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The Human Q-Tip said:
I don't think colleges should be able to pay players, but I agree with the rest of it. Make them draftable/signable upon graduation from high school, and let them go to college if they don't get signed/drafted.
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The problem with this is it would seriously fuck up the recruiting process and cause serious harm to the college game. If you can still go to college after not getting drafted, then why wouldn’t every player just enter the draft as there’s zero risk?

The draft is in April. What happens if half your recruiting class goes in the draft? I guess you could say if a player signs an LOI then they’re no longer eligible for the draft?

Having trouble working through it in my head to figure out how that makes sense.
 
Bob_The_Cat said:
The problem with this is it would seriously fuck up the recruiting process and cause serious harm to the college game. If you can still go to college after not getting drafted, then why wouldn’t every player just enter the draft as there’s zero risk?

The draft is in April. What happens if half your recruiting class goes in the draft? I guess you could say if a player signs an LOI then they’re no longer eligible for the draft?

Having trouble working through it in my head to figure out how that makes sense.
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I would think colleges would have to adapt to not 100% counting on players who are likely to be drafted straight from HS. I can't imagine there would be more than a handful, at least for a while until the NFL figured out how to handle a larger influx.
 
Bob_The_Cat said:
The problem with this is it would seriously fuck up the recruiting process and cause serious harm to the college game. If you can still go to college after not getting drafted, then why wouldn’t every player just enter the draft as there’s zero risk?

The draft is in April. What happens if half your recruiting class goes in the draft? I guess you could say if a player signs an LOI then they’re no longer eligible for the draft?

Having trouble working through it in my head to figure out how that makes sense.
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Good point. Maybe the LOI idea, or require an early declaration for the draft - like by December 31 or something.

I suppose the other issue is that the top talents - the most highly recruited ones - are almost certain to get drafted anyway, so it's not like you have to wait for the actual draft to know that you won't have them.

I just think it is wrong to require college first - especially for kids for whom college academically is just a waste of everyone's time. Just let them play pro ball if they're good enough.
 
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The Human Q-Tip said:
Good point. Maybe the LOI idea, or require an early declaration for the draft - like by December 31 or something.

I suppose the other issue is that the top talents - the most highly recruited ones - are almost certain to get drafted anyway, so it's not like you have to wait for the actual draft to know that you won't have them.

I just think it is wrong to require college first - especially for kids for whom college academically is just a waste of everyone's time. Just let them play pro ball if they're good enough.
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Every single year there are exactly ZERO high school graduates who are good enough to make the 53-man roster of ANY team in the NFL. ZERO.
 
Cratylus said:
Every single year there are exactly ZERO high school graduates who are good enough to make the 53-man roster of ANY team in the NFL. ZERO.
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Beanie Wells is the only kid I can remember coming out of HS that I thought could've played in the NFL immediately. But part of that might have been seeing him in street clothes at an event and realizing his thighs were the size of my torso..
 
Scrote Squad said:
Beanie Wells is the only kid I can remember coming out of HS that I thought could've played in the NFL immediately. But part of that might have been seeing him in street clothes at an event and realizing his thighs were the size of my torso..
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We have to remember that only about 1% of FBS and FCS players get drafted in any given year. And those are the absolute best of the best - the literal all-stars of college football. The worst NFL team in any given year would absolutely demolish that season's best college football team. Now we're trying to imagine a scenario where a newly graduated high school senior is better than 99% of college football players.

No chance.

Not Beanie Wells. Not Bo Jackson. Not Herschel Walker. Not even Orlando Pace.

OK, maybe Orlando Pace.
 
Cratylus said:
We have to remember that only about 1% of FBS and FCS players get drafted in any given year. And those are the absolute best of the best - the literal all-stars of college football. The worst NFL team in any given year would absolutely demolish that season's best college football team. Now we're trying to imagine a scenario where a newly graduated high school senior is better than 99% of college football players.

No chance.

Not Beanie Wells. Not Bo Jackson. Not Herschel Walker. Not even Orlando Pace.

OK, maybe Orlando Pace.
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I would say the caveat here would probably be QB’s due to the value of the position. They may never play, but I guarantee teams would at the very least be drafting the 5-Star qbs and parking them on their bench to develop.

But yeah, most kids with D1 scholarships couldn’t make the CFL or XFL, let alone the NFL. I think teams would have to expand practice squads and add a certain number of practice squad players that could be protected or named Two-Way like the NBA.
 
Cratylus said:
Every single year there are exactly ZERO high school graduates who are good enough to make the 53-man roster of ANY team in the NFL. ZERO.
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Yes...but I don't think that would stop NFL teams from drafting the cream of the crop at some positions and essentially stashing them if rosters were expanded. I think it probably would work best for positions where college is more valuable for physical maturation than for development of on-field skills. So maybe running backs, for example.

But I do agree with your general point, which is kind of why I think it's a good idea. Having the right to be drafted if you are good enough, and if a team wants you, takes a bit of the sting out of the "exploitation" line of reasoning.
 
ticon12389 said:
His uncle was already working there, I highly doubt he goes to Nebraska
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Fairly certain he will attend Nebraska, from what I’m hearing they were always leaning that way. Rhule retained his uncle, his family didn’t like Frost, and his dad is a former Nebraska All American football player.
 
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