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Leaving before the season ends is bad for the team, the players and the school. The NFL prevents it, so let us end it in college by:

1. Any school that contacts, directly or via any 3rd party, any coach before his season ends would be sanctioned.
2. The sanction would be a loss of 10 scholarships for the upcoming year,
a 2 year bowl ban and all players would be able to transfer.

Adjust the LOI period to allow the new coaches to be in place before signings.

Of course the spineless NCAA seldom does the right thing!

(01-02-2019 10:37 AM)doss2 Wrote:  Leaving before the season ends is bad for the team, the players and the school. The NFL prevents it, so let us end it in college by:

1. Any school that contacts, directly or via any 3rd party, any coach before his season ends would be sanctioned.
2. The sanction would be a loss of 10 scholarships for the upcoming year,
a 2 year bowl ban and all players would be able to transfer.

Adjust the LOI period to allow the new coaches to be in place before signings.

Of course the spineless NCAA seldom does the right thing!

I would take a different approach: expand the College Football Playoffs to 16 teams (like ALL other NCAA divisions) and ELIMINATE all bowl games.

Don't tell me that this is too many games because Alabama and Clemson will both play one less game than the Bengals did this year.

I agree with your concept, Doss. I'm sure the actual rules, sanctions, etc. could be worked out. It is what is best for the student-athletes.

(01-02-2019 11:41 AM)TubaCat Wrote:  I agree with your concept, Doss. I'm sure the actual rules, sanctions, etc. could be worked out. It is what is best for the student-athletes.

It will never happen because the powers at be want to be able to poach coaches whenever they want/need to. You think Bama/Clemson/OSU/Michigan etc are going to agree to something like that?

(01-02-2019 11:49 AM)skylinecat Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:41 AM)TubaCat Wrote:  I agree with your concept, Doss. I'm sure the actual rules, sanctions, etc. could be worked out. It is what is best for the student-athletes.

It will never happen because the powers at be want to be able to poach coaches whenever they want/need to. You think Bama/Clemson/OSU/Michigan etc are going to agree to something like that?

I'm sure the Bamas of the world would love to be able to pay their players as much $ as they want, have massive rosters of 200 paid players, unlimited years of eligibility, and remove the requirement that players actually have to be students. But the NCAA has rules against that, and they (mostly) comply. I doubt that waiting a couple more weeks for the season to end before a new coach starts their job will enrage Bama enough that they quit the NCAA...

(01-02-2019 10:37 AM)doss2 Wrote:  Leaving before the season ends is bad for the team, the players and the school. The NFL prevents it, so let us end it in college by:

1. Any school that contacts, directly or via any 3rd party, any coach before his season ends would be sanctioned.
2. The sanction would be a loss of 10 scholarships for the upcoming year,
a 2 year bowl ban and all players would be able to transfer.

Adjust the LOI period to allow the new coaches to be in place before signings.

Of course the spineless NCAA seldom does the right thing!

I agree with the goal. But your proposed rule is unenforceable.

Unenforceable rules are worse than no rules at all.

I think the best solution is to change the incentives. The poaching seems to be caused by the fear that a coach that misses December is at a big disadvantage in recruiting. Perhaps they could eliminate any recruiting signings between November 15th and March 1st?