The P5 tick me off more every day. They don't care about any other school, the kids, the game, education... nothing. Only one thing, gaining an advantage over anyone they can. Is it not enough that they have almost exclusive access to the playoffs, take 100x more money for themselves while trying to spend everyone else out of existence, etc... I'm starting to think maybe we would be better off teaming up with the top of 1AA instead of trying to place nice with these jerks.

(06-17-2015 05:11 PM)monarx Wrote:  Is it not enough that they have almost exclusive access to the playoffs...

I would like to point out that to date, C-USA has sent just as many teams to the CFP as has the Big XII.
:)

$EC puts the kibosh on something that would damage their "best conference" image, color me surprised...Maybe it'll get approved next year after Mike Slive, Greg Sankey, and the rest of the $EC boys have time to study how to exploit it.

I heard a proposal that I believe would really clear things up and take a lot of the bull out of recruiting, it was suggested that when a recruit is given an offer they have 48 hours to accept it with the school being required to honor the offer if it is accepted in that time period.

Think about that. The average college puts out about 150 offers, some as high as 250. Most of the offers are "un commitable" which basically means that if Alabama offers you they won't take you even if you immediately accept, unless they know for sure you are a high priority target. This allows them to string along a hundred plus kids throughout their senior season.

By making every offer commitable it would force schools to give them out judiciously. If a kid wants to hold out for "better offers" that becomes solely their decision and risk.

(06-17-2015 05:05 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(06-17-2015 10:30 AM)MU ATO Wrote:  Wussy Boys

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...d-proposal

Quote:Heading into the CCA's annual meetings here at the Biltmore Estate, administrators from the ACC, American, Big Ten, Big 12, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12 and Sun Belt spoke in favor of the proposal, while the SEC was the only FBS league that spoke out against it. However, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany suggested that the debate this week over early signing could morph into a larger discussion on recruiting issues, and that's exactly what happened.

I guess the SEC has some kind of mystic power over everybody else.

Mystic power? No.

Wonder what that does to coaches that are fired at the end of the season. It used to be a mad rush to get a new guy in and get recruiting done by February. Now it would be insane. You'd have to accept the guys the recently fired coach signed or was about to sign in December. If the coach is fired too early he can let prospects know and leave no time to do anything about it. If he gets fired too late you're stuck with his guys. This would severely hamstring a new coach's chances of making an impact the first year.

It will just give ESPN 2 signing day specials. They'll love it. I'm for it, for the simple fact that kids are flip flopping so much it's ridiculous. The other side is the coaching carousel. What will that do? I understand it happens in basketball and it all works out, but it could create a mess with 15-25 signees. If they just keep the late period as well I guess it'll all work out.

this would create more parity in the long run, just like it has done in basketball. That 3 star kid would probably sign early because they would be in jeopardy of filling up fast and being left out and going somewhere they didn't want to go with

(06-17-2015 10:04 PM)banker Wrote:  I heard a proposal that I believe would really clear things up and take a lot of the bull out of recruiting, it was suggested that when a recruit is given an offer they have 48 hours to accept it with the school being required to honor the offer if it is accepted in that time period.

Think about that. The average college puts out about 150 offers, some as high as 250. Most of the offers are "un commitable" which basically means that if Alabama offers you they won't take you even if you immediately accept, unless they know for sure you are a high priority target. This allows them to string along a hundred plus kids throughout their senior season.

By making every offer commitable it would force schools to give them out judiciously. If a kid wants to hold out for "better offers" that becomes solely their decision and risk.

University of Texas under Brown did this for years. Maybe not to every recruit but to many.