Quote Originally Posted by texaspackerbacker View Post
First of all, the NCAA shouldn't have objections if the 3 year thing was kept. A D league definitely would NOT be designed to replace college football. While development would be a part of it, it wouldn't be the primary thing either. If you had a couple of players a year per team come up through the ranks, that would be fine. It would be a way for the NFL team to stockpile more than the current practice squads, and I do think people would pay a little bit to watch, assuming the teams were linked to the local NFL team. I know I would. A key element to this would be having the parent team retain rights to at least a large part of the players - as they basically do not with practice squads now.
I hope the NFL keeps the 3 year thing. I don't think freshmen and sophomore students (I'm not talking about redshirt sophomores here) should be knocking heads with full grown men already in the NFL.