www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33341262/xfl-petri-dish-football-innovation-prospect-development-part-partnership-agreement-nfl
Ok, to summarize all of this: - The NFL and XFL have a partnership. - Partnership includes the XFL being an experimental league to try out new rules. - Partnership does NOT include player sharing for developing, but DOES include potentially developing referees and coaches for NFL. I do have to question Dany Garcia on one point though: Asked whether the XFL could one day evolve into a position to use allocated NFL players or construct another kind of sharing agreement, as occurred in NFL Europe, Garcia said: "That's a no. We are a spring league. We will play at the highest level in the spring. There is not the anticipation of any player sharing that changes the dynamic. That's not how we're executing our vision." Yeah. Bullshit. If the thought of eventually developing a more stable partnership/affiliation with the NFL wasn't included in your vision of what the XFL 3.0 would hope to be, then what is the point? The more the XFL and NFL share, the deeper the ties between the two leagues, the more MONEY the NFL spends to support the league. C'mon...There is no reason you can't be a spring league AND have some kind of player sharing arrangements...When it comes to practice squad players who never see game time, etc, there is no reason why they couldn't spend the NFL season on an NFL team's practice squad, and then in the spring, get a chance to actually play in meaningful games, in the hopes of developing enough to get off the practice squad... The only reason to fund a spring football league, is because you hope to broker a deal with the NFL to become an official minor league...because that's where the money is...
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