I'm not saying that the Griz should go this route, but I think there is room in the space for a team to using moving up to the FBS as a recruiting pitch. "We have helped get WR, a QB, and two Punters to FBS schools and one 25% of those players got drafted into the NFL." There is an open space in recruiting based on that. It wouldn't be best for us at Montana, but for a school like, say, Eastern Washington to start pitching that they will actively develop you and help you get to the FBS might help them get some recruits they otherwise might not.Also, I have a general question: CBB players can declare for the NBA Draft early and then change their minds before the deadline. Has there been CBB coach who said "no" to someone who withdraws his name and wants to come back (absent other issues)? Clearly, the player must have borderline NBA talent to even declare, right? So that's a pretty good thing to have back on the college team. What if an FCS football program treated it the same way (replacing NBA with FBS)?
I say this to agree with you that there can and will be a lot of re-thinking about how kids are recruited and retained at this level. I don't think that the example I gave is best for Missoula, as we have far more recruiting tools in our belt, but to highly agree with you that there are going to be young coaches disrupting this industry with new pitches and strategies that meet this new moment and new reality of CFB.