The NCAA’s incompetence will end college football...

as we know it. All they had to do was enact a P.R. war with the NFL: point to the league as the reason kids can’t “get paid” due to the three years removed rule, and force them to start a minor league system instead of using college as their free system. That would have saved the system and there would be no name, image and likeness battle, as there is today. Just like college basketball. The big difference is that most top talent for football isn’t ready for the NFL and college- and a free education- is a much better option than $40k per year to play professional minor league football.

But the NCAA did not act. They waited for the system to crumble, and it inevitably will in just a few years. They are a slow, short-sighted, and dull organization that missed the opportunity to preserve an incredible game. We have them to thank. College football will soon be a professional entity, with boosters as the defacto owners and the schools with the biggest and most powerful boosters and largest alumni and fanbases dominating the game.

Pandora’s Box is open and there is no turning back.

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Re: The NCAA’s incompetence will end college football...

Oct 31, 2019, 7:44 AM

Also, the NCAA should have stood up for their own rules and said: "California...any athlete that gets paid for their likeness or endorsements, or who hires an agent, is a professional athlete and therefore ineligible for NCAA participation. That goes for the rest of the state who've said it as well. P.S. we have the exclusive rights to TV coverage for all your sports for the next 20 years."

I'd like to see how that game of chicken plays out.

Remember, the NCAA does not prevent ANYONE from getting paid anything they can get paid for, except that if you get paid in certain ways you cannot play in their NCAA games.

Wanna get paid and not be limited by NCAA but still play football before you meet the NFL age limits?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_and_Canadian_football_leagues

Professional outdoor leagues:

United States National Football League, 1920–

Originally American Professional Football Conference, American Professional Football Association (1920–1921)
Merged with the American Football League (1960–69)

Canada Canadian Football League, 1909–

Formed from Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (1909) and Western Interprovincial Football Union (1936).

Mexico Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional, 2016–

Professional arena/indoor leagues:

United States Arena Football League, (6 active teams and 1 on hiatus) 1987–2008, 2010–
United States Indoor Football League, (10 teams) 2009–

Formed from United Indoor Football and Intense Football League

United States Champions Indoor Football, (7 teams) 2015–

Formed from Champions Professional Indoor Football League and Lone Star Football League

United States National Arena League, (6 teams) 2017–
United States American Arena League, (10 teams) 2018–

Formed from Arena Pro Football and Can-Am Indoor Football League

United States American West Football Conference, (4 teams) 2019–

Current semi-professional leagues

Canada Northern Football Conference, 1954–
United States Empire Football League, 1969–
Canada Alberta Football League, 1984–
United States New England Football League, 1994–
United States Northeastern Football Alliance, 1997–
United States Rocky Mountain Football League, 1997–
United States Central Football League, 1999–
Canada Maritime Football League, 2002–
United States Minor League Football Association, 2003–
United States Big Northeast Football Federation 2007–
United States Florida Football Alliance, 2007–
United States Oklahoma Metro Football League, 2007–
United States Regional American Football League 2007–
United States Five Star Football League 2010–
United States Gridiron Developmental Football League 2010–
United States Atlantic Football Association, 2011–
United States Atlantic Coast Football Alliance, 2009– [1]–
United States The Spring League, 2017–
United States East Coast Football Alliance, 2011–
United States American 7s Football League, 2014[2]

Developmental leagues

The Spring League, 2017–
Your Call Football, May 2018–

Amateur to Professional Developmental Football League

Amateur to Professional Developmental Football League is an amateur developmental American football league primarily in the Southeast based in Dothan, Alabama of 35 teams. Players are not paid to allow them to keep their college eligibility.[3] The league is a nonprofit corporation. Their season starts in March.[4]

Bernard Hunt and his wife has purchased a franchise in another developmental league, but were disillusioned with the lack of carry through by the league. So in 2012, Hunt founded the Amateur to Professional Developmental Football League.[3]

In 2018, the P-Town Wreckaz Semi-Pro Football Team moved to the league from the X-Treme South Football League. Also, two other teams were added to the league.[4]
Gridiron Developmental Football League

