Does Anybody Else Have A problem With the Current O&W Game Format?

[DonDiego]

I know a lot of people like the whole Barnum & Bailey Midway barker set-up, but I kind of miss the good old traditional spring game. I noticed LSU played right after us and I saw they had ones against ones and twos against twos with referees and a typical game set-up. Anybody else miss that format?

 

[Coug]

I've really grown to like Jones' use of the mic to be honest. It makes it more personal to the crowd because someone is actually speaking to them and getting them involved. Some of those other spring games are just bland and you have to listen to the SEC announcers screw up everyone's name like they did today. As for the 1's and 2's setup that's completely on the HC. He gets to decide that aspect.

Give me Maria Taylor any day over those dorks we had announcing today.

 

[1truevol]

Have you not followed this year's spring practice?? We have 20 plus players..many of which are starters...out due to injury or rehabing from surgeries. This has been the planned format for weeks due to these injuries/rehabs and to hopefully get through this spring without any additional injuries. Not being a smarts$$..but that does matter!

 

[C1500]

Circle of life is the best part to me. I like the old style set up, but I go to just enjoy Neyland and sing to Rocky Top. Spring games will never be as good to me as a real game. Its like watching the pro bowl its just for show and trying not to get guys hurt.

I wasnt a fan of the punting comp. but it was free and its always fun to be with fellow fans.

 

[Iam4utalways]

No inuries, I'm fine with it.

Tampa here we come!

Jump higher Vols.

 

[DonDiego]

Have you not followed this year's spring practice?? We have 20 plus players..many of which are starters...out due to injury or rehabing from surgeries. This has been the planned format for weeks due to these injuries/rehabs and to hopefully get through this spring without any additional injuries. Not being a smarts$$..but that does matter!

Well maybe you're not trying to be a smarta$$, maybe it just comes natural. Have you been unconscious the last two years? This 'planned format' isn't new to this year.

 

[volinbham]

watched on TV; haven't been to one since the record setting one in the 80's and I may or may not have been on mushrooms then.

that said, I found it entertaining and like the idea of O vs D with points for both.

 

[DonDiego]

watched on TV; haven't been to one since the record setting one in the 80's and I may or may not have been on mushrooms then.

that said, I found it entertaining and like the idea of O vs D with points for both.

Ha, ha!

 

[VolnJC]

I like both..best part for me is getting to go down on the field and sitting in a different section every quarter

 

[1truevol]

Well maybe you're not trying to be a smarta$$, maybe it just comes natural. Have you been unconscious the last two years? This 'planned format' isn't new to this year.

Yes....fully conscious and aware that it was this way last year....and it was for the same reasons!

 

[GBO97]

Our roster is too banged up for it to be practical to split into two separate teams with their own offenses and defenses. In that case, offense vs defense just makes more sense, and obviously a modified scoring system is necessary for that. Ideally I would like to have the actual game itself be more traditional with normal scoring instead of some 93-85 type deal, but I like having Butch on the PA, and I also like the drills, skills tests, one on ones, etc.

 

[themicah85]

It's gimmicky but at the same time we seem to drop players like flies when they hit each other so no complaints on that part. In the traditional ones versus the twos you never really leave satisfied because if one does good you want to blame the other, it's practice at the end of the day, more entertainment than anything else. I recently moved to Dallas and got to meet a lot of people in the Dallas-Fort Worth Tennessee Alumni Association today at the viewing party so that was really cool too I enjoyed it overall.

 

[golf437]

I know a lot of people like the whole Barnum & Bailey Midway barker set-up, but I kind of miss the good old traditional spring game. I noticed LSU played right after us and I saw they had ones against ones and twos against twos with referees and a typical game set-up. Anybody else miss that format?

No.

 

[TNnative]

Have you not followed this year's spring practice?? We have 20 plus players..many of which are starters...out due to injury or rehabing from surgeries. This has been the planned format for weeks due to these injuries/rehabs and to hopefully get through this spring without any additional injuries. Not being a smarts$$..but that does matter!

And even if you set the injuries aside, the format puts the offense on one team and the defense on the other. Rather than dividing them up for the spring game, they keep working together as units. I feel that might be far more important than having a real game format months before the season starts.

