Doesn’t look like we have a thread going for the spring league just yet, so I’ll start us off.
Columbus Aviators have announced their head coach;
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Makes sense. They need a guy from the area to drum up support.
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I don’t think he’s done much coaching at all. Hope the on-field product doesn’t suffer.
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That’s generally that BS “the college football fans” will show up theory.
I figure it can’t hurt, but that local former college player theory is not going to launch this league as had been presented for expansion one season ago and the like grand claims for years now for spring football.
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I’d say you have a good point but the college fans thing is probably the biggest reason teams in smaller leagues do this sort of thing.
The league has canned three experienced coaches so far, including Bob Stoops on Monday, with one in St. Louis, Anthony Becht, actively working to find his way out.
For those losing count, that’s at least half the coaches who will be new, lest a dissatisfied Becht stick around, which will likely be an underperforming same difference.
So much for all that savings that was presented months ago after they fired the general managers, which was supposed to be used to pay coaches more as alleged by some who buy into what Repole is doing so far.
I’ll wait and see now before having any optimism.
They are well on their way back to being simply a hub league feeder league and temporary employment agency for the NFL, akin to the G League for the NBA.
I’m thinking that was the original plan behind the USFL 2.0 in 2022 when they launched that hub league, and here we are back to that the way the proceedings have gone in this edition of spring football, the UFL 4.5.
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That’s now 5 of the 8 coaches either shit-canned, “retiring,” leaving, or wanting to leave.
Gee, do you think these five coaches know something about the operations of the league office that we don’t?
Of course they do, for also the details of those with severance are confidential.
This league is going to the gutter fast. I don’t see solid players rushing to it either.
Here was the previously mentioned announcement from Monday on Bob Stoops suddenly “retiring.”
I’m sure those spring football fanboys are chock full of excuses and reasons for why this news is all great for the UFL, and I’m sure they’ll go back and fetch some more buckets of water from Mike Repole’s office at every turn of such bad news as well.
They’ll probably think a hub league is a great thing again too and believe that’s “major league” for pro football as well, all from the comfort of a dark basement or creaky shed.
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And I have not forgotten about YOU Dave Naylor either with your crappy theory that younger pro college players are heading for the UFL instead of many of those for the CFL.
Dave Naylor you also ignore that most of those pro athletes good enough to play after college are already making more than UFL money per year via the NCAA and pro college football via NIL and revenue sharing, when in fact the general plan is first the NFL Draft, then NFL practice rosters, then for those will will look north, the CFL.
UFL and any other football options are a distant fourth at best, except for perhaps specialty players like kickers, punters, long snappers, and the occasional return specialist.
Read up and keep yourself far more updated, Dave Naylor!
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Another head coach announced, this time for Birmingham;
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No Skip Holtz, no Bob Stoops.
Spring football just won’t be the same.
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Pretty crazy if this is true
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Well, at this point, I think everybody except the fanboys, fawning over the likes of 32-team spring football expansion plans from 2 years ago floating around social media and YouTube, can see where this league is going fast.
It may as well be called the USFL 3.0.
The UFL 4.5 is an NFL temp agency. Now they do have better stadium deals with smaller venues, but now there is the reality that they just might resort to the hub model for teams again so as to slash travel costs.
It’s back to the future of the USFL 2.0, but with new twists and so it’s becoming the USFL 3.0.
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Is this guy 22 years old?
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No, but he was a former player not that long ago, so after Ted Ginn, Junior, they are clearly going with the “younger, cheaper, former college star former pro player” coach model after sending the more experienced guys off or encouraging them to leave.
Let’s remember those experienced coaches were the guys who were alleged to be getting more money by the fanboys once the news hit by October that they were cutting the general managers to save all those higher sums, not that there was not some fat to be trimmed of course.
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Why are we blowing up rosters 
This league is so amateur
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Well it’s not amateur of course, but it’s closer to amateur as we had known it quite long ago in pro college football, as in perhaps before the 1970s.
In Item 1 for the Player Pool, it’s basically about the same reality as before, but it can’t be clearer that it’s a temporary employment agency for the NFL.
The whole operation is certainly going to be on a budget that is leaner to operate and NOT expand, or at least not expansion as we had foreseen with independent and real teams as opposed to centrally-controlled branches all handled operationally out of Arlington, Texas.
In Item 3 for the “College Allocation,” basically they are borrowing an old idea in pro sports, as in pro basketball, that dates back to the 1960s. Regional drafts for a “national” league are STUPID.
Oh well, let’s enjoy watching this slow-motion train wreck for the USFL 3.0.
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Kinda dumb but if I’m bored enough I’ll be interested in following which players go where
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Skip Holtz out and AJ is the new HC. As @Paolo_X says let’s watch the train wreck.
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And Dave Naylor can certainly shut up now about the CFL losing “young players” to the UFL.
But he dug that hole for himself in the first place for no good reason!
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