NFL D-League?

[celticdb15]

What do you guys think of the possibility of a development league in the NFL? This guy Monte Burke seems to think it'd work out and I tend to agree with him. Who knows if it'd be racially better than the NFL but I'm sure a lot more of our guys would have a chance to stick around with the possibility to move up!

Forbes.com: Spate of week 7 injuries demonstrates the N.F.L. is a league of attrition. Time For A Developmental League?


The 2013 NFL season began with 170 players on its Injured Reserve list, a number far greater than any in recent years.
Week 7 in the NFL only added to the pain, with several marquee players injured. Some of them will be out for the season.
Former TD Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia Is Finding Big Success On The Football Field Monte BurkeForbes Staff
–The St. Louis Rams quarterback, Sam Bradford, tore is ACL and is out for the season.
–Houston Texans linebacker, Brian Cushing, broke his leg and tore his LCL. He is also done for the season, adding to the Texans’ woes.

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–Chicago Bears quarterback, Jay Cutler, hurt his groin. The extent of the injury is unknown. UPDATED: He has a muscle tear and will be out four weeks.
–Jermichael Finley, Green Bay Packers tight end, suffered a frightening neck injury and, initially, was unable to move. His five-year-old son already told him earlier this season that he didn’t want him playing football anymore.
–Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, Nick Foles, suffered a concussion.
–Reggie Wayne, the Indianapolis Colts receiver, appears to be out for the season with a torn ACL.
–Doug Martin, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back, tore his labrum and is out for the year.
The NFL is a league of attrition. It is the ultimate “next man up†league. Most of the time that “next man†comes from a team’s eight-person practice squad. But in-season injuries in the NFL can become so numerous that they push the capabilities of the practice squads to replenish the rosters. In 2010, 352 NFL players went on the season-ending Injured Reserve list, missing an average of nine and a half games.
Perhaps it’s time for the $9.2 billion NFL to fund its own developmental league.
The NFL, of course, already has the greatest and cheapest (read: free) farm system in the professional sports world: The college game. But those players are obviously not able to join NFL teams in mid-season. A developmental league could help fill that void—and could have other benefits as well.
In 2011 I was embedded with the Omaha Nighthawks, while researching my book (“4th And Goalâ€) on Joe Moglia, the former TD Ameritrade CEO who is now the coach at Coastal Carolina University (where he is now 7-0, by the way). The Nighthawks played in the now-defunct United Football League, which consisted of players—and coaches, for that matter—who had dreams of playing in the NFL, or who had once played there, and were trying to claw their way back in.
The problem with the UFL is that it was set up to compete with the NFL, and not complement it. For that reason, that league—like the World Football League, the United States Football League and the XFL before it—failed miserably. There is no competing with the NFL (though rich men with oversized dreams will never stop trying to do so, it seems). But there is a void out there, one that could be filled with a developmental league.
The NFL once had a quasi-developmental league, called NFL Europe, which lasted for 15 seasons before ceasing operations in 2007. It lost money, which is the reason the NFL shut it down. But it provided an undeniable service.
I talked about the utility of a developmental league in my book:

Good rookie football players slip through the NFL draft and free agency cracks every year. NFL veterans often actually do have something left in the tank. What these players need is a place to attempt to prove themselves…
The list of marquee players who have played in developmental leagues—especially NFL Europe—and then gone on to become stars in the NFL is fairly impressive. Kurt Warner, a two-time NFL Most Valuable Player, played in both NFL Europe and the Arena Football League. James Harrison, the Steelers [now Bengals] linebacker and the 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is an NFL Europe veteran. Fred Jackson, the running back for the Bills, toiled in an indoor league and NFL Europe for years. Quarterbacks Jake Delhomme and Brad Johnson, offensive lineman Brian Waters, defensive lineman LaRoi Glover and kickers Adam Viniateri and David Akers were just a few of the other 250-plus players who made NFL teams after playing in NFL Europe. It’s very possible that these players would eventually have found homes in the NFL. But it’s inarguable that the time they spent in NFL Europe gave them the time and place to further develop their skills.
Alternative leagues—and again NFL Europe in particular—have also served another crucial function: They act as training grounds for coaches and referees, and laboratories in which the NFL can test potential new rules. In 2011 the NFL had three head coaches who had been in NFL Europe: Chan Gailey, Steve Spagnuolo, and Hue Jackson (though the latter two were fired after the 2011 season). S. S. Scott Green and Alberto Riveron, NFL refs, started in Europe. The two-point conversion, the current playoff overtime rules, and one-way radio communication between players and coaches were all first tried in Europe (so was awarding four points for a field goal of 50 yards or longer, but that one didn’t make the jump across the pond, much to Sebastian Janikowski’s chagrin).
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One reason the NFL lost money on NFL Europe was the location. Football is an expensive game. Locating teams and staging games in Europe make that doubly so. Starting a developmental league in a handful of smaller, football-starved cities in the U.S. (like Omaha), might be a way to actually make some money on this. And would help the NFL in its battle against attrition.

 

[davidholly]

The NFL is too cheap to have a developmental league. That's why they want to keep at least some level of mandatory college play. If the college experience mandate is removed the next logical step is a developmental league. At that point college athletics would also be dead. A developmental league would be much more beneficial to football players than a useless college major that football programs hand out to football players.

 

[goyim]

The NFL is too cheap to have a developmental league. That's why they want to keep at least some level of mandatory college play. If the college experience mandate is removed the next logical step is a developmental league. At that point college athletics would also be dead. A developmental league would be much more beneficial to football players than a useless college major that football programs hand out to football players.