Of course, I think another reason for doing it this way is it is the one day of the year Butch gets time and opportunity to connect with fans. In a regular game format, he would not be doing as much of it.

Let's go through a checklist. Is the team improving every year so far? Check.

Are plenty of fans showing up and enjoying it? Check.

If you didn't have this, would the OP find something else to complain about? Check.

I say Let it Ride.

 

[feathersax]

So-called "spring games" have always been pretty boring & something coaches would rather skip. It's all for the fans, so why not spice things up? CBJ, as an announcer said yesterday, "enjoys the microphone" & approaches the event like a carnival barker. We see skills magnified in a different manner than game days.
GO BIG ORANGE! :hi:

 

[ZZ13]

In my day as an undergrad, the spring game was an actual game. Kickoffs, punts, 1st through 4th down, officials, time clock. The works. I lost track of the evolution process into what it is now (which I have no idea what it is since I haven't been to an O&W game since spring, 1979).

 

[Boca Vol]

Spring games are generally boring anyway. I sort of like the format...switching it up from a scrimmage, to 1 on 1 work, to Circle of Life on the 50.

It's a 2 hour fanfest. Show the fans some football but please for the love of Pete, don't get anyone injured.

 

[volnal]

I know a lot of people like the whole Barnum & Bailey Midway barker set-up, but I kind of miss the good old traditional spring game. I noticed LSU played right after us and I saw they had ones against ones and twos against twos with referees and a typical game set-up. Anybody else miss that format?

OK, going to be civil here, you do realize that the injury list dictated how the spring game would play out right? Oh wait, you didn't! Calm down. come back from the ledge and let CBJ handle this buddy! In Butch We Trust!!!!!!!

 

[VolsFan-TX]

I know a lot of people like the whole Barnum & Bailey Midway barker set-up, but I kind of miss the good old traditional spring game. I noticed LSU played right after us and I saw they had ones against ones and twos against twos with referees and a typical game set-up. Anybody else miss that format?

LSU started with a circle of life type setup before moving into the simulated game format. I know it is not related to the format, but it was interesting to see how few fans showed up for LSU.

I prefer any format that minimizes injury risks and provides some entertainment for the fans. I like the non-game aspect as it allows the players to demonstrate different skills and also allows for a little individualism.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

This is the first year my wife has enjoyed the Spring event/game. I think it is better than the old format. The final decision for you is to attend or not attend, or don't watch it on tv. It appears that most seem to like it. A reported 67,000 attended and I believe as many or more will attend next Spring.

 

[LWSVOL]

I know a lot of people like the whole Barnum & Bailey Midway barker set-up, but I kind of miss the good old traditional spring game. I noticed LSU played right after us and I saw they had ones against ones and twos against twos with referees and a typical game set-up. Anybody else miss that format?

not entertaining at all. its not even a good practice which you can see up close on Haslam Field. Not worth the trip in my opinion

 

[Vol logic]

not entertaining at all. its not even a good practice which you can see up close on Haslam Field. Not worth the trip in my opinion

Are you talking about the current format? If so I agree. I also think the d line gets totally screwed in the circle of life drill as they are taught to get off that block. Give those guys a pylon to knock over and then see what happens.

 

[joevol33]

I've really grown to like Jones' use of the mic to be honest. It makes it more personal to the crowd because someone is actually speaking to them and getting them involved. Some of those other spring games are just bland and you have to listen to the SEC announcers screw up everyone's name like they did today. As for the 1's and 2's setup that's completely on the HC. He gets to decide that aspect.

Give me Maria Taylor any day over those dorks we had announcing today.

Maria Taylor is mine Coug, back off!

 

[malinoisvol]

Spring games are generally boring anyway. I sort of like the format...switching it up from a scrimmage, to 1 on 1 work, to Circle of Life on the 50.

It's a 2 hour fanfest. Show the fans some football but please for the love of Pete, don't get anyone injured.

Ah Mang!

 

[TechnoVol]

not entertaining at all. its not even a good practice which you can see up close on Haslam Field. Not worth the trip in my opinion

Not everyone has the ability/privilege to go watch practice on Haslam Field like you do. Most of the rest of us enjoyed the O&W "Game" for what it was.