Whether football purists like it or not, the XFL is coming. Again.

Vince McMahon announced the revival of the professional football league on Thursday, which had everyone from Johnny Manziel to Jared Lorenzen getting hyped. With the league not kicking off until 2020, there will be 2 years of buildup. In that time, many questions will be answered about the league.

How much are guys getting paid? Who broadcasts the games? Is it in better position to threaten the NFL product than last time?

For the sake of this argument, let’s shift our focus from how the XFL could impact the NFL, and instead think about how it could impact the college game.

In order to tackle that question, it should first be established what the new XFL is NOT, at least according to McMahon.

“One thing we are not is a development league for the NFL,” McMahon said via ESPN.

In other words, McMahon has no plans on building the league around a bunch of 20-year-olds with the ultimate goal of getting guys to the NFL. The focus, rather, seems like more of what the USFL tried to do back in the 1980s. The goal was to get stars who only wanted to play in the USFL. The only way anything like that can ever happen, of course, is money.

McMahon’s desire not to fall into the “developmental” category suggests that the chances of the XFL going on to college campuses and poaching underclassmen seems far-fetched. College football always has been and always will be the developmental league for the NFL, as people like Mike Vrabel pointed out earlier in the week.

The XFL isn’t breaking up that model. The idea that someone at a big-time college program would drop everything to go play in an upstart league seems far-fetched. Unless the XFL sheds the whole “not a developmental league” claim and starts offering millions of dollars to underclassmen, it shouldn’t have any impact on college stars.

Besides not being a developmental league, McMahon made it pretty clear that the XFL is not going to be “Last Chance U.”

“We are evaluating a player based on many things, including the quality of human being they are,” McMahon said via ESPN. “If you have any sort of criminal record or commit a crime you aren’t playing in this league.”

In other words, there shouldn’t be scenarios in which college players get kicked off the team and immediately scooped up by the XFL. For the Manziels of the world (he had a misdemeanor domestic violence charge dismissed), it’ll depend on what the league defines as “committing a crime.”

What could appeal to the XFL is adding college players with academic issues. A player that’s ruled ineligible for academic reasons and not because they committed a crime could certainly have a future in the XFL.

It could even impact the graduate transfer market. If a graduated senior has a chance to choose another year at a new school or perhaps a 6- or 7-figure payday in the XFL, maybe the latter would make more sense. That would still allow the XFL to keep its “non-developmental league” claim.

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From the player personnel side, that’s about the only way I see the XFL making a dent in the college game. From a coaching personnel perspective, that could be a tad more interesting.

We know that there will be 8 teams and 40-man rosters. We don’t know the exact size of the coaching staffs. In the old XFL, teams had a head coach and 10 assistants. If that’s the case, that would mean the league would need 88 total coaches (11 x 8 = 88).

Call me crazy, but I think the XFL would have more success poaching college assistants than NFL assistants. It might also be appealing for certain failed NFL assistants to go to the XFL instead of trying to find a college position. Not everyone likes to recruit, and if the money is comparable, why not?

Of course, all of these scenarios depend on if the product on the field is worth watching. For all the flaws of the 2001 XFL, that was at the root of all of them. If the XFL is just a bunch of over-the-hill players trying to hold on for dear life, it’s not really going to even scratch the beast that is college football.

Based on the way non-NFL professional football leagues usually go, I tend to believe that’ll wind up being the case.

We won’t really know how big or little of an impact the XFL has on the college game until 2020 rolls around. For all we know, 2 years from now we could be talking about how fired up we are to see Manziel take on Tim Tebow in the XFL opener. What a world that would be.

But for now, it’s still college football’s world, and the XFL is a long way away from living in it.