OT - UC's Tuberville: College football needs exhibition games

[huskymedic]

You may need to google "UC's Tuberville: College football needs exhibition games" to get beyond paywall (it appears intermittently).

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/uca...ege-football-needs-exhibition-games/31732785/

Interesting thoughts though.

>>Tommy Tuberville did not hesitate Friday when asked whether college football should have preseason exhibition games, as the National Football League does. "We should have," the University of Cincinnati head coach said, after a Bearcats practice at their Higher Ground camp here. "There's no reason that we should not have probably a spring game that's an exhibition game, and at least a scrimmage against another team, to kind of tell where you're at. I think it would really enhance what we do."<<

>>College basketball teams have played exhibition games for decades. College football teams just scrimmage themselves in preseason. "It hasn't been pushed hard enough," Tuberville said. "Basketball is so far ahead of football in terms of working things out. The NCAA and the rules committee, they've way bypassed us. We're kind of three or four years behind. Now we can work with our players in the summer, meet with them, anyway. (Basketball has) been doing that for a couple years. I guess they do a better job with their union than we do."<<

>>Why no exhibition games for football? "I think they're scared of injuries," Tuberville said. "It's basically an uneducated decision. We don't educate them enough. We would be able to be much better protected, in terms of injuries, if we played against somebody else. If we went the speed of the game with somebody else, just for a few plays other than all of a sudden we just throw them out there and you know, 'Here we go.' "There's a reason the NFL does it. Of course, a little bit of theirs is money. But you could charge. You could charge for a scrimmage. For instance, we could do home and home every year, maybe in the springtime go to Indiana and the next year in the fall they come here, you know, do a scrimmage. The cost would even out."<<

There's more but that's this gist of it...

 

[Drew]

You may need to google "UC's Tuberville: College football needs exhibition games" to get beyond paywall (it appears intermittently).

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/uca...ege-football-needs-exhibition-games/31732785/

Interesting thoughts though.

>>Tommy Tuberville did not hesitate Friday when asked whether college football should have preseason exhibition games, as the National Football League does. "We should have," the University of Cincinnati head coach said, after a Bearcats practice at their Higher Ground camp here. "There's no reason that we should not have probably a spring game that's an exhibition game, and at least a scrimmage against another team, to kind of tell where you're at. I think it would really enhance what we do."<<

>>College basketball teams have played exhibition games for decades. College football teams just scrimmage themselves in preseason. "It hasn't been pushed hard enough," Tuberville said. "Basketball is so far ahead of football in terms of working things out. The NCAA and the rules committee, they've way bypassed us. We're kind of three or four years behind. Now we can work with our players in the summer, meet with them, anyway. (Basketball has) been doing that for a couple years. I guess they do a better job with their union than we do."<<

>>Why no exhibition games for football? "I think they're scared of injuries," Tuberville said. "It's basically an uneducated decision. We don't educate them enough. We would be able to be much better protected, in terms of injuries, if we played against somebody else. If we went the speed of the game with somebody else, just for a few plays other than all of a sudden we just throw them out there and you know, 'Here we go.' "There's a reason the NFL does it. Of course, a little bit of theirs is money. But you could charge. You could charge for a scrimmage. For instance, we could do home and home every year, maybe in the springtime go to Indiana and the next year in the fall they come here, you know, do a scrimmage. The cost would even out."<<

There's more but that's this gist of it...

Agree with this wholeheartedly. This also would be a great way to pay the FCS schools, use it as the pre-season or exhibition game and then in season play only FBS teams. Even if it was a 7 on 7 it would help