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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final
« on: January 07, 2024, 10:43:14 PM »Most of the SDSU All-Americans or all-conference players have used up their eligibility. Also, the announcers today said that the stud running back is declaring for the NFL draft. And there is a rumor that the SDSU OC is heading to the big time and likely to take the quarterback with him. I don't mean to downplay the gap between them and us. It is formidable. But they will not be as dominant next season.
The "professionalization" of college sports might end up helping us more than it hurts us. We have seen the last of the FCS super teams. Under the new rules, all of those SDSU stars would have been gobbled up by the P5 and paid much more than SDSU could handle. You will never again see legitimate pro prospects playing in the FCS as seniors; they will all be stolen and paid very well after one or two seasons at our level.
Our Penguin Collective NIL won't shield us from raids, but it will give us an advantage over 90% of FCS schools who have nothing.
I think this post is prescient. I took believe that this is what will happen. It's more pronounced in baseball right now (my opinion based on impact to the sport with a smaller number of players on a team vs football). I have personal knowledge in this area. In baseball they expect the D2 kids that should have been D1 to move up and the D1 kids that should have been D2 to move down, sort of a natural reshuffling of the sport that wouldn't have happened if coaches and recruiting services had gotten it right in the recruiting process).
I think the same thing will happen in FCS, less the kids that are loyal to a program or a program that can actually win a national title.