Coaches endorse 10th Assistant, No Fri Games & Dec Signing at AFCA

[Buffnik]

AFCA unanimously endorses adding 10th assistant coach, eliminating Friday games

http://footballscoop.com/news/afca-unanimously-endorses-adding-10th-assistant-coach/

AFCA endorses December early signing date

http://footballscoop.com/news/breaking-afca-proposing-early-signing-date/

 

[Medford M.]

Glad on the early signing period. Hope it passes. Recruiting is too long and becomes too much of a spectacle.

 

[Buffnik]

Glad on the early signing period. Hope it passes. Recruiting is too long and becomes too much of a spectacle.

I thought it was interesting that college coaches were totally against the June signing date proposal by the NCAA. I hadn't thought of it, but the points the AFCA makes are really good. June would be too early to have a good enough idea on academic qualifying. Also, it's very likely to lead to some players deciding to skip their senior season in high school and that would just suck for football.

 

[Buffnik]

Another one that probably makes sense:

 

[BuffLuke80]

I like that one.

 

[SINKRATZ]

Seems like it will create the football equivalent of September call ups. Not sure I like.

 

[Medford M.]

Seems like it will create the football equivalent of September call ups. Not sure I like.

Then you must really hate the idea of letting redshirts play in bowl games and not losing a year of eligibility.

 

[Duff Man]

Then you must really hate the idea of letting redshirts play in bowl games and not losing a year of eligibility.

Hence his post in the thread....

 

[Medford M.]

Hence his post in the thread....

I meant the idea of that being the only game they were allowed to play in.

 

[hokiehead]

I'm not aware of the AFCA and their history. Have this organization's resolutions generally resulted in changes to NCAA policy? Or is this representative of a bunch of people asking for for things they largely won't get?

 

[skibum]

I'm not aware of the AFCA and their history. Have this organization's resolutions generally resulted in changes to NCAA policy? Or is this representative of a bunch of people asking for for things they largely won't get?

Pretty sure it's the latter.

 

[hokiehead]

Pretty sure it's the latter.

thanks. I was correct in tempering my excitement over the Friday game issue.

 

[SINKRATZ]

Then you must really hate the idea of letting redshirts play in bowl games and not losing a year of eligibility.

That's different than getting to play 4 games, but yes I also hate that idea. I don't think it's fair to opponents or players who played all season to have a handful of freshman suddenly become part of a game plan in a bowl game.

 

[Buffnik]

I'm not aware of the AFCA and their history. Have this organization's resolutions generally resulted in changes to NCAA policy? Or is this representative of a bunch of people asking for for things they largely won't get?

New leadership of AFCA wants to make the group much more active in voicing its opinions and driving changes to the NCAA. This is a new thing for the coaches.