The NFL Needs a New Feeder System

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Published: August 22, 2009

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... a chance at an education. Colleges make a lot of money from it. It gives us another day of football.

As a feeder system to the NFL, though, it is woefully inadequate.

The biggest problem with college football is that of scale: there are simply too many colleges for the available talent pool.

Certainly, this serves to bring in a larger audience for the sport (more colleges, more students, alums and promotion), but it does little for the quality of competition.

As a result of the talent disparity, those players who do possess NFL-calibre talent often physically outmatch their opposition.

Brute strength or superior speed is usually enough to succeed at the college level, leaving such players unprepared for the technique-driven and planning-intensive world of pro football.

Quarterbacks, for example, rarely throw against press coverage in college, but that coverage is used frequently at the pro level. The reason? There simply aren't enough corners...

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