FC/OT: NCAA wants kids in college forever it seems…
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Once a student athlete turns 24, that should be the end of their eligibility. Indiana has a punter who is 27. College football should be played by 18-23 year olds. Just my opinion.
So it’s basically 5 years of competition.
Well you are going to love our next punter. I think it is a different case if you have started college at an older age versus stringing the damn thing along.
With the transfer portal and the money being paid, there should be no redshirt year…four years and you’re done.
so one can't join the military after high school, then go to college and play football?
What's it matter - it isn't "college football" anymore. The players are professionals competing in National Minor-League Football. Seasoned professionals have displaced the importance of high school players. This isn't amateur college football, so why pretend it is?
Whoever would’ve thought that a lot of college players would be getting paid more than a lot of NFL players who play the same position? The linebacker from Pitt who is transferring is going to make more next season than Jack Sawyer will for the Steelers.
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NFL has a rule that requires a player to be 3 years out of high school (or at least his class) before he is eligible to enter the NFL. Why do you think that rule is on place?
Hold on.....that was something that was passed in committee within the ACFA. I don't think it's gotten to NCAA level yet.
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There really is no incentive to leave college if a kid can make almost as much or more in college than he would as a rookie in the NFL. It's insane.
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If any program needs a 61 year old slightly asthmatic linebacker, I am your guy! All I require is 1/10th of the NIL deal Dante Moore is getting! I come cheap!
Oh, and we have to agree I can take a nap in between plays.
TYVM.
Oh, and we have to agree I can take a nap in between plays.
TYVM.
Rocco: Coach, Dante Moore just got $7.5 million from oregon. What about me?
Campbell: Come on, Rocco. This is Penn State. Don’t be stupid.
Rocco:
Campbell: Come on, Rocco. This is Penn State. Don’t be stupid.
Rocco:
Too lenient.
If you're 22 or older before the academic year (or set a hard and fast substitute date, like Aug. 1 of that year) begins, you're ineligible to play a college sport that year.
In the interests of appeasing the whiners, maybe I can be convinced to support age 23 ... but that still leaves a ton of room for folks who flunk their kids on purpose to gain an advantage, or for coaches to manipulate that system to gain an extra year from kids.
And, for anyone saying "but this isn't fair to blah, blah, blah." Tough. You go to high school. Graduate at age 18. You have 4 years from there to play a college sport. The end. You get hurt and lose a year? Oh well. You're not developed enough at age 19? Oh well. You go on a mission? Oh well.
It shouldn't be the case that normal, functional humans who go to school when they're supposed to, graduate when they're supposed to should have to compete against lil Braden, whose daddy thought he was special, so they started him a year late ... then reclassed him before high school ... then had him take a postgrad year ... then was redshirted his first year of college ... then got a medical redshirt ... and now, he's a 27-year old "senior" competing against 18-22 year olds.
yep and people complaining that PS isnt out getting big time portal guys because they have 30 million... 30 million is nothing right now. I bet it wont get them in the top 20 of NIL amounts. Probably not even top 5 in the BIG (OSU, Oregon, USC, dUMb, IU).
Oregon, OSU, the Texas schools and a bunch in the SEC will be over 50 Mill
That effectively gives BYU and Utah the death penalty.
And sucked from the very first snap - that pass on the very first play for a Pick-6 was brutal.
Who go to school when they're supposed to??? Huh? Whaaaaa??? When are "you supposed to" go to Grad School? How about if you wish to pursue a Doctorate Degree - what age do you have to be?
There is zero evidence that you're going to be a better player when you're 24, 25, 26 or 27 then when you're 22 or 23. The restriction on years of eligibility had to do with ensuring that CFB remained an amateur league - they're all Professional Athletes now, so it's rather absurd to say you'll allow this professional mercenary or that professional mercenary, but you won't allow this one??? Who the f cares at this point and what difference does it make whether they're using only 18-23 year olds in Professional Football League???
Alabama and Texas have had the highest paid roster the last several years - it guarantees you nothing when all of the best players as are Free Agents and the vast majority are coming from non-p4 schools.... have developed at non-P4 schools..... and it isn't precisely clear who "the best" players are at each position (Indiana's QB and best receiver are perfect examples of this - do you really believe Indiana paid them millions to transfer? Or anywhere close to $7.5 million to stay on their roster this year?).
Paying Moore $7.5 million to play next year is a massive waste of money as last Friday proved and certainly doesn't give Oregon some leg-up next year LMAO. Easy to go blow $50 million in the Free Agent market, but not easy to build a Championship team and just stupidly burning $$$ in the Free Agency market certainly doesn't guarantee it.
Kids these days just want to stay in school. They don’t want to grow up and get a job.
So, if a kid goes into the military first and enters college at 23-24 years old, they should be penalized for their choice even though they have all their eligibility.
Men vs. boys.
I'm in the 9th grade, that flunked 6th grade 3 times. I should be able to brutalize a younger kid with talent. So I do it!
I'm Mr football in 12th grade, because of my ability at 23?
“College” football? Sure it is.
Why worry about years of eligibility, qualifying grades, and eligibility?
It’s minor league football, so call it what it is and drop this silly academic nonsense.
If you enjoy it I am glad for you. We all need hobbies and distractions from real life. Let’s drop this laughable academic stuff.
If a player can play, but he is not NFL major league quality, allow him to play what used to be college football. People will watch and enjoy it.
We all know some guys who didnt physically mature until their twenties. Let those guys have the time they need to be ready for “college” football.
For a baseball fix and an affordable alternative to MLB people go to Lancaster Barnstormers games, where the average player is probably over 25. Every once in a while a player from Lancaster gets onto a needy major league roster. I can see the “college” game headed to that model.
Why worry about years of eligibility, qualifying grades, and eligibility?
It’s minor league football, so call it what it is and drop this silly academic nonsense.
If you enjoy it I am glad for you. We all need hobbies and distractions from real life. Let’s drop this laughable academic stuff.
If a player can play, but he is not NFL major league quality, allow him to play what used to be college football. People will watch and enjoy it.
We all know some guys who didnt physically mature until their twenties. Let those guys have the time they need to be ready for “college” football.
For a baseball fix and an affordable alternative to MLB people go to Lancaster Barnstormers games, where the average player is probably over 25. Every once in a while a player from Lancaster gets onto a needy major league roster. I can see the “college” game headed to that model.
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