Your comment on players wanting to unionize got me to thinking, when will the NCAA get smart and quit being the NFL's free player development farm system? Its high time they wise up and let players go directly to the NFL if they want to--sure, a few superstars will survive the jump, but by and large, football players really benefit from 4-5 years in college, getting coached up and developing physically. Let the NFL pay for the years it takes to get these kids built into NFL players. And if the kids don't think they can make the immediate jump then fine, play college ball and get the scholarship, but their argument about deserving to get paid just went out the window when they went the way of the easy money in the form of a scholarship and so much as admitted they need college ball as much as it needs them. Another benefit I could see is this would level the playing field for schools like WSU, as the Alabamas and Ohio States of the league would no longer be stockpiling kids that are damn near NFL ready out of high school, and would be forced to rely on the kids that need some developing. Sure, they'd still get the cream of the crop of the 3 star kids, but there's a hell of a lot more of those than the 4 and 5 stars that could make the jump to the NFL.