re: Spring football

Scrimmages against other schools would be an interesting idea. Just like Pre Season NFL or MLB, they won't mean anything, as in nobody cared that the Giants beat the Patriots in week 4 of the preseason last year.

I think some coaches might like it, some might not. Some coaches will hold their best players out of the game for fear of injury, some might restrict the players to a quarter or half.

They have a preseason in the NFL to find out who's going to make the final roster, or who could add value on a practice team or possible future contract. They already have their rosters set for college, so the scrimmages would be more about who can play already against college competition. They could sell tickets for interschool scrimmages, people will buy them, so there is money in the idea. However, I don't see a lot of great, all-out matchups, b/c I think most coaches are going to protect their players health in the spring. We'd see a lot of 2nd and 3rd stringers playing each other, IMO.

As far as the 7on7, who's going to coach them and how is that going to chance the NCAA rule restricting the contact or permissible hours of contact a coach can have with players in the offseason? 7on7 won't sell as many tickets either as actual scrimmages.

I don't really know what is broken with current spring football, so I don't think there really needs to be any changes. However, if they start having scrimmages b/w schools, I'd pay to go watch them still.