How would "Free" College affect Recruiting and CFB?

This would have no affect on the players and which team they would select. The vast majority of these kids in the top 300 know they're getting college for free so regardless it's just picking the school that's the best fit for them.

Devry will win a national championship

If this hypothetical is based on a "certain candidate's proposals" then it would mean that the federal government would finance tuition for students attending public (state) universities.  It would have no effect on students attending private universities. (For those who are still unsure, Michigan and Cal are public universities. Stanford and Northwestern are not.)  

So the immediate effect would be that a student-athlete who had their heart set on playing for Michigan, but failed to qualify for a scholarship, and whose family could not afford the tuition, would be more likely to do so.

There would still be some additional benefits to being a scholarship athlete, but the opportunity cost between walking on at Michigan and getting a scholarship at a lesser school would make it manageable option for many more students.

So Michigan would get a lot more quality walkons who might be able to get a scholarship to Purdue or Rutgers, who would now be able to afford to pass on a full scholarship elsewhere to go to their preferred school. 

It wouldnt help you pull in 4* or 5* players, but Michigan could probably add a few quality 3* ish players every year that it might otherwise not have room for.  

If it happens, you better believe that Jim Harbaugh would be recruiting preferred walk-ons with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

 

 

A)  Pretty sure it only applies to in-state students, so the effect would be somewhat limited for a team that recruits nationally. 
 

B)  Pretty sure said candidate is, if you look at the math, in pretty bad shape in terms of getting elected
 

C)  Pretty sure that, even if he were elected, such a plan would never get off the ground in Congress anyway. 


So it probably isn't worth worrying too much about. 

free college won't happen and effect and affect are still debateable. But this is what would happen, even though we know it will not become an issue:

D1 athletes are not going to accept 20 more hours of work each week without some form of compensation. Recognizing this as being an absolute truth, the NCAA would have to devise a formula, fair to all, factoring in the fact that education at UM, Stanford, Duke, ND, and a few others are more valuable than the others. Bottom line:

Student-athletes would be given an agreed up on amount of money, payable monthly if they meet the terms of their agreement w/any given school and SEC schools would still hold an advantage because they would double the "agreed upon amount; therefore, status quo would go unchanged.

The fact that someone actually believes that a certain candidate becoming elected could actually cause college to ever become free is cute.  No wonder they make all of these ridiculous promises.

We should just make everything free...take away everyone's incentive to excel....then break up into multiple smaller nations....nearly all impoverished.  It worked for the USSR...it can work here.