Nebraska may cancel Spring game

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Seems like short sighted paranoia to me. Shit on your loyal fans and announce to the world you don't trust your players or your own relationships with them...so we will lock em up behind closed doors.
Brilliant! Nobody knows who is on your roster? That will keep people from offering incentives for players to leave? Beginning of the end for Coach Rhule.
 

I'm a diehard CFB fan in every aspect, but Spring Games are something I just don't care about, never have. Before social media and 24/7 access to teams, it was a chance to see how your new roster looks, but these days I just don't care until mid-way through fall camp when we actually have an idea of lineups and depth charts.
 


Mustang68 said:
Just have everyone wear the same jersey number - total portal poaching confusion.
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They are talking to the same cryptographers who invented the sideline boards with Spongebob, a footlong turkey sandwich, Warren Buffett, and Klay Thompson on them.

The same ones who made up any video game roster without an official license.

Dylan Raiola will be #51 Hammock Pirates (an anagram for you-know-who)
 

Did PJ cancel this year's spring game or was it nonexistent to begin with?
 
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Imagine if this was how it was in the NFL. Cancelling preseason games for fear that players would transfer to another team.

Just absurd.


We need player contracts. Yesterday. 2-3 year deals. Obviously no one can force you to stay on the team or even at the school, but if you aren't released from your deal (which should be an option) then you can't even train, lift, participate with another team for that length of time.
 

If a guy is going to transfer do you want him on your squad? Get the right guys, do right by them and they will stay. At least one would hope so.
 






Sad reality of this current messed up landscape that teams even have to factor something like this in. Seems like you could work something out to still hold the spring game for the fans but not let it be televised if that is important to your program from a fan relations standpoint.
 



GopherEnEspaña said:
I'm a diehard CFB fan in every aspect, but Spring Games are something I just don't care about, never have. Before social media and 24/7 access to teams, it was a chance to see how your new roster looks, but these days I just don't care until mid-way through fall camp when we actually have an idea of lineups and depth charts.
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I'm kinda going this route too. I mean, there's a chance some of the guys who standout will transfer and so why get excited?
 

GopherEnEspaña said:
I'm a diehard CFB fan in every aspect, but Spring Games are something I just don't care about, never have. Before social media and 24/7 access to teams, it was a chance to see how your new roster looks, but these days I just don't care until mid-way through fall camp when we actually have an idea of lineups and depth charts.
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Spring "games" have always just been glorified scrimmages anyway. They get a lot of attention at places like Nebraska where you have a really dedicated fanbase with nothing else to do with their time but overall they really aren't that big of a deal and quite a few places are moving away from the concept.

That said they can be a fun fan event during the long period from the end of the season to the start of the next one as long as you are somewhere that weather isn't an issue.
 

I just assume Gopher spring games will be indoors and/or closed to the general public going forward, which is fine with me. PJ has been criticized for moving them indoors due to weather, but I think it was always the right call, and now I don’t have to keep logging into GopherHole to see if the game is on or off for us hoi polloi.
 


Though fun to attend, I don't see any benefit to having a spring game. Yes, it gives me a football-jones fix. Other than that, what is gained? I'm all for never having one again.
 

highwayman said:
Though fun to attend, I don't see any benefit to having a spring game. Yes, it gives me a football-jones fix. Other than that, what is gained? I'm all for never having one again.
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Pretty much agree. One of the possibilities is injury of an important player. The Pro Bowl isn't played anymore, maybe college can do skill drills like the pros.
 

Practice. We're talking about...practice. Not a game.
 

Ope3 said:
Practice. We're talking about...practice. Not a game.
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It would be them kissing away $900,000 in ticket revenue for a practice, if they cancel it.
 


Ope3 said:
Practice. We're talking about...practice. Not a game.
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yeah....some teams do try to make it seem more like a game but in the end, even at its best it is just an open scrimmage.

It can be a fun wrap to the spring practice session for the fans but in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter if a team does or doesn't have a "spring game".
 


Many schools are cancelling them.
 


Based on construction Nebraska probably was going to cancel spring 2026 anyways. Just one year earlier
 

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