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Colorado and Syracuse won’t scrimmage together this spring, after all.
Despite the pitch from Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders and the quick social media acceptance from Orange coach Fran Brown, the two sides were denied a waiver for a joint spring game, the Division I FBS oversight committee announced Friday.
Denying a joint scrimmage is a blow to spring football, which has otherwise become nerfed in importance nationally as major schools cancel their games with coaches hoping to make it through spring without a major injuries and transfer defections.
The NCAA’s explanation mostly focused on timing. Most schools already planned their spring practice schedule and didn’t have the opportunity to match Colorado. The Buffaloes would have a competitive advantage in recruiting for their spring game that other schools would lack. The NCAA also brought up academic concerns, which is important but always funny reasoning in the 2025 revenue sharing and NIL landscape.
Those are all workable roadblocks into the future, and the oversight committee said as much in a memo obtained by The Athletic.
“The committee agreed to discuss, during a future meeting, a concept that could permit joint practices.”
There seems to be growing support for the idea.
Houston coach Willie Fritz told CBS Sports earlier this spring that he’s tried to get the idea implemented “for years” to compete against other teams in spring ball.
“You’ve got a 50% less chance of guys getting injured,” Fritz said. “I think it’d be something that’s neat for the crowd to see. You could probably use to help your collective as well. I think it’d be awesome, good for both teams. One year they go to your place, the next year you go to the other place. I think it’d be something you’d get even…
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Author : Chris Hummer
Publish date : 2025-03-29 14:48:00
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