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STILLWATER — Mike Gundy is a fan of Bedlam in April, and he’s not talking about softball.
The Oklahoma State football coach pitched the idea that the Cowboys should pair up with OU for a spring scrimmage rather than the fan showcase type of events that programs are moving toward in spring. The Cowboys are set to host theirs April 19.
“Honestly for us, we should do a home-and-home with OU in the spring,” Gundy said Tuesday as his team was beginning its first practice of spring ball. “They should come here on the 19th and we should go down there and play a home-and-home in the spring with them. Charge 25 bucks a head. They can use it for NIL, we can use it for NIL.
“If they don’t want to do two in one year, we can do it here this year, do it there next year and split the gate.”
Many college football coaches have begun to follow the path set by Gundy in veering away from traditional spring scrimmages as a fan spectacle. The Cowboys instead plan to hold a more typical practice inside Boone Pickens Stadium.
And now, Colorado coach Deion Sanders is seeking permission to hold joint practices and a scrimmage with Syracuse this spring.
Gundy likes the idea.
“We get tired of practicing against each other,” Gundy said. “It’s not gonna be a live game. I don’t know what (OU coach Brent) Venables would say, but I would be concerned with making it live because of injury. But nobody really has live scrimmages anymore, so you make it a full thud like we’re doing and practice against them, like they do in the NFL.”
OSU hasn’t hosted a spring game the past two years while Boone Pickens Stadium was undergoing major seating upgrades. However, before that, Gundy had begun altering the format of the spring finale to…
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