The causal relationship is clear and relentless. We don’t need soccer coaches to explain nothing happening in vacuum.
If the illegal falsification is extended and the university football is not checked, you invite a spring game and all the coaches of all schools to look at the roster in the game settings and decide which player throws money. mosquito?
Matt Rule, a coach of Nebraska, says that he may cancel the wide and popular spring games of his programs to avoid it. And since he opened the door to this particular problem, he has the opportunity to discuss bigger problems facing college football.
The foolishness of spring practice.
Think about this concept. Ohio has completed a five -month training camp, plays 16 games and wins the national championship, and spring practice will begin in less than two months.
This is 15 practices, including spring games. This is over eight weeks since the strict 20 weeks of sports that are the most physically damaged on the earth.
Which world is this wise?
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Why is the coach actually hit the team immediately after the full season, as emphasizing the dangers of sports, increasing the number of head trauma, and emphasis on serious ligament injury?
The financial dynamics of the university football have changed dramatically, the transactions of NIL have been allowed, free players have been introduced, and every month, sports approached the NFL mini version.
Why do you escape from the causal chain now? Why players can earn millions before taking a college football snap, the university expands the post -season, adds a game, and prepares to ignite the straight salary of the play system on July 1st. After doing it, university football is perfect for the ideal of old -fashioned player development. Would you like to fit anymore?
The development of players is important in the off -season, but is not executed efficiently (or smartly). It is necessary for a university to appear on the same page for what. Nevertheless, you can get one cook with the ideas of the player who finishes two seasons in nine months during the pandemic (we will never forget you, Kevin Warren).
Understanding this is not so difficult. Practice and blow, and make it wise about the timing and its length.
NFL off -season players are strict and continuous, and there are specific days and time for the team to interact with the player. It is very clear and not frequent when and where the hit is allowed. Especially in the off -season.
NFL has 10 days of OTA (organized training activity), zero hits are allowed, and participation is not essential. In addition, there is a “mini camp” for 2-3 days. This is a practice setup for rookies and young players who do not participate in the field.
In other words, these two developing points are version of the spring practice of college football.
In particular, since the middle -term registrant is standard instead of a drop, it is worthwhile to practice spring practice at the university level. High school players have graduated early to start with college football.
There is a big difference between the speed and physicality at the university level, and 15 Practis is a bridge to the actual development that starts with an autumn camp. There is an OTA for new students and new students in the Red shirt in early spring.
After that, you will return to the summer (early May) with a mini camp, and the entire list will be available in limited days. After that, the pre -season starts with a training camp in late July. In this camp, a specific number of days is taken for 11 to 11 team hits.
Like NFL, coaches can excuse OTAS or mini camp players, depending on the need to get injured and young players in more time. However, moving to the NFL off -season model opens another door of the causal relationship that must be dealt with.
Again, nothing happens in vacuum.
Spring games are the creators of money for universities, and are the opportunities to open the gate and satisfy the crazy fans of soccer in hopes of what you can do. That hope was once translated into a season ticket and apparel, but is now used to replenish the group.
The worst part of the current process, the absolute worst part, is that NFL is the biggest beneficiary. The university team trains NFL players, and NFL does not pay anything.
NFL, the most successful professional sports league in the world, does not pay the player development costs. NFL has a $ 110 billion (1 billion) media right contract, and Penny is undoubtedly the most important part of its success.
Do you want to prevent the team from hunting the players after watching the spring game? Simple. By moving to the NFL off -season schedule and negotiating the talents with NFL, we will compensate for revenue losses.
The NCAA School soccer building has no talented fees, scouts, or personnel. It’s not a practice, not a game, but a spring ball. There is no access to games or practice tapes or coaches.
there is nothing.
When the NFL draft begins, the same NFL staff will be as blind as Joe Sixpack when heading for an important player procurement process.
For a long time, university football has played NFL’s faithful soldiers. No more. It may be a new NFL -based world, but that doesn’t mean that someone has not paid it.
Regardless of the spring practice and the end of the game, the new off -season calendar will be implemented.
Nothing happens in vacuum.
MATT HAYES is a senior college college colleic football writer of USA TODAY SPORTS NETWORK. Follow him in X with @matThayescfb.