade players, and just sign unsigned players.

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This is definitely the rub. So, coaches are going to have to fill their rosters with "practice squad" type guys along with their actual rosters before the season starts.

Does anyone really expect to win anything of note with injuries? Saban, yeah. Well, he could stack talent. Can't do that anymore. Gotta play the best guys you can afford, hopefully avoid the injury bug and develop talent in the off-season and in any blow outs you can muster.

There just isn't any other way I can see for Alabama to compete with the big money schools.

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8 OL is plenty, 5 WRs are plenty, 3-4 RBs.


Man I hope you are trolling

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Cignetti doesn't play a bunch of players. Mendoza plays just about every snap of every game. No matter the score. Only like 13 guys play on defense.

He has built an NFL team. NFL teams don't have depth. Teams lose players and they are nearly always replaced by a 21 year-old rookie. Who is Josh Allen's backup in Buffalo?

I couldn't tell you with a gun to my head.

Gotta just build a 2-deep and if somebody gets hurt, start planning for next year.

Nah. I am a fan of raiding the fridge, though.