PARROTHEAD Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 If he plays the XFL smart this time. Its a goldmine. Think if he can go after, and pay college recruits. Just like the minor leagues do for baseball. Many a fan will watch, and giving young players more than 20 hours of week of training and practice will push them and have the NFL drooling over the players. Biggest problem last time is it only used players not good enough for the NFL. Right formula could leave the league standing strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonebillsfan Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 1 minute ago, PARROTHEAD said: If he plays the XFL smart this time. Its a goldmine. Think if he can go after, and pay college recruits. Just like the minor leagues do for baseball. Many a fan will watch, and giving young players more than 20 hours of week of training and practice will push them and have the NFL drooling over the players. Biggest problem last time is it only used players not good enough for the NFL. Right formula could leave the league standing strong. Vince does not have the money to do this, nor does he have major network backing to bankroll the league this time. Leagues with real plans and real venues and real goals can't survive because football is an expensive sport. Vince paying DIII kids $10K a year to get their brains beat in on a rec league field for a month or two before he runs out of money is not going to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PARROTHEAD Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Thelonebillsfan said: Vince does not have the money to do this, nor does he have major network backing to bankroll the league this time. Leagues with real plans and real venues and real goals can't survive because football is an expensive sport. Vince paying DIII kids $10K a year to get their brains beat in on a rec league field for a month or two before he runs out of money is not going to work. I went to LSU. Ive seen players that probably could read and do math at a 4th grade level. And they were stuck at college, not getting paid, 20 hours of practice a week, while stuck in random courses hours a week. Say the XFL could land 10% of the top 500 to start out first couple seasons. They produce, go to the NFL in 3 years, only having to play football, and getting paid doing so. I think it could lead to 20-30% of the top 500 recruits in a short time. Which would help draw viewers if they became a playground for future NFL stars. First time around. He + NBC spent 35 million. Seems now hes upped that massively on his end alone to 100m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonebillsfan Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, PARROTHEAD said: I went to LSU. Ive seen players that probably could read and do math at a 4th grade level. And they were stuck at college, not getting paid, 20 hours of practice a week, while stuck in random courses hours a week. Say the XFL could land 10% of the top 500 to start out first couple seasons. They produce, go to the NFL in 3 years, only having to play football, and getting paid doing so. I think it could lead to 20-30% of the top 500 recruits in a short time. Which would help draw viewers if they became a playground for future NFL stars. First time around. He + NBC spent 35 million. Seems now hes upped that massively on his end alone to 100m. You're vastly underestimating the cost to run a professional sports league, Vince flat out does not have $100M in liquid capital to pour into a sports league, and without a TV network this will die before a single team has a single practice. And it won't get a TV network. Far more cohesive and well planned leagues than whatever this carny show ends up being failed at being the "NFL's farm system". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcb1213 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 He might have a shot at immediate success though long term it is going to be tough. If he can get players who will draw that the NFL just won't touch right now Tim Tebow Ccolin Kaepernick Ocho Cinco he's got a shot chances are it'll suck tho unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr LBC Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Sign-ups for Royal Rumble Entrants As many will remember, but I'll refresh for the benefit of folks less familiar like @bcb1213, every year to encourage watching Royal Rumble live together as a forum we sign up blindly for Rumble entry numbers and then celebrate/ridicule/complain about the person when it's revealed in the Rumble what (wrestler) entry corresponds to. It's all a bit of harmless fun to encourage activity, but that doesn't mean someone can't chest-thump if their entry wins the Rumble - even though I can tell you from experience that no one except the person who picked the winner from the previous year ever remembers who they had. I'll keep this list up-to-date and sign-ups will roll-on until the end of the Rumble kick-off show so that we can use them for both the Men's and Women's Rumble matches. 1) @bigbadbuff23835 2) @Troy Brown 3) @PARROTHEAD 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) @Adrenaline_Flux 13) @twslhs20 14) 15) 16) @Pastor Dillon 17) @The Gnat 18) @NcFinest9erFan 19) 20) @Texansfan713 21) @DawgX 22) 23) @djw4bucs 24) @1BackInBlackFan 25) @bcb1213 26) 27) 28) @klyon7634 29) @O'Doyle Rules 30) @The LBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NcFinest9erFan Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 56 minutes ago, The LBC said: Sign-ups for Royal Rumble Entrants As many will remember, but I'll refresh for the benefit of folks less familiar like @bcb1213, every year to encourage watching Royal Rumble live together as a forum we sign up blindly for Rumble entry numbers and then celebrate/ridicule/complain about the person when it's revealed in the Rumble what (wrestler) entry corresponds to. It's all a bit of harmless fun to encourage activity, but that doesn't mean someone can't chest-thump if their entry wins the Rumble - even though I can tell you from experience that no one except the person who picked the winner from the previous year ever remembers who they had. I'll keep this list up-to-date and sign-ups will roll-on until the end of the Rumble kick-off show so that we can use them for both the Men's and Women's Rumble matches. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30) sign ups first come, first serve? sorry, potential first year participant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Sign up blindly, so I'm assuming it's the first 30 or however many who sign up and then @The LBC randomizes it. That's how I understand it. I'm in and will check in some that day, I'm watching with a group of friends so I'll mainly be distracted by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcb1213 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I'm in. My friends and I do this every year. We all put in a dollar lol One year I got Pete Rose. That sucked lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr LBC Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 First come, first serve. No randomization about it. (If it were actually for something tangible randomization might make sense, but given that no one really knows the order anyway that is our randomization. Just fire your numbers out and I'll lock them into the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawgX Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I'll take #21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Doyle Rules Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Dillon Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I’m in. If we are picking numbers I’ll take 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PARROTHEAD Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Ill stick with 3 again this year. Heres last years order if anyone is interested. Quote 1 bkobow05 2 I_GET_SAX 3 PARROTHEAD 4 billzz 5 6 7 8 I <3 Faulk 9 10 SimsZilla 11 DawgX 12 13 CrashMan510 14 solidvikingfan 15 Pastor Dillon 16 biggio7 17 TheMonarch1110 18 44 19 MikeT14 20 Jeezla 21 1BackInBlackFan 22 hornbybrown 23 djw4bucs 24 stl4life07 25 bigbadbuff23835 26 O'Doyle Rules 27 steelcurtain29 28 klyon7634 29 Texansfan713 30 The LBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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