College Jamborees? : The new spring football
What comes to mind when one thinks of spring?
Flowers blooming, pollen pollinating, temperature rising, and football?
Yep, spring practice has begun for many schools. This is a time for teams to coach, and really work on basics, and to get younger players some more attention for development. This is the case with South Carolina. For Clemson, it is all that plus learning new schemes with the coaching change. I guess USC falls under that category too.
And I know we are in football country, where college ball is king, but I am just not that into spring, and more precisely, the spring games.
I don't get how so many people could get into a glorified scrimmage. You really have no idea how good your team is by watching and analyzing a spring game. What good does it do for your guys to play your same guys, who schemes they all know? Did I mention there is that added risk of players getting hurt?
Sure, you can have excitement with trick plays and learn some new faces, but it really isn't worth it.
Now, what I am a fan of is high school jamborees. This is where different teams from an area (or county) play each other for a quarter, then two other teams take the field for a quarter, then those four teams swap and play another quarter.
This is fun to watch in high school, and I believe the NCAA should implement jamborees for teams, and it doesn't even have to be against conference rivals. Say you have South Carolina and Clemson hosting jamborees...we can call them the Carolina Classic and the Tiger Cup. USC would obviously host at Williams-Brice, and Clemson would host at Death Valley.
Then, each school would invite small colleges from D1-AA from the surrounding states of the Carolinas and Georgia. Let's say Carolina invites Coastal Carolina and Georgia Southern, while Clemson invites Furman and Appalachian State.
What would happen next is that both USC and Clemson would play four quarters, facing a team per half. They would do this because the smaller schools don't have as many players to burn.
This would give bigger schools an idea of where they are fundamentally, while the smaller schools not only pocket some nice cash, but also get a chance to see where their players are.
And to make it interesting, the host school would decide after the game who gets a trophy on they feel who played them the best, adding some extra bragging rights to the small schools.
This seems much more exciting to me instead of watching a scrimmage game.
Flowers blooming, pollen pollinating, temperature rising, and football?
Yep, spring practice has begun for many schools. This is a time for teams to coach, and really work on basics, and to get younger players some more attention for development. This is the case with South Carolina. For Clemson, it is all that plus learning new schemes with the coaching change. I guess USC falls under that category too.
And I know we are in football country, where college ball is king, but I am just not that into spring, and more precisely, the spring games.
I don't get how so many people could get into a glorified scrimmage. You really have no idea how good your team is by watching and analyzing a spring game. What good does it do for your guys to play your same guys, who schemes they all know? Did I mention there is that added risk of players getting hurt?
Sure, you can have excitement with trick plays and learn some new faces, but it really isn't worth it.
Now, what I am a fan of is high school jamborees. This is where different teams from an area (or county) play each other for a quarter, then two other teams take the field for a quarter, then those four teams swap and play another quarter.
This is fun to watch in high school, and I believe the NCAA should implement jamborees for teams, and it doesn't even have to be against conference rivals. Say you have South Carolina and Clemson hosting jamborees...we can call them the Carolina Classic and the Tiger Cup. USC would obviously host at Williams-Brice, and Clemson would host at Death Valley.
Then, each school would invite small colleges from D1-AA from the surrounding states of the Carolinas and Georgia. Let's say Carolina invites Coastal Carolina and Georgia Southern, while Clemson invites Furman and Appalachian State.
What would happen next is that both USC and Clemson would play four quarters, facing a team per half. They would do this because the smaller schools don't have as many players to burn.
This would give bigger schools an idea of where they are fundamentally, while the smaller schools not only pocket some nice cash, but also get a chance to see where their players are.
And to make it interesting, the host school would decide after the game who gets a trophy on they feel who played them the best, adding some extra bragging rights to the small schools.
This seems much more exciting to me instead of watching a scrimmage game.
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