A Modest Proposal (for leveling the playing field)

We keep seeing the same teams vying for the national championship. Why is that? The answer is undoubtable multifaceted, but list at least includes money, coaching and talented players.
Money enables schools to build better facilities to house and feed the student-athletes. Money can be used to improve practicing facilities and stadiums. Money will also draw talented coaches and staff.
Some coaches are just better than others. A few come up with innovative play concepts that work on the field. Some are more adept at adapting their programs to the personnel they have. Some coaches can make in-game changes better than others. All try, but not all are successful at connecting with the players and motivating the team.
And then there are the players that are faster, stronger, and/or smarter. Some have leadership skills that are critical to creating winning programs. In other words, more talented.
So, IF folks wanted to level the playing field, how could that be done? I imagine that there could be ways to limit the amount money available to the teams. In my opinion, any scheme that would attempt to do that would be complicated and some schools would find ways to "cheat". How do you limit the abilities of a coach? I think it might be easier to impact the player quality available to teams.
My suggestion is to temporarily increase the number of scholarships available to teams that finish at the bottom of their conference. The conference champion would not be "punished" for winning and would retain their 85 scholarships but the schools that finished below them would be temporarily allotted proportionally more scholarships up to a maximum of (suggested) 88. Any of these temporary scholarships would expire at the end of 4 years.
This change would not obviate the power of money nor the talent of Sabin-like coaches, but making more scholarships available to schools without those advantages could add to a larger pool of quality players for them and has the potential to add some intrigue to the national championship.
As an added bonus, coaches would be more inclined to rest a marginally injured player because other talented players would be available to play.

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