Gridiron Developmental Football League is a developmental American football league using the franchise model. The league has almost 32 teams.[3]

The Gridiron Developmental Football League was developed while the founder, Charles Thompson, was recovering from a traumatic work injury. In 2010, he thus founded the league in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] After playing 2017, its first season, in the Middle Tennessee Football League and the Mid-South Football Alliance, the Middle Tennessee Bulldawgs moved to the Gridiron Developmental Football League for the 2018 season.[5]
Rivals Professional Football League

The Rivals Professional Football League' is a developmental semi-pro American football league owned by Quentin Hines and consisting of eight teams. Quentin Hines is the grandson of Willie Horton and briefly played football for the New England Patriots.[6]

The Rivals Professional Football League' was founded by Quentin Hines in 2012.[3] A Toledo team was considered for the initial set of teams, but could not come to term to lease the Glass Bowl with University of Toledo. The league expect attempt to get a team there for season two in 2015.[7] As of February 2014, Hines had announced his league with five teams: the Akron Blaze, Chicago Kings, Detroit Cougars, Indianapolis Racers and Southern Michigan Mustangs. At the time, Hines indicated that he was sole owner and would continue as such before selling franchises.[8]

The league planned to be operating in April 2014 with four teams, two in Detroit and one each in Ohio and Illinois.[6] The league held tryouts in April 2014, held a draft of those that made the cut on April 26 at Mount Clemens High and begun play in May.[9] The Akron Blaze selected Marquelo Suel, a 24-year-old Akron University receiver, as the first pick of the draft.[10] Only two teams played in the first season, the Macomb County Bearcats and Detroit Cougars. The Cougars had Anthony Baskins straight from the Indianapolis Colts and Daunte Akra, a 2011 Detroit Lions player, also played for the league in the first season.[11] The first year championship game was broadcast on WADL-TV 38 with ESPN Radio (105.1 FM) broadcasting other games.[12] The Detroit Cougars were first season champions under Coach Wendell Jefferson.[13] 14 league players end up getting the attention of the NFL or CFL with three trying out with a NFL team, one signed with a NFL team and 10 getting CFL workouts.[14]

In April 2015, the league indicated more Michigan teams, the Pontiac Generals and Oakland County Racers, with two stadium as game sites, Mt. Clemens High School and Wisner Memorial Stadium in Pontiac.[11] The Generals and Racers would share Wisner as their home field for at least the 2015 season with the Racer looking for another location.[15] Jefferson was named the General's head coach.[14]

Later the league added four teams in Miami. Pontiac Generals player Keith Franklin was signed to the CFL Saskatchewan Rough Riders.[3]

Players are paid based on performance with base salaries of $500 to $1,500 for veterans. The league is targeted for those that have exceed their college eligibility or had no opportunity to play at the college level.[3]

The league owns all teams[6] with a 50 slot roster plus practice squad.[12] The league has four teams in Detroit who play a fall season and four teams in Miami who play a spring season.[3]

Planned leagues in North America

United States National Gridiron League (United States), proposed to begin in 2020 (Indoor)
United States XFL, proposed to begin in 2020
United States Freedom Football League, proposed to begin in 2020
United States Pacific Pro Football, proposed to begin in 2020
United States America South Football Alliance, proposed to begin in 2020 (Semi-Pro)

Spring League of American Football

Spring League of American Football is a proposed spring league of American football expected to consist of eight teams to start play by 2019 or 2020. Executives involved in forming the league included former Madison Square Garden media executive Rex Lardner[17] and Chief Financial Officer Robert Pollichino.[18]

Spring League of American Football (SLAF) was announced by September 2016 with an expected 10 teams.[18] By January 2018, the league was looking for an investment of $100 million thus pushing its first season with eight teams back to 2019 or 2020.[17]

The league had originally split the country into 10 zones for the franchise based in the zone which would draw player from the colleges and high schools in the zone to have ready rivalries. Players must have their college eligibility expired to try out. Team owners would be able to place their team any where in the zone. The season would run from April to July for 10 games plus playoffs. Rules would mirror the NFL's except for overtime rule for which they will use college's.