Joey McGuire after three days of Texas Tech football spring practice
Texas Tech football’s Joey McGuire on March Madness, early spring practice standouts, Deion Sanders’ joint practice push, young DEs, QB Mitch Griffis
Joey McGuire made it clear last week he’s on board with Deion Sanders’ push for college football teams to conduct off-season joint practices, or even a spring game, against other schools.
The Texas Tech football coach said the Red Raiders would be a willing dance partner with Colorado. And while we’re on the subject, McGuire says the offer goes for traditional regional rivals, too.
“I think it’d be good to have, at the very least, have a joint practice, whether it’s (with) A&M or Texas or OU, whether we’re traveling,” McGuire said Wednesday.
“I heard (Oklahoma State coach) Mike Gundy talk about Bedlam (games against Oklahoma) and do it twice. I don’t know if I want to do it twice — he had a great idea — but I do think you could do it every year, like if we went to College Station this year and they (Texas A&M) came to us next year and had a day where you had a couple of practices against each other, I think it’d be great.”
NCAA rules currently don’t allow FBS teams to conduct spring practices or spring games against one another.
McGuire acknowledged, “This is something that’s totally out of the box whenever it comes to college football, which, everything in college football the last couple of years has been out of the box.”
Speaking Tuesday to local reporters in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Gundy pitched the idea of Oklahoma State and Oklahoma doing a home-and-home setup in spring football.
“Charge 25 bucks a head,” Gundy said,…
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