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Reduce the roster volatility.

Close the transfer portal, but still allow transfers, but with no waivers.  Grad transfers can still go without sitting a year, and no rule about only if your school doesn't offer the program.

But on the flip side, formalize the offer process.  Offers are written and comfortable, and you can never have more official offers out than the max number of allowable scholarships.  Only limitation would be pending academic acceptance.  The scholarship offers are also valid for the entirety of your eligibility, even if it's 5 or 6 years.

I think I might have an addendum to this. I want bigger schools to care less about football.

I don’t mean the fans, but I want the fans care to not reflect university approach. I want the schools to treat it as a modest boost in revenue, but not an all consuming competition.

This means when a kid picks big state U over directional State, it’s not because of great buildings and new weight room. It means schools balk at making coaches highly paid. Maybe it even means a lack of volatility when it comes to management (maybe, though if they stop giving crazy buyouts, maybe not).

Granted, the dirty secret is the majority of fans like volatility on a lot of fronts, but not when it comes to some kinds of player movement.

Get rid of helmets and eliminate the targeting rule.

1. Move the extra point try to the 10-yard line, and require it be a drop kick. Award two-points for a successful drop kick. Allow 3-points if a team can run or pass it into the end zone.

2. Eliminate Maryland and Rutgers from the Big Ten. They haven't added much. I would only do this if #3 were adopted, as well.

3. Roll back to 11-game schedules. Twelve games are too hard on the body.

4. Enforce the "false start" rule. Once the offense is set, I don't want to see linemen stand up and look at the sideline. It's not allowed by the rules. Recently I saw this draw a defensive offside when, after the linemen were set, they all stood up and looked at the sideline. That's a "false start." Enforce the rule.

The can be "set" an move as long as their set position doesn't involve one or both of their hands being on the ground. Once the hand goes down on the ground they cannot pick it up. If you look you will see the are in a position with their arms on their upper legs when they then move. So they are enforcing the rule as written

With this, I worry defenses are going to start jumping in to bait it. Which would be most annoying.

There is an easy remedy for that, one that we employed when I played in college 30 some years ago. Our offense would get set and if a D lineman jumped into the neutral zone, the center would simply snap the ball forcing the ref to throw the flag for offsides. Worked every time. 

no more half the distance to the gold for penalty yardage

if the ball is at the 11 yards line and there's a ten yard holding penalty, the ball goes to the 1.

Safety if it is on the 9?

It would be today, as you know, under a certain set of circumstances.

Safety if it is on the 9?

goes to the half yard line
but I kinda like the safety thing