re: College football is broken. Here's how it can be fixed.

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For Alabama, Ohio State, and Clemson, year in and year out they waltz in playing weak in-conference schedules and out-of -conference rent a wins.

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So the SEC Big Ten and ACC have weak conferences, who do you want them to play?

Cut football scholarships by 50%.

Can not do that: then yours taking the choice away from the athlete.?We live in America not Iran:(

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I tend to agree with this. IF the NFL cared about it’s free farm system they would work with College Football to promote better practices and habits. IF there were simple rules that said stay and play as well as you can’t quit this would be simple. No consequences no change in behavior.

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Why would the NFL change anything? The current system works very well for them.

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How did kids get to know all the programs before video games?

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was joking.. but really it's time to bring the game back

Crazy thought...probably a real dumb thought...but here goes nothing.

Allow schools to pay players, but have a hard cap. If they can sign 25 players per class, allow each school $10 million (or some amount that is the same for every single D1 FBS school) that they can use to pay those players in whatever way them deem fit. The catch...take away scholarships. Now that they're getting paid, players must pay their own way with tuition, room and board, etc like any regular student. Most schools wouldn't lose a ton of money because basically scholarship expenses become the salary cap. Salary of each player would be public and if boosters are ever caught adding a single dollar or a single "benefit" to a player or their family, drop the hammer on the program instantly. If that player wants more money, the program can give them more...at the expense of paying other guys less.

If the amount was $10 million and it was divided evenly, that would be $400,000 per player. $100,000 per year with a signed contract. That's more than enough to attend most D1 schools. If a player leaves after 3 years or "opts out", they must pay back that $100,000 or whatever the portion of the contract for that year was (should not be a problem at all if they are actually good enough to leave early and get drafted the top rounds. For players who redshirt along the way, give them the option to sign an additional 1 year/$100,000 contract.

This might make the NCAA more even across the board. Yes all these 5*s could go to Alabama or Clemson or Ohio State, but what if Georgia Tech offers one of the 5*s a million instead of $400,000? Yes that puts the rest of the players at a smaller amount, but Georgia Tech isn't going to pull a ton of big recruits anyways. Small schools could lure kids away with bigger offers. If better players want more money that's fine, they're just going to have to avoid going the same school as 10 other top players all wanting big money because there wouldn't be enough to go around.

This would stop so many kids from opting out or leaving early when they probably shouldn't, because they might actually have something to lose, especially if they were to leave early on bad advice and go undrafted.

Like I said at the beginning...this may be a completely awful idea. Schools would obviously try to abuse the system and come up with more booster money to pay kids with...NCAA would have to make serious examples out of the big names as soon as they're caught. It would probably end up being a broken system eventually, but hell...so is the current system.

I have yet to hear one argument why the following is a bad idea to increase parity in CFB:

No more signing 25 per year. You can sign 18.

No more max of 85 scholarship players per year. You can have 65.

Within 3-4 seasons, the parity in CFB would be incredible.

(1) Require a college degree for the NFL. 3yr salary/bonus caps for JUCO degrees.
(2) Reduce scholarship limits, require academic components for some, but broaden their terms (e.g.: 6yrs to play 4?).
(3) Eliminate transfer portal. Alternative: 1yr NFL salary/bonus cap for any transfer who didn't sit out.
(4) Limit conferences to 12 teams.

I tend to think allowing players to have their own image rights and endorsements could go a long way towards national parity.

5 star guys can spread out more around the country searching for the best endorsement deals in those markets. Do you go to Bama as the 6th 5* and get somewhat lost in the mix (to go with the rest of the stocked roster) or do you go to UW because Seattle is a larger market and wants success? I really think the math there would change a LOT of things.