The NFL is looking into creating a developmental league. I say why not?! What do you guys think?!
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Via RU:
…the NFL appears to be the last of the four major sports set to follow suit, as the league prepare to establish its own “developmental” league.
Troy Vincent, the league’s new director of football operations, now views this as a priority: For more, click here for the originating story from ESPN:
New director of football operations Troy Vincent can see in the NFL’s future a developmental league, an eighth official on the field for games, and coaches using tablets on the sidelines to call plays.
“Each of us shares the responsibility for preserving and growing the game,” Vincent said before mentioning some specific projects that could be on the NFL’s horizon.
One is establishing a developmental league.
“We need to keep the pipeline of talent flowing, and that means for all areas of our game: players, coaches, scouts, game officials. I am responsible to look at whatever the competition committee looks at, and that includes a developmental league.