"""Student""" athletes rarely major in anything that would earn them gainful employment (though, with STEM jobs being flooded with bindis and chongers fresh off the boat, getting a STEM degree is hardly a guarantee), so playing for at least some money in an NFL development league would be a much more attractive prospect.

The NCAA would never allow it for this very reason.

 

[Pie]

Probably won't happen, but I would be in favor of it.

Get the kids who have no business being in college in the first place into open tryouts for the D-League instead of eating up spots on college rosters, and potentially expand the draft to account for more "roster" spots in NFL and the D-league. Every NFL team could operate a D-league team, and do away with practice squads and use their lower league teams instead. Have their games play on Wednesdays.

Alternative football leagues keep failing because they lack the NFL brand support. But if there were 32 minor league teams each connected with an NFL franchise and located in an under served market somewhat near the parent team(Say Oklahoma City for the Cowboys, Austin for the Texans, something like that).

Would probably be better for our guys in both the NFL and college.

 

[white is right]

Probably won't happen, but I would be in favor of it.

Get the kids who have no business being in college in the first place into open tryouts for the D-League instead of eating up spots on college rosters, and potentially expand the draft to account for more "roster" spots in NFL and the D-league. Every NFL team could operate a D-league team, and do away with practice squads and use their lower league teams instead. Have their games play on Wednesdays.

Alternative football leagues keep failing because they lack the NFL brand support. But if there were 32 minor league teams each connected with an NFL franchise and located in an under served market somewhat near the parent team(Say Oklahoma City for the Cowboys, Austin for the Texans, something like that).

Would probably be better for our guys in both the NFL and college.

I actually think a modified system similar to what hockey or baseball have with the old track and field model would work. An athlete could sign a pro contract at 18 but be sent to college and his signing bonus would held in a trust and so much a month would go to his living expenses(maybe 2k a month). Whenever a pro team would think a player is ready to play with the big club they could recall the player(if the player wanted to) and he could play for the pro team. Also if the pro team wanted to send the player back down to college then his money could be held in trust again. Finally the late bloomers could be drafted again when they graduated in 4 years. They already do this system with pros from other sports that play football anyway.

 

[jaxvid]

I actually think a modified system similar to what hockey or baseball have with the old track and field model would work. An athlete could sign a pro contract at 18 but be sent to college and his signing bonus would held in a trust and so much a month would go to his living expenses(maybe 2k a month). Whenever a pro team would think a player is ready to play with the big club they could recall the player(if the player wanted to) and he could play for the pro team. Also if the pro team wanted to send the player back down to college then his money could be held in trust again. Finally the late bloomers could be drafted again when they graduated in 4 years. They already do this system with pros from other sports that play football anyway.

One of the differences between baseball and hockey is that those college players also feed a somewhat self surviving minor league system. So there is plenty of open spots and the cost is somewhat deferred by the teams trying to make money. Football is too cheap, and they are raking in cash, so no incentive to end their very lucrative "minor" league college system.

Another problem is that hockey and baseball are mostly White sports. Funneling ghetto blacks in large numbers to small towns without the strict guidance provided by college football factory systems is a recipe for disaster and lawsuits. I don't think the teams could afford the blowback.

However with the collapse of the college football system eminent due to the growing clamor to pay players, the siphoning of football profits to fund womyns sports, scandals and soon injury lawsuits, there will need to be some sort of system to provide fodder for amerikas secular religion. So I think it will happen. But only after the college system implodes.

I have long advocated for the college football and basketball teams to be spun off in a privatization that would allow for continued affiliation with the school but not a part of the school. This is something that has been done by engineering schools, often they spin off profitable companies that sprung from school research. Spinning off the sports teams would allow for continued support by brain dead alumni who have some kind of sick need to keep supporting ol' U, long after they leave. Yet still the association would remain and the problems of the teams would be off of the backs of the taxpayers. Of course that is why it will not happen.

 

[white is right]

One of the differences between baseball and hockey is that those college players also feed a somewhat self surviving minor league system. So there is plenty of open spots and the cost is somewhat deferred by the teams trying to make money. Football is too cheap, and they are raking in cash, so no incentive to end their very lucrative "minor" league college system.

Another problem is that hockey and baseball are mostly White sports. Funneling ghetto blacks in large numbers to small towns without the strict guidance provided by college football factory systems is a recipe for disaster and lawsuits. I don't think the teams could afford the blowback.

However with the collapse of the college football system eminent due to the growing clamor to pay players, the siphoning of football profits to fund womyns sports, scandals and soon injury lawsuits, there will need to be some sort of system to provide fodder for amerikas secular religion. So I think it will happen. But only after the college system implodes.

I have long advocated for the college football and basketball teams to be spun off in a privatization that would allow for continued affiliation with the school but not a part of the school. This is something that has been done by engineering schools, often they spin off profitable companies that sprung from school research. Spinning off the sports teams would allow for continued support by brain dead alumni who have some kind of sick need to keep supporting ol' U, long after they leave. Yet still the association would remain and the problems of the teams would be off of the backs of the taxpayers. Of course that is why it will not happen.

I actually want to keep the college system alive with the previous proposals. Essentially the corrupt football factories are doing this with bogus courses, phony transcripts and under the table financial payments, at least above board the corruption would be far less. Yes you will always fools that couldn't survive on a factory workers pay, but nobody in the general public would feel sorry for somebody that was single that "couldn't survive" on roughly 25K. I would even be willing to give more money for top picks that supported their own family or parents, grandparents, siblings etc maybe double that for hardship cases. Ps fools like Latrell Sprewell , Kenny Anderson or Pacific Island breeding machine Luther Ellis would probably need a million a year in college and would still be whining about being under the thumb of the man....:scared::bowl: