Recruiting still exists. At some point in the offseason recruits have to select their top ten. They must sign waivers indicating they will play and attend any of those ten schools.
Do a giant draft. Maybe you split up P5 and G5 into two drafts, maybe not. Teams can only draft players that are in the player’s top ten. You can only draft as many players as you have schollies available. Draft order is determined by your conference standings. Each year draft order rotates (meaning in year one draft order goes Pac 12, SEC, Big 12, Big 10, ACC, then the next year draft order goes ACC, Pac 12, SEc, Big 12, Big 10, etc.). So the first 7 picks in a draft could look like this:
1. Pac 12 – 12th best team
2. SEC – 12th best team
3. Big 12 – 12th best team
4. Big 10 – 12th best team
5. ACC – 12th best team
6. Pac 12 11th best team
7. SEC – 11th best team and so on
Again, you can only draft players that put you in their top 10. Invariably, this creates two issues:
1. Teams that don’t get enough players to put them in their top 10, or who run out of players to choose from mid-draft
2. Players that don’t end up getting drafted or all their top ten teams fill up the schollies before the draft ends
To the first issue: P5 teams in this rut could draft from available G5 draftees (players who only have G5 schools in their top 10) and the player can choose to accept or reject the draft offer. Alternatively, they must wait until the draft ends and recruit from the undrafted pool of players to fill their available scholarships.
To the second issue: Players can have a backup of five additional teams that kick in when they don’t get drafted by anyone in their top ten. If they don’t get drafted after that, they must go the walk on route, JUCO, or FCS.
Thoughts? I’m sure this creates a whole other host of issues but I think it would be pretty dang interesting to see how it unfolds.
Mississippi Valley State @ 
Utah 
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