I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
Football has been my life.
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.
You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?
I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
As a part of the NFL, things change every year.