SAN JOSE \u2014 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league would be willing to help solve some of the challenges facing the tumultuous world of college football, but only if its input is solicited and welcome. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot of change going on and a lot of disruption, and they do need to bring some clarity to that,\u201d Goodell said during his annual Super Bowl week press conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s something that, if for some reason we could be helpful with the right people, we would obviously be willing to engage with anybody. But I think we try to stay in our lane unless we\u2019re invited in to be part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodell acknowledged the NFL is following the two cases in college basketball where players who had been drafted by the NBA are attempting to return to college careers<\/a>. It\u2019s also tracking the larger conversation around possible legislation to address college sports governance issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n He championed the NFL\u2019s eligibility rules as being good for the league, the players and college sports. The NFL requires players to be at least three years removed from high school and have exhausted or forfeited their collegiate eligibility. <\/p>\n \u201cWe keep a close eye on this,\u201d Goodell said. \u201cI think our eligibility rule is really good for young men who play our sport. It gives them a chance to mature and get an education, which will benefit them for a lifetime. I also think [the rules] develop stars. They come in as stars, and I think the strength of college is something that I think is good for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n Goodell said the league will \u201cdo everything we can\u201d to continue to defend its eligibility rule.<\/p>\n The original question asked Goodell if he felt the changes in college football were a threat to the NFL. He did not address that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league would be willing to help solve some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,229862,596,704,593,21890,85],"class_list":["post-454737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-nfl","tag-sec","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}