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College Football Enquirer

The College Football Draft? A debate on ways to replace recruiting in college football

College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports

News, Sports News, Football, College Basketball, College Football, Ncaa, Ncaa Basketball, Ncaa Football, Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast by reacting to the news that the Dartmouth Men's Basketball team is unionizing and yet another sign of college athletes eventually becoming employees of the school. It was teased in a pod last week and a full discussion on this topic has finally come: Could we ever see a college football draft that replaces the current chaos of recruitment?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode.

0:02.0

What if we had a draft to replace recruiting?

0:07.0

Deep thoughts, deep thoughts.

0:09.0

Also, helmet communications are here,

0:12.0

and a Kentucky high school prank goes way way wrong.

0:15.0

Time now for the college football

0:18.0

Inquirer with Dan Wetsall.

0:22.0

I have two points. One if I could go seven years without talking with Pat that would be

0:28.2

That guy is my hero. He got to go seven years

0:31.8

Angry I've been angry at Pat for seven years.

0:34.0

Ross Gellinger!

0:36.0

Everything kind of goes back to recruiting.

0:40.0

And I think the question is how do you get rid of it and certainly one of the ways mentioned by a few in the industry is have a draft and

0:50.0

S.I.S. Pat 40!

0:53.7

If we could draft our employees, we wouldn't have to have the waterfall and the lazy river and

1:00.7

the 19 people on the recruiting staff and all the other things that go along into

1:07.4

building up weaponized athletic department.

1:10.9

Here's Pat, Russ, and Dan.

1:14.0

All right, welcome to the pod, and this little news nugget works great for what we were wanting to discuss and tease.

1:22.0

We teased it a week ago.

1:25.1

Alert listeners. We're coming back to you. Then we wanted to discuss what if they got rid of

1:29.5

recruiting in college football, which is a tremendous debate or point.

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