Spring Games against other teams

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Jasongivm6

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Anyone have any comments about Bobby Bowden and Rodney Allison's idea of having a spring game against other schools?
 
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Jasongivm6 said:
Anyone have any comments about Bobby Bowden and Rodney Allison's idea of having a spring game against other schools?
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How ignorant would a coach look when he gets a key player injured in a "spring game" against another school? It's bad enough when it happens against your own guys.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
How ignorant would a coach look when he gets a key player injured in a "spring game" against another school? It's bad enough when it happens against your own guys.
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I think it would be worse getting a key player injured by your own guys.
 
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Those guys have an equal chance of getting hurt by their own team as they do by another. I don't see why this wouldn't be an option. Maybe even a 4-game schedule with scrimmage rules?
 
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The fans would love it, but when a team's star player gets injured the coach would look stupid.
 
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milohimself said:
Those guys have an equal chance of getting hurt by their own team as they do by another. I don't see why this wouldn't be an option. Maybe even a 4-game schedule with scrimmage rules?
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They were speaking of keeping the scrimmage rules, aka QB's wear green jerseys, limit the stars to an x amount of plays, etc. Let the 2nd, 3rd and nth teamers play against another team's 2nd, 3rd, and nth teamers to be able to judge some things some more. You can't really tell how good a team's offense or defense is coming along if they're scrimmaging each other every week. Let them go up against a completely different team.
 
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milohimself said:
Those guys have an equal chance of getting hurt by their own team as they do by another.
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I disagree, you are much more likely to lay out some guy you don't know (and maybe don't like) than a guy on your own team.
 
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Jasongivm6 said:
We're not talking about getting "laid" by another team, droski.:p :p :p
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Maybe I'm old school but to lay out an opposing player means to clean his clock, knock him into next week or hit him so hard he'll have a hard time remembering where he is or how he got there. :whistling:
 
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Bad idea: Teams would get plays from the other team before they even play for real. And many players would get injured some out for the year. These games would be ok if they were played against teams not on the regular season schedule.
 
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gamecocks=beasts said:
Bad idea: Teams would get plays from the other team before they even play for real. And many players would get injured some out for the year. These games would be ok if they were played against teams not on the regular season schedule.
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I'm sorry, but that has to be the most contradictory post I've ever seen.
 
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Jasongivm6 said:
Anyone have any comments about Bobby Bowden and Rodney Allison's idea of having a spring game against other schools?
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Yes, that idea is further proof that Bowden should have been sent to Shady Acres five years ago. One of the two or three stupidest ideas I've heard in college athletics in the last decade.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yes, that idea is further proof that Bowden should have been sent to Shady Acres five years ago. One of the two or three stupidest ideas I've heard in college athletics in the last decade.
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preseason football is so fantastic in the pros, i see why we would want in college football.
 
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so would UT pay $200K to a team like Wyoming to travel all the way to Knoxville in early spring to play a game that has no relevance?

I didn't think so...
 
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FWIW, they could the charge a small admission and fill a decent number of seats. The games would be fun, but I do see the cons. I think it would be great until Vols started getting hurt.
 
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