Did not expect them to take this approach. Stating they are competing with G5. This could be bad. If this was posted earlier I apologize
[url]https://xflnewshub.com/alt-football/usfl-looking-at-college-transfer-players-having-a-younger-overall-league/
Also posted on CUSA board
Phone acted up when posting. Posted 4 times
You posted this a whole lot of times and provided a link that doesn't work
Did it on my phone. Got unstable when I expanded screen to type. Acted like it was not posting or creating link. Will edit from computer later. Glad someone delete
Going after rising redshirt juniors and seniors. Player beware, not sure I’d throw away my eligibility for a league that may close after 4 games. Until the USFL proves their viability, can’t see any players that still want to play going that route when they have eligibility left to play college.
https://xflnewshub.com/alt-football/usfl...ll-league/
I guess the comment is based on the assumption that G5 stars will look to move up to the P5 as the P5 stars go to the NFL. The USFL will look to swipe them up before they become the new P5 stars and go to the NFL.
Football version of LaVar Ball's "JBA"
Good luck, lmao.
So if you forgo your senior year and go play in the USFL, can you be drafted by the NFL at a future time, or are you a free agent able to sign anywhere you want??? I could see guys that don’t want to play for Jacksonville, sign with the USFL for a season and then signing the next year with New England.
Again, as a player I want to see the league go through a whole season before it even crossed my mind to give up eligibility. Maybe as a DIII, DII or NAIA guy looking to gain attention, but not DI.
No league has lasted more than 4 year, the USFL from 82-86. The WLAF later NFL Europe lasted from 1991-2008 but only because it was backed for the most part by the NFL.
Something I think that could work is the NFL doing something like the NBA does with the G League. Each team have a minor league team but only a certain number of guaranteed contracts. The rest can be like any practice squad member, they can be signed by anyone at any given time.
I doubt we ever see something like that but it would be interesting.
I think the hardest part about a football minor league is lack of upward movement. The average NFL career is what, 2.5 years??? So you add another year on to college, that’s a lot of mileage in those athletes. I think the RFL had it right when putting teams together. Players played on teams close to their home, so fans were familiar with the players more so than an FCS player from a school you’d never heard of from across the country. I wish they could figure out how to make it work, but they seem to get in their own way most of the time.
(12-21-2021 10:23 PM)HerdZoned Wrote: [ -> ]Something I think that could work is the NFL doing something like the NBA does with the G League. Each team have a minor league team but only a certain number of guaranteed contracts. The rest can be like any practice squad member, they can be signed by anyone at any given time.
The NFL is such a force that this seems like it would almost certainly make money if someone puts together the right proposal. Just call it NFL2 and put the shield's marketing power behind it, and it doesn't seem like it would flame out like all these other leagues. Biggest hindrance, I suppose, is that there's already a completely free minor league system in place...
I still think the whole central ownership and all the teams playing in one city deal is a huge gamble. There is nothing to make those cities that these teams are representing attach themselves to the team. If you want to follow a case study for running a minor league, do all or most of what MLS does. Copy and Paste.
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(12-22-2021 09:14 AM)panama Wrote: [ -> ]I still think the whole central ownership and all the teams playing in one city deal is a huge gamble. There is nothing to make those cities that these teams are representing attach themselves to the team. If you want to follow a case study for running a minor league, do all or most of what MLS does. Copy and Paste.
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That's basically a placeholder for the sake of getting the league ready in time for the 2022 season, they plan on rehoming teams into their namesake markets by 2023-2024.
The rough narrative at this point in the ongoing spring football saga is this:
Fox Sports was supposedly very pleased with XFL 2020 ratings (AAF ratings apparently were also a pleasant surprise to networks too - to the point where some game were actually flexed up to cable channels from streaming services) and apparently was very satisfied with The Spring League's 2020 and 2021 ratings on Fox and FS1 despite allocating basically no marketing or resources to it.
Since XFL 3.0 delayed its restart to 2023 following its ending of discussions with the CFL (and also has ownership and executives on it now with ties to ESPN), Fox Sports may have pivoted and decided to basically acquire and scale up the TSL to be first to market, filing to claim USFL name/trademarks to capitalize on nostalgia, as well as inserting some Fox executives into leadership roles at the league
Since its hard to start a football league in less than a year, its possible the USFL opted for a "bubble" for year 1 to consolidate logistics to one location and not have to worry about establishing local market presence immediately. It seems like they are using this season as a showcase of sorts for future seasons.
Birmingham appears to be the site due to it being the highest-rating college football TV market in general, and having built a new downtown stadium for UAB football.
FWIW - Fox is also committing approx. $150 million for 3 years of ops and has signed on NBC to a multi-year broadcast agreement with them paying Fox for it as well, so the powers that be seem pretty serious about making this work.
I wonder since players can sign NIL deals on top of getting their free education if they would risk everything in these experimental leagues that have flopped every time so far.
So they go to the USFL, still have a low chance of making it to the NFL, and won't get a college degree for free? How many students athletes will concerned parents will advise their kids to go that route?
(12-22-2021 07:56 AM)Pounce FTW Wrote: [ -> ] (12-21-2021 10:23 PM)HerdZoned Wrote: [ -> ]Something I think that could work is the NFL doing something like the NBA does with the G League. Each team have a minor league team but only a certain number of guaranteed contracts. The rest can be like any practice squad member, they can be signed by anyone at any given time.
The NFL is such a force that this seems like it would almost certainly make money if someone puts together the right proposal. Just call it NFL2 and put the shield's marketing power behind it, and it doesn't seem like it would flame out like all these other leagues. Biggest hindrance, I suppose, is that there's already a completely free minor league system in place...
They may not be satisfied with the college game is developing the next generation of players.
(12-22-2021 12:34 PM)Troy_Fan_15 Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder since players can sign NIL deals on top of getting their free education if they would risk everything in these experimental leagues that have flopped every time so far.
This. No way a fly-by-night football league can pay these guys what boosters can, plus tuition and stipend, and a shot at the NFL. The USFL will still be there if they don't make the NFL cut. Not like they WON'T take players that have graduated and are talented but not good enough for the show.