Bryce Brown Considering The CFL Over NCAA
Total Pro Sports - The top rated High School running back in the nation Bryce Brown is considering signing with the Canadian Football League "CFL" over accepting a NCAA college football scholarship. This is not a mistake his manager Brian Butler has laid out all possibilities to Brown and one of them is the CFL.
"if approached by a Canadian Football League team, he’d consider sending Brown there. If they were talking about any amount of real money, I’d guarantee it,” Butler said of Brown potentially playing in the C.F.L. He mentioned a C.F.L. team paying Brown $5 million a year for three years." Told Brian Butler to the NY Times.
This may be hard to believe for most CFL fans considering that teams in the CFL have a salary cap of $4.2 million and Brown's agent is asking $5 million a season.
In my opionion this may be a great opportunity for the CFL to grow to that next level. $5 million is definletley kind of steep price to pay one player and the only teams in the CFL that can afford to pay Brown that kind of money are the Toronto Argos and the BC Lions.
“We’re not playing around. I can promise you that. I’m not scared at all to do anything, and Bryce isn’t either. Hey, he’ll hurt your feelings. He’s not worried about your feelings. He’s worried about what’s right and what’s wrong.”
In this day and age anything is possible, will we see an American high schooler flock to the CFL? Only time and money will tell.
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What a donkey move that would be!!!!!!!!!!!!!
«It may be a great opportunity for the CFL to grow to that next level» The next level?!!
Warren Moon, Jeff Garcia, Joe Teishman come from the CFL! Too name a few. Bryce Brown will never have that salary in the CFL and even before thinking about money he will have fist to make the team. It is not as easy as you think. Ask Ricky Williams, he played in both leagues and as a great respect for the Canadian game even do he did’t have success in Canada, he begame a great CFL fan. It’s a big mistake to juge the level of a sport by money. Many former NFL players come to Canada and don’t make it, or have very little success.
Think about the implications though. If this goes down, Brown could be the first in a long line of high school football stars out of the States who come play in the CFL for a few years to make a quick buck and get around the NFL’s two years out of high school rule. Realistically after he finishes that 3 year contract you’ll never see him in Canada again. Do we really want the CFL to become a development league for the NFL?