Reforming College Football

[GP1]

..... Moralist guy needs to stay away. If moralist guy had any real morality, he would see the inequity and demand the players get paid on some level beyond the scholarship.

Pesky moralists. Always preaching about trying to maintain higher standards of right and wrong behavior.

I'm not much of a moralist, but I remember people used to wear things that had WWJD on them. I wonder if he would see the inequity in the current situation and be offended by it, or if he would see the inequity as a method of setting standards of right and wrong behavior. Just kind of typing out loud.....

[Dave in Green]

On a prioritized WWJD list of the worst inequities to correct in the modern world, paying cash to college athletes to supplement their free scholarships would probably rank somewhere in the neighborhood of providing free tanning salon passes to all Ohio residents every winter.

[johnnyzip84]

I saw this on CNNSI.com so I thought I would post it here. It's dated Feb 17, so GP1 beat this guy to the punch. While I'm not in favor of it (for selfish reasons as a Zip fan I suppose), I do understand that something like this makes a lot of sense and might not be avoidable down the road. I still say the biggest problem is determining who get into the "club".Link

[Zipmeister]

Guns in the locker room won't do anything to level the playing field. If you want to make games more competitive, the rules should be altered to allow an underdog to commit a prescribed number of penalties with no punishment. I will leave it to you to determine how the exact number of waived penalties should be determined (perhaps based on point spread) and when a penalty should be enforced, but it seems obvious to me we could win a lot of games against BCS teams if we could clip a dozen or so of their players, most of them fairly early in the game. Plus this would be happening to the better teams week after week. By the end of a season parity in D1 football should be much better than anything previously suggested in this thread.

[MDZip]

I saw this on CNNSI.com so I thought I would post it here. It's dated Feb 17, so GP1 beat this guy to the punch. While I'm not in favor of it (for selfish reasons as a Zip fan I suppose), I do understand that something like this makes a lot of sense and might not be avoidable down the road. I still say the biggest problem is determining who get into the "club".Link

Please do not feed the GP1.

[zen]

I saw this on CNNSI.com so I thought I would post it here. It's dated Feb 17, so GP1 beat this guy to the punch. While I'm not in favor of it (for selfish reasons as a Zip fan I suppose), I do understand that something like this makes a lot of sense and might not be avoidable down the road. I still say the biggest problem is determining who get into the "club".Link

Please do not feed the GP1.

BTW, (ref: link) I don't think this would ever happen.64 big-time media-soaking programs garnering the nation's sports attention would further separate the disparity between them and the remaining programs. Even the top programs don't want this. They need a large pool of chumps to stand on as their foundation. What you gain from hyping up the big programs you lose plus-more from the larger pool spread out everywhere. The Olympics wouldn't be a world fascination if it was just the 20 riches nations that were invited. The NCAA (or whatever their top tier programs will be called) do not want to alienate everyone else. They are the Proletariat who must be given the illusion of upward mobility.

[MDZip]

Just to be clear, I was in no way calling GP1 a troll, simply pointing out that since he had come up with a vaugely similar plan before SI posted theirs, it might give him a reason to try to put another great in front of his name. No one wants that.

[GP1]

Just to be clear, I was in no way calling GP1 a troll, simply pointing out that since he had come up with a vaugely similar plan before SI posted theirs, it might give him a reason to try to put another great in front of his name. No one wants that.

Thanks for the credit where credit is due. The Great GP1 didn't just come up with something similar, the Great GP1 came up with an idea for superior to what this hack at SI offers. The only thing worth quoting in his article is:"The NCAA began with the noblest intentions, but it has grown into a bloated beast of an organization that routinely does harm even when it tries to do good."The NCAA is a complete fraud. The answer is not for a certain number of schools to leave the NCAA. The answer is for those schools is to have their own division. And why does this hack think 64 is the right number? First of all, it is too many. Secondly, what else does the number 64 remind everyone of? SI should stick with photographing half naked girls. At least what they would be printing would be interesting.