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College football has to adjust to the new realities of the industry. From NIL to the transfer portal to the recruiting landscape to the coaching carousel to the College Football Playoff’s 12-team format, college football has to bring itself into the modern age and adapt. This is not 1975. This is not 1995. Heck, it isn’t even 2018. In just the last seven years, forget about the last 77 years or 37 years, we have seen seismic change in the sport. On so many levels, college football requires an updated way of proceeding. Spring practice — spring ball — is just one of the topics the sport has to handle in a better way. USA TODAY Sports columnist Matt Hayes has some ideas:
“Think about this concept: Ohio State just completed five months of training camp and played 16 games to win the national championship, and spring practice will begin in less than two months. That’s 15 practices, including a spring game, a little more than eight weeks after a grueling 20-week run of the most physically damaging sport on the planet.”
Hayes adds:
“Why run away from chain of causation now? Why, after players can earn millions before taking a snap of college football, after universities are expanding the postseason and adding games and preparing to ignite a straight pay for play system on July 1, would college football hold so tightly to archaic player development ideals that no longer fit?”
You can judge for yourself. We think Mr. Hayes definitely makes a strong point.
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: One college football columnist says spring ball needs to go away
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/usa-today-sports-columnist-says-173720388.html
Author : Trojans Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-07 17:37:00
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