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re: Spring games are pointless
Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:31 am to Cockopotamus
Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:31 am to Cockopotamus
The players and fans enjoy them. It's almost 5 months until the start of the season, so I'm glad we get a football fix, albeit "pointless".
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Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:01 am to AUsteriskPride
Spring games are for three things. In order they are:
1. A reward for the players for the culmination of spring training. Something for them to look forward to in playing at the stadium in a fun game type scrimmage in front of the fans. Spring training is important from an evaluation and fundamentals standpoint. Spring training practices are often the toughest a player goes through. They involve a ton of full speed contact, a LOT more than during the season or fall camp because injury risk is not as big a concern and spring ball is about fundamentals, hitting each other and competition. The players need a reward and something to look forward to.
2. The fans. It gives them some football to talk about and sorta a game to watch and go to if they want. When I was a kid, my family and I went to every spring game every year. It was a lot of fun. My parents still have pictures of me from when I was as young as 4 years old on the field with different players at the spring game. One is with Bo Jackson which I was too young to remember, but love the picture.
3. It is a recruiting tool. This is especially true with AU and Bama where the fan turnout is big and we see which recruits decide to go where that weekend.
1. A reward for the players for the culmination of spring training. Something for them to look forward to in playing at the stadium in a fun game type scrimmage in front of the fans. Spring training is important from an evaluation and fundamentals standpoint. Spring training practices are often the toughest a player goes through. They involve a ton of full speed contact, a LOT more than during the season or fall camp because injury risk is not as big a concern and spring ball is about fundamentals, hitting each other and competition. The players need a reward and something to look forward to.
2. The fans. It gives them some football to talk about and sorta a game to watch and go to if they want. When I was a kid, my family and I went to every spring game every year. It was a lot of fun. My parents still have pictures of me from when I was as young as 4 years old on the field with different players at the spring game. One is with Bo Jackson which I was too young to remember, but love the picture.
3. It is a recruiting tool. This is especially true with AU and Bama where the fan turnout is big and we see which recruits decide to go where that weekend.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:16 am to AUsteriskPride
Spring games are NOT pointless. Just ask Nick Saban,the Alabama players and the recruits that were there when we filled the house with 92,000 plus for Saban's first ADay.
All practices at Bama are pretty much closed so you can get a look at players in a simulated game and get a little out of it. Think Blake Sims won't be going all out and every eye in the place won't be on him?
All practices at Bama are pretty much closed so you can get a look at players in a simulated game and get a little out of it. Think Blake Sims won't be going all out and every eye in the place won't be on him?
Posted on 4/13/14 at 12:53 pm to AUsteriskPride
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The players and fans enjoy them. It's almost 5 months until the start of the season, so I'm glad we get a football fix, albeit "pointless".
This.
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