jwr@ihlpf.UUCP (06/21/84)
#R:ccieng5:-49100:ihlpf:8800001:000:3092 ihlpf!ctb Jun 15 15:38:00 1984 good point. i had forgot that i even subscribed to this notes group. you're right. we(well, i) don't give a *&$@! about the USFL. i think in the long run it's not the best thing for pro football. it dilutes the quality of play. in pro football you have X players. you have G good players (above average) and S superstars (very few, one or two per team perhaps). then there are the masses, M. these are the average, sub-average players. VERY ROGHLY M = 80% of X G = 10-15% of X S = 5-10% of X these are rough numbers, and not too important to the point i'm trying to make. the number of superstars is more or less a constant. a certain number of superstars join the ranks of pro football every year. (it varies, but remember, we're looking at the BIG picture). the number of good players is also something of a constant. the number of the rest (the masses, M) is a variable, depending on the number of slots left in pro football after the G's and S's have found their spot. it should be obvious that if an S or G comes along he WILL make it on an existing pro team, simply because he's in the top 20% or so of his peers. if you accept my premise that S and G are roughly constants and the M's fill the rest of the holes, the rest is easy... when you add a new league a couple of things happen: a) you create more slots. this does NOT increase the number of G's or S's. remember, they would have made it in the original league simply by the fact they are G's or S's. so we have increased (in the case of the USFL, greatly increased) the the number of M's playing ball. more people who would have originally been 'cut' are on the team. b) (this follows from a) the QUALITY of players on a team (quality = percentage of S's and G's of the entire teams lineup) goes down. team=S + G + M, and M just went WAY up. and BOOM, (b) is my reason for not liking the USFL. i think the overall quality of football goes DOWN when the talent is spread so thin. i don't think there is enough talent to support both leagues. not that new teams shouldn't be considered/added, but to add a whole new league in one shot with the NFL big as it is..... all that comes from the football purist in me. on the other side of the fence, the USFL just represents another reason NFL players can hold out for more money(even though they never intend to go to the USFL). it makes contract negotiations nasty, saleries higher, and holdouts more abundant. i think all that crap get's in the way of FOOTBALL. ok, there's my reply. tear it up, guys(gals, whatever!). replies to: ...!ihdev!rjv can you tell i went to a football school?? boomer sooner, ron ps this has NOTHING to do with college football. i don't want to hear the ol' "there's HUNDREDS" of college football teams. different story. they have different divisions, they don't play at a PRO level, they have...TCU! (sorry mom, sorry dad) when you walk into a college game, you expect a lot of no-names. pps besides all that, i hate watching a game where there are more players than fans.