Spring scrimmage vs. FCS club?
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Personally, I don't see a lot of upside to doing this.
It might be difficult to convince a Mo Valley team to take some time off during their eight-game, nine-week schedule that begins on Feb. 19 and ends on April 17, with the top two or three teams headed to the 16-team (down from 24) FCS playoffs that will run from April 24 through May.
It would be easier to convince an FCS program such as Drake, which plays a five-game slate starting in mid-March and ending on April 17, to tack on a game after that in Memorial Stadium. Other Pioneer League teams, FCS independents and HBCUs — all of which are not as focused on the playoffs as the MVC, Colonial and others — would probably be more likely to do something like that.
It would be easier to convince an FCS program such as Drake, which plays a five-game slate starting in mid-March and ending on April 17, to tack on a game after that in Memorial Stadium. Other Pioneer League teams, FCS independents and HBCUs — all of which are not as focused on the playoffs as the MVC, Colonial and others — would probably be more likely to do something like that.
Instead of a traditional red-white spring game, possibly, but it does open the coaching staff to a lot of unnecessary questions if it's competitive.
I'm not even looking at it that way, but your right on that too. I just felt the old spring formula is best where you have more good on good and trying to figure out what your own team will look like for the next year and such.
I think there’s tremendous value of facing another opponent. Especially coming off from a Covid year where we had a million practices and only played 8 games. I also feel like every year the players claim they are tired of facing each other.
I hope we can make it happen.
I hope we can make it happen.
Losing to an FCS school in your spring game certainly is not a good look and would not lead to any positive talk of the team leading into year 4.
Leave it up to the players, they are the ones seeing the opposite jersey everyday. What better way to evaluate talent and progress than with live fire exercises...
Issue I would have is less reps for all players versus just 1's and 2's
That is why I love watching the spring scrimmage. I get to see how good our young players are. It's also a perk for the walkon's & younger players to get to play in front of family and a crowd.
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I’d rather see the 1 and 3rd string offense against the 1 and 3rd string defense, better way in evaluate all the players in the program...
Playing a FCS program isn’t the way to go for a spring game..
Playing a FCS program isn’t the way to go for a spring game..
one of the attractions of the spring scrimmage is letting your entire depth chart get on the field in front of live audience. IF you play another school you'll have half as many guys get snaps and might hinder you ability to see what a lots of kids can do in a game like situation. I don't care for the idea.
In a closed scrimmage setting, how is that not possible? They aren't keeping score, so what does it matter?
Basketball teams do it every year.
Don’t compare Football to Basketball the numbers don’t compute.
As it is, young players might only get a series or a few snaps in spring scrimmages. We need as many reps as we can get for those young guys we are going to depend on next fall and scrimmaging somebody other than ourselves cuts the number of potential plays in half for those guys. Basketball is an entirely different deal than the Husker football spring scrimmage. For one thing, you would have opposition players that are going to be tough to tell, "the QB has a green jersey on". You can't drill him. ONE of the things a coach want's to do with that spring "game" is to not incur any unnecessary injuries. Playing an FCS or D2 school might open us up for some kid trying to make a name for himself taking a cheap shot at one of our impact players. I think it's a bad idea. JMO.
Yeah, it appears the FCS schools get a ton of practices while FBS are limited to 15 practices?
I don’t think the players should vote on anything ever again. Too many guys can have a vote when they are going to transfer anyway.
it was really a cop out by Frost, he set the tone, then let his boy take the blame for it.
