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Posted on 3/4/25 at 7:55 am to CharlotteSooner
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Spring games are pointless.
I like them. For one, you get a bonus football "game" featuring your favorite team during the dead season. For another, they do usually provide an early glimpse of any promise or fissures regarding players and squads. Speaking just as an LSU fan, the spring games have generated great excitement regading a few key players to watch for the upcoming season as well as squad improvements or deficits. In a few instances, the games cut straight through coach speak BS to reveal some real problems on offense, defense, and special teams.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 7:56 am to Auburn80
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Will there be a Running of the Sooner Gumps?
Happens every year, all over the state, starting around May.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 7:56 am to jonnyanony
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It was one of the few low stakes fun things done entirely for the fans.
Kids got to meet players, have a nice spring afternoon, maybe get some autographs. Little ones often got to watch football before they'd be able to handle a full game with fighting/screaming drunk adults.
It was a really good thing for fans and families. Yet another piece of college football flushed down the toilet.
More great points. A great family day to take kids. Kids who will be fans as they grow up and have those fond memories with parents. Like said its a perfect time to expose kids.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 8:06 am to jonnyanony
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It was one of the few low stakes fun things done entirely for the fans.
Kids got to meet players, have a nice spring afternoon, maybe get some autographs. Little ones often got to watch football before they'd be able to handle a full game with fighting/screaming drunk adults.
It was a really good thing for fans and families. Yet another piece of college football flushed down the toilet.
I understand that. I've been too many. We'll still have meet-n-greets and activities for the fans. I'm saying the scrimmage itself is pretty much pointless. It's just an informal exhibition where they pit every portion of the depth chart against each other in a controlled scrimmage and you can't really glean anything from what you're seeing.
I'd rather they take that time to practice, install packages, and stay healthy for fall camp, especially after the injury shite-show we had last year, which began in spring camp. Not that a lack of spring game guarantees no injuries because it doesn't. But I never got enough out of the spring game to make it worth the risk. It just served to breakup the long wait between seasons.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 8:12 am to OU Guy
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Sooner legend:
Gerald McCoy
@Geraldini93
I couldn't really care less about anything the players have to say after they pushed for all the changes and have taken the control away from the schools. My hope is that we will start over with real college students someday soon. I don't like being a farm system for the pro's.
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Posted on 3/4/25 at 10:54 am to OU Guy
Sorry, but there's almost no benefit to your team actually playing a spring game and it's an opportunity for players to get hurt.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:02 am to CharlotteSooner
No one got hurt last year spring game
No one got poached last year spring game
Many new fans go as its not sold out. Easier to navigate in/out and enjoy a game with less crowds yet enough to make new friends.
Its a fan based sport.
If we ever get to guaranteed contracts that eliminates worry too. But once you run fans off its harder to get them back later on if you bring it back.
Go read all the replies in this tweet and 90%+ are against the change
No one got poached last year spring game
Many new fans go as its not sold out. Easier to navigate in/out and enjoy a game with less crowds yet enough to make new friends.
Its a fan based sport.
If we ever get to guaranteed contracts that eliminates worry too. But once you run fans off its harder to get them back later on if you bring it back.
Go read all the replies in this tweet and 90%+ are against the change
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Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:06 am to OU Guy
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No one got hurt last year spring game
Consider yourself lucky. There was a run in the early 2010s where Ole Miss had their best defensive player tear an ACL either in the spring game or in the week of practice leading up to it. Happened 3 years in a row.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:06 am to CharlotteSooner
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Spring games are pointless.
Thank you.
Everybody just calm down, shite the post season is carrying us into deep January now. Something has to go. And yes, the Portal is a big factor too, but it is what it is.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:09 am to OU Guy
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:16 am to OU Guy
You have unlimited immediate transfers and open tampering running rampant. Programs are going to be far more closer off as a result. Fix those other problems to fix the consequences.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:19 am to bigDgator
quote:While I agree, there is absolutely no incentive for the NFL to develop a real farm system.
My hope is that we will start over with real college students someday soon. I don't like being a farm system for the pro's.
We got what we got until then.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:21 am to OU Guy
Personally, I can't remember the last time I watched a spring game. I'll just read the sunshine Luicci pumps out from spring practices and beleive the opposite. Just saved three hours.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 11:28 am to Chingon Ag
I always liked seeing the walk-ons play, and hopefully do something exciting. It it all likelihood will be the highlight of this kid's college career short of a tackle on special teams.
A walk-on isn't exactly going to be doing anything memorable during Spring combine. "You see that kid from Acworth run a 4.7 40?" No one is going to be saying that shite when there are dudes posting pro-like numbers.
I think this hurts those kids and their families the most.
A walk-on isn't exactly going to be doing anything memorable during Spring combine. "You see that kid from Acworth run a 4.7 40?" No one is going to be saying that shite when there are dudes posting pro-like numbers.
I think this hurts those kids and their families the most.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 12:31 pm to Quicksilver
It is counted as a practice. All teams have scrimmages. Spring games are one of the scrimmages. Unless practices in pads or scrimmages are cancelled, the spring games are NOT an ADDED chance for injury.
Cancel all spring practice and have no injuries - probably not win as many games, but all the injuries will be in fall camp....
Cancel all spring practice and have no injuries - probably not win as many games, but all the injuries will be in fall camp....
Posted on 3/4/25 at 12:40 pm to Chingon Ag
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I'll just read the sunshine Luicci pumps out from spring practices
But thats another point. Part of keeping fans engaged is keeping them excited. Beat writers who use social media a lot these days do just that with the spring game.
It can also help recruiting as glowing reports emanate from the game. Its a positive spin.
Surprised more are not up on arms about this. Taking away more of the sport. Its the constant chipping away at traditions. And eventually they will wear flags. And some will ask how it happened. Same people who didn’t care and watched it happen.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 12:52 pm to OU Guy
Changing up everything worked great for Nascar, I don't know why people are worried.
I would say let em frick everything up so people will quit watching and it can go back the way it use to be. But what I've learned after watching Nascar frick up like this for 20 years is that they will only try new gimmicks rather than going back to their roots.
Basically, we're fricked. Enjoy your new NFL to cater to the top 1%.
I would say let em frick everything up so people will quit watching and it can go back the way it use to be. But what I've learned after watching Nascar frick up like this for 20 years is that they will only try new gimmicks rather than going back to their roots.
Basically, we're fricked. Enjoy your new NFL to cater to the top 1%.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 12:57 pm to Cush Creekmont
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All we PAYING FANS want is to watch one damn scrimmage during spring. The paranoid coaches that think every other team will learn something or grab their players due to one scrimmage being seen should look in the mirror because that is where their team's lack of performance stems from!
with the transfer portal being what it has become, why would you want to put on a spring game so opponents can scout your backups?
I have no problem with treating all of spring practice like an NFL training camp and doing away with spring games. The fans will be ok. Most don't watch the spring games regardless.
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:00 pm to FearlessFreep
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2) transfer portal opens only once a year, right after the CFP Championship
3) portal closes march 1st
it's a good idea in theory but the courts would never let it happen. The same arguments will be made that have already been made: if a normal college student can transfer to another school after the end of a semester, why are we only affording college athletes that opportunity once a year? TBH, in my opinion, it is more likely they'll be no limits and no portal windows than a scenario where we only have one portal window from December-March
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