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Title: 2018 OT Tourney (Quarterfinals) - End of TV Monopoly vs. Early NFL Draft Entry
Post by: ELA on July 25, 2018, 08:04:37 AM

SYSTEMIC CHANGES

End of TV monopoly

~~Recruiting coverage~~

Early NFL Draft entry

~~Conference networks~~

SYSTEM RULE CHANGES

Academic ineligibility

~~CFP~~

~~Conference championship games~~

Scholarship limits

GAME RULE CHANGES

~~Narrower hashmarks~~

~~Tearaway jerseys banned~~

Play clock modifications

GAME PLAY CHANGES

~~Wishbone~~

SEC integration

Read option

~~Film study~~

Title: Re: 2018 OT Tourney (Quarterfinals) - End of TV Monopoly vs. Early NFL Draft Entry
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 25, 2018, 08:26:20 PM

The early draft entry has had a major hand in who did or didn't win the national championship since it began in 1990.

Title: Re: 2018 OT Tourney (Quarterfinals) - End of TV Monopoly vs. Early NFL Draft Entry
Post by: ELA on July 25, 2018, 08:39:55 PM

Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 25, 2018, 08:26:20 PM

The early draft entry has had a major hand in who did or didn't win the national championship since it began in 1990.

Yes, but I still think the end of the TV Monopoly was bigger and better (which is how I've voted). If this was a basketball discussion I think it would be closer.

Title: Re: 2018 OT Tourney (Quarterfinals) - End of TV Monopoly vs. Early NFL Draft Entry
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 25, 2018, 09:22:09 PM

I think OSU could've used another year of Terry Glenn - it's only loss 13-9 to Michigan in what would've been his SR season.
Tennessee might've preferred having Heath Shuler another season instead of tossing true FR Todd Helton and Peyton Manning to the wolves in '94.
Does OSU lost 4 games in '94 with Dan Wilkinson plugging up the middle?
Florida doesn't lose 4 games in which they gave up 30+ points in '99 if they still had 2 first-round defenders.
The early 2000s Miami dynasty probably starts a year earlier if Edgerrin James sticks around.

How many QBs wish their left tackle hadn't left early? How many absent shutdown CBs caused a DC to have to earn his paycheck?

Title: Re: 2018 OT Tourney (Quarterfinals) - End of TV Monopoly vs. Early NFL Draft Entry
Post by: ELA on July 25, 2018, 09:47:24 PM

Yeah, but all of those top teams have that, so I think it sort of washes out. In basketball, the one and done has fundamentally changed how the top teams build rosters