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re: If the XFL allowed 18 year olds to play
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:06 pm to Placebeaux
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:06 pm to Placebeaux
I really can’t imagine any high profile recruit choosing that over living like a king on a college campus for a few years
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Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:11 pm to Pelican fan99
If the money was right they would go. S*** 90% of LSU's roster his kids just waiting to go pro. I'll watch one basically take the whole year off waiting for the draft after balling out in one game
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:13 pm to Placebeaux
It wouldn't just be the money they get in salary but they'd also be able to sign endorsement deals.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:14 pm to PrimeTime Money
A good point. Didn't think of that
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:15 pm to PrimeTime Money
Vince needs to reach out to a big company like Under Armour Nike Adidas and see if they would be interested. I'm sure one of those companies got the short end of the stick when it comes to the NFL
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:19 pm to Placebeaux
No one will watch either way. Even the baws who dumped the nfl over the kneeling issue. Nobody will know who any of the players are. the storylines is why people watch.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:20 pm to Boomshockalocka
Storyline is why people watch football? Maybe if you're a woman
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:20 pm to PrimeTime Money
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This is actually a good thread. If they could get potential star college athletes to join the league, they could really be a legitimate football league that even ESPN would have to cover.
Would certainly turn the professional football world upside-down, basically unprecedented in history
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:21 pm to Placebeaux
So they skip college to go to the XFL but their dream is till to get to the NFL, obviously. Won't work. You are going to take 18 year old kids and put them in a system, and probably extreme wacky rules, and they will hope to make it to he NFL? It's hard enough breaking these kids of shitty coaching from the spread system. Imagine breaking them of WWE football.
I'm sure in the next couple years trump will be all over the NFL tweeting nonsense to break their brand so his buddy Vince will have a successful start to his (their?) league.
I'm sure in the next couple years trump will be all over the NFL tweeting nonsense to break their brand so his buddy Vince will have a successful start to his (their?) league.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:21 pm to Placebeaux
The NFL would be smart to partner with XFL
they could lend coaches, asst coaches to head coach, position coaches to teach.
CFb coaches are about winning to save their jobs, not developing their OT to be NFL lineman, only to learn their simplest systems to work for them to win.
OL, WR, and Qb play has suffered because of CFb systems and kids not being developed into NFL talent.
There were weeks, where the OL play in NFl was so bad, that one week, 6 teams had historic bad grades, were talking about worst ever.
CFB coaches are teaching to win, and have systems that helps kids develop, others have systems that enable them to be a stud in their system, useless for NFL teams.
they could lend coaches, asst coaches to head coach, position coaches to teach.
CFb coaches are about winning to save their jobs, not developing their OT to be NFL lineman, only to learn their simplest systems to work for them to win.
OL, WR, and Qb play has suffered because of CFb systems and kids not being developed into NFL talent.
There were weeks, where the OL play in NFl was so bad, that one week, 6 teams had historic bad grades, were talking about worst ever.
CFB coaches are teaching to win, and have systems that helps kids develop, others have systems that enable them to be a stud in their system, useless for NFL teams.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:25 pm to YNWA
I'd say their goal is to make a living playing football. If the XFL partners with other big money endorsers they could pay the money to pull these kids from college easily. If they tap into the money college football makes they are in the game Big Time
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:27 pm to Placebeaux
I don’t know many people who watch games where they don’t know the players. And I’m a pretty big football fan. How many people are watching the MAC Wednesday night game or whatever who aren’t betting on it. Not many. How many people watched xfl last time? Not many.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:29 pm to Placebeaux
Would probably have to offer them 3 year contracts to protect them in the event that the league folds.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:29 pm to Boomshockalocka
NFL lending coaches also cuts down on XFL costs.
NFL could also allow officials to learn on the job, lending them to XFL.
Small costs for NFL, compared to developing their own farm system.
Helping cut XFL over head costs means more $ to bring in the top kids out of HS.
NFL could also allow officials to learn on the job, lending them to XFL.
Small costs for NFL, compared to developing their own farm system.
Helping cut XFL over head costs means more $ to bring in the top kids out of HS.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:35 pm to Placebeaux
quote:Storyline was the reason people watched the XFL the first time around.
Storyline is why people watch football? Maybe if you're a woman
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:35 pm to Boomshockalocka
I think it markets itself. Rivals and other recruiting companies puts these high school kids in the spotlight. A lot of them are know before they set foot on campus.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:35 pm to Placebeaux
quote:I would say Herschel Walker and Steve Young were bigger names.
USFL's prize recruit was Marcus Dupre and they pulled him from Oklahoma.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:36 pm to TomRollTideRitter
If high school grads are allowed to play they would have potentially 6-7 months to put on muscle before the season would start. They wouldn’t be nfl ready but after a year they’d be much closer than going to college.
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:36 pm to Oddibe
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USFL's prize recruit was Marcus Dupre and they pulled him from Oklahoma.
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I would say Herschel Walker and Steve Young were bigger names.
Jim Kelly
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:37 pm to VermilionTiger
quote:Didn't Vince M have a difficult time paying players the first time around?
Would probably have to offer them 3 year contracts to protect them in the event that the league folds.
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