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Has the NCAA ever considered allowing a real spring game or controlled scrimmage? Gophers versus Iowa State for instance.

It would allow the coaches and players to go against someone other than their teammates and also be an indicator of how much progress the team has made during Spring ball.

Just a thought even though I realize it probably will never happen.
 

I think it would be a great idea and would provide a fun element and change of pace. Obviously the concern is injuries, but injuries can (and unfortunately do) happen in practice, intra-squad spring games, etc.

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Unless it's a 3-5 hour spring game it makes no sense. 1/2 the kids wouldn't see the field. You don't even have freshmen in camp yet. Some schools depending on balance in class don't have enough healthy bodies in spring on occasion.


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And on cold games I don't even want to know how much more our coach bundles up.
 

Bayfieldgopher said:
Has the NCAA ever considered allowing a real spring game or controlled scrimmage? Gophers versus Iowa State for instance.

It would allow the coaches and players to go against someone other than their teammates and also be an indicator of how much progress the team has made during Spring ball.

Just a thought even though I realize it probably will never happen.
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Every one would want to be the home team. Travel costs would be a concern. It will never happen.
 

swgopherdog said:
Every one would want to be the home team. Travel costs would be a concern. It will never happen.
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Fans would love it but I don't think the coaches would have any desire what so ever to go up against another team. Spring is about evaluating your team and working on fixing issues from the fall as well as getting new players reps and practice. The last thing they would want to do is spend time preparing a game plan for another opponent and using valuable practice time working on getting ready to play someone else.
 




Bayfieldgopher said:
Has the NCAA ever considered allowing a real spring game or controlled scrimmage? Gophers versus Iowa State for instance.

It would allow the coaches and players to go against someone other than their teammates and also be an indicator of how much progress the team has made during Spring ball.

Just a thought even though I realize it probably will never happen.
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Didn't Nick Saban float this idea a year or so ago?
 

So who do you play?

Fans will want to win... but generally during the spring game you're running plays for practice's sake and running out guys who you otherwise might not play ....
 

I think it should be our team split in half playing each other like it was this past Saturday, but if like to see it be even more like an actual game. With kickoffs and punting and time outs and all that stuff. Basically a full blown regular game, except the two teams are just the two halves of our team.
 

This would be great for the fans and horrible for the coaches. They would hate it.
 



Scrimmage against a team out of your conference, split the teams in two and have games at both universities!
 




From Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze:

“I think we got more out of practicing today than we would have playing a spring game, but I will say again that I’m a proponent of playing another school at the end of each other’s spring practice, charge $5 and give every bit of the money after the travel team gets their expenses paid to a charity of choice,” Freeze said. "I think that we would all get a lot out of that and you can play one on ones, twos on twos, threes on threes and just get a lot done.”

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People realize the game is free now and we can't get 10,000 people. Why would anyone pay or travel to see 3rd string walk-ons play?


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