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XFL Round 2?

cyhiphopp said:
Here my thing about underclassmen and high school players looking to skip college. Consider a few scenarios:
5 star kid spurns college and goes straight to the XFL. Gets paid some money while he works hard to make it to the NFL one day for a big pay day. Good for him right? But what happens the next season when ratings are down and the XFL folds? This kid took money and has an agent, and now he's ineligible for the NCAA and can't play in the NFL for a year or two. What does he do now?

Or, the same 5 star kid, HS or college drop out, takes the money for the XFL, hoping to make it to the NFL in a few years. Gets the money, parties, gets a DUI, and is kicked out of the league according to the rules Vince just sited. He better hope that money holds out until he hopefully gets a combine invite.

Here's another one. HS kid is all world in HS. Goes to the XFL, playing against 26 year old men. Because he's an undeveloped 18 year old, he struggles and gets cut from the already small 40 man roster. He might have been an NFL draft pick if he developed for a few years in college. We'll never know. Same issue if this underdeveloped kid gets hurt his first game in the XFL. Could he have made it if he played against college talent for a few years?


I would hope most HS talents would hold out a year or two to make sure the XFL is around for at least a while, but you know some kids wont.
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Nailed it. Nobody should be skipping college for this until it is an established league. To start, it will need to be NFL and NCAA castoffs, not a development league for those who don't want to go to college.
 
aeroclone said:
Nailed it. Nobody should be skipping college for this until it is an established league. To start, it will need to be NFL and NCAA castoffs, not a development league for those who don't want to go to college.
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Yeah, and that talent pool will likely determine how well the league does.

I've heard some people theorizing that this is just a publicity grab by McMahon. His rights deal for the WWE is coming up next year, right before this league is supposed to get started.

I just can't see how this seems like a smart business move when there is so much investment involved in getting it off the ground. Did anyone make money off it the last time? Even McMahon?

I understand the desire to want to break into just a percentage of that NFL market and dollars, but I don't see it happening. They actually had a good amount of hype the first time around, then the games ended up being poorly played **** shows. A few players ended up being good enough to play in the NFL after that, but not many. The best thing to come out of it was the Skycam that we have for the NFL now.
 
cyhiphopp said:
Here my thing about underclassmen and high school players looking to skip college. Consider a few scenarios:
5 star kid spurns college and goes straight to the XFL. Gets paid some money while he works hard to make it to the NFL one day for a big pay day. Good for him right? But what happens the next season when ratings are down and the XFL folds? This kid took money and has an agent, and now he's ineligible for the NCAA and can't play in the NFL for a year or two. What does he do now?

Or, the same 5 star kid, HS or college drop out, takes the money for the XFL, hoping to make it to the NFL in a few years. Gets the money, parties, gets a DUI, and is kicked out of the league according to the rules Vince just sited. He better hope that money holds out until he hopefully gets a combine invite.

Here's another one. HS kid is all world in HS. Goes to the XFL, playing against 26 year old men. Because he's an undeveloped 18 year old, he struggles and gets cut from the already small 40 man roster. He might have been an NFL draft pick if he developed for a few years in college. We'll never know. Same issue if this underdeveloped kid gets hurt his first game in the XFL. Could he have made it if he played against college talent for a few years?


I would hope most HS talents would hold out a year or two to make sure the XFL is around for at least a while, but you know some kids wont.
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These are all concerns for the players who have this option. But it is their decision if the foregoe college for the XFL. If a high school player foregoes college and goes to the XFL, then gets a permanent injury that prevents him from playing again, it was his decision to go that route. These are the questions that potential high school recruits need to be asking themselves when they make this decision. And I am sure that they will understand that if they go to the XFL, they won't b eligible for college.

My guess is that the NFL won't take anyone from the XFL as they will have a handshake understanding with the NCAA. The XFL will end up being castoffs from the NFL and XFL.
 
If they are really targeting the June-July time frame for games, there could be some miserably hot games for player in pads.
 
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SCNCY said:
These are all concerns for the players who have this option. But it is their decision if the foregoe college for the XFL. If a high school player foregoes college and goes to the XFL, then gets a permanent injury that prevents him from playing again, it was his decision to go that route. These are the questions that potential high school recruits need to be asking themselves when they make this decision. And I am sure that they will understand that if they go to the XFL, they won't b eligible for college.

My guess is that the NFL won't take anyone from the XFL as they will have a handshake understanding with the NCAA. The XFL will end up being castoffs from the NFL and XFL.
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So you're going to rely on 18 year olds making great choices? I think most high school kids will make good decisions regarding the XFL, but you'll always have guys like Maurice Clarett who have wanted to fight the system. If we ever see high school kids going straight to the XFL, we are going to see someone get cut and try to get eligible with the NCAA again.

If there is a player good enough in the XFL and they want a shot in the NFL, I sincerely doubt the NFL will turn him down. The NFL isn't forcing kids to stay in college for three years to help the NCAA, they use it as a way to develop players before they get to the NFL. It's the NFLs rule, not the NCAA. If a player develops in the XFL and is good enough to play in the NFL, I think they will take him. And the player will want to go because the pay will always be better in the NFL.
 
I think it would increase intrigue if teams were only allowed a certain numbers of punts/game? The strategy in deciding whether to use your punt or save it would have way more consequences than managing time outs.

Or what about an even stranger idea that just popped in my head (could be a terrible idea), where both teams only have a combined number of punts allotted in a game. At a point in the game a team would have the ability to take away their opponent's chance to punt but they'd have give up their own chance to punt in the future.
 
clones6421 said:
XFL scheduled to announce the 8 host cities this Wednesday.
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They got scooped by the AAF, didn't they? They already had a draft, and will be starting right after the Super Bowl. There was already plenty of question about the viability of another league besides the NFL. But two? The XFL is going to be late to the party. Doesn't bode well in my mind.
 
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