First he stiffed AU, then LSU. Now the Clearing House has their say about Powe. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20.../08/26/bc.fbc.misssissippi.powe.ap/index.html JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Prized recruit Jerrell Powe will not play for the Mississippi football team this season. The school announced Saturday that Powe has been denied eligibility by the NCAA Clearinghouse. The 6-foot-3, 330-pound Parade All-American from Waynesboro, Miss., originally signed with Ole Miss in 2005, but failed to meet academic requirements and enrolled at Hargrave Military Academy. Unheard of, 2 from Hargrave will not play this year: Powe and I believe Ford at bama. That was a lot of money spent for nothing.
I don't know about AU, but LSU backed off Powe big time when it became apparent he had no business attending college. His academic standing has always been below the line. People like him are the reason the NFL needs a minor league to develop players that are just not college material. And then quit robbing colleges of players that are!
If the NFL is allowed to develop a minor league it will be the kiss of death for college football, just like the baseball minor leagues has been for college baseball. Many of your top college players will go directly into the minor league. It's all about money.
Can't agree. College baseball is better than ever, year after year. Many good ones go to MLB. Can't blame 'em. But the game is good and will be good. If there were minor league football, and there won't be because the NFL owners know they've got a minor league system now that costs them nothing, you probably would lose some marquis (dummy) players but I don't see it as a big time hit to the quality of college football. Just don't see it.
I absolutely agree with your last point. Plus, college football creates instant marquis names for the NFL to market and profit off of from Day One (Reggie Bush for example). With a minor league system, that is more marketing and work the NFL has to do to get player names out in the media.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/sports/gatech/stories/0826cfbrecruits.html Recruits of interest to LSU and LSU's fans that didn't make it to their respective schools: Marcus Udell, Alabama (I believe he was verballed to LSU at one point) Moncell Allen, UK (New Orleans native who enrolled at BR's St. Michaels High after Katrina)
I disagree completely. While college baseball losses most of the best players to the major league draft it is hardly noticeable due to many factors. It has flourished in the past several years because baseball is such a hard sport to evaluate players in and because players develope at a much slower pace. But I think the biggest difference would be that we actually know who all of the best football players are in the country and would know that most of them were in the minor leagues if the NFL were to start one. We also would not see the best skill position players, who are what makes the college game so attractive. We'd be left with the QB's who would normally be starting at an SLU or ULM throwing to WR's who would normally be at a school like Arkansas St. We'd know the difference and the attention would eventually go down I think.
Ole Miss would be a fool to play a NCAA ineligible player. They could end up forfeiting any game they play him in. They will NOT be impressed by a local judge trying to interfere and Ole Miss does NOT need to be on the NCAA chit list. Those NCAA bastards are vindictive. They can find something and make it stick to any school. Remember Dale Brown and Tarkanian or Alabama football for that matter. The NCAA was determined to get them and eventually they got all three.
