No spring game. Your thoughts?

[tusks_n_raider]

So have we seen our last A-Day game? Will there be a huge outcry over this year and DeBoer bows to tradition and brings it back?

Or should we just accept that spring games are going to be tossed on the scrapyard along with the leather helmets and single platoon football?

Yeah the final A-Day as we know/knew it was 2023.

I don’t think anyone will complain about it being cancelled.

Only 5,000 people showed up so they might as well just cancel it.

Plus there is also the context that it’s not even televised anymore and STILL only 5k fans went.

Interest is at an All-Time low.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

If a school wants to end the spring game because the purpose is no longer being accomplished, or they've come up with a better format that helps the players and team more, fine. I'm for it. But to cancel a spring game because of the fear of transfers and other teams seeing their players is ridiculous. The teams already know which players you have, they recruited them before they decided to sign. They already know who they would want and wouldn't want off the team. The spring game isn't going to give the team any more exposure for transfers than it already has. Again, all these coaches already know who is on your team and who'd they want from your team before a spring game is even played.

This makes playing a out of conference game seem a little more reasonable. We could play teams like JAX STATE, UAB ect...