Shatel: Yes, Nebraska said goodbye to the spring game. But “showcase” may be better – Fremont Tribune

– Husker Fan Fest, ready for the last weekend in April. A chance to meet football and volleyball players and coaches. Nil chances too, of course. Carnival rides. Matt Ruley on the immersion tank. Game a horse with Dani Busboom Kelly (be careful about her back jumper).

– Nebraska football and volleyball graduates Bash. A golf tournament with the two groups where fans can pay to play with their loved ones. Then on Saturday at the stadium, a flag football match between football and volleyball characters. Volleyball game between football and volleyball characters. A huge dinner or cooking with fans that pony. I just spit on here.

– The Spring Camp weekend with children clinics and a chance for little boys to hang out with their characters. One -day fantasy camp for their dads and mothers to stand up and hang with their characters. How about Football 101 with Dana Holgorsen? This would be sold faster than you can draw X or O.

– For serious football fans – there are several hundred thousand of you – put on football practice. What is better than watching a pretense game? A real practice where you can know how to make a sausage. Redbo training. Offensive against defense lines technique things. All this.

The question here is: there must be a million and a better way to take a weekend from the spring football match.

We will understand, as, as Nu Athletic Troy Dannen’s director said this week, the spring game disappears. In fact, it’s gone.

The reasons for the sail were the new list of 105 people and the risk of injuries. But on Saturday, Rule offered a little surprising reason.

“Last year, we were one of the most topniacal spring games,” Rule said. “And I have dealt with many people who offer our players other options afterwards.

“It doesn’t make much sense to me. The word forged no longer exists. It’s just an absolutely common, open free market. I do not have to want to open our players for the whole world. “

How about it? Forcing spring games. No one saw the one who comes.

This is the world of football football at the college we live in. On the day of the coaches, Vanilla Spring’s spring games because they did not want opponents to make notes.

To their plays. Not their players.

This is understandable. I’m sure some fans are upset. But would they be more distributed if they lost the starting left instrument or safety because of the seasoning of the spring game?

Yes. Hurter’s fans are craving to win more in the fall than win in the spring.

I am almost ready for players to sign revenue contracts with regulations that they cannot transfer in a year. Until then, spring game will be on the list of endangered species for many schools.

That’s good. I don’t remember many spring games. There was one in Mizzou where the sports colonists from St. Louis and Kansas City were released from the side line.

Of course, Jack Hoffman’s spring game will live in our hearts and minds forever. But I think there will always be room to do something similar in a new format.

The spring game has never been a big game. It was more recently an opportunity for fans to come to the memorial stadium in April, to wear their Husher facilities, to watch the team run out of the tunnel and eat a runza or a slice of a shaft.

Of course, there have always been many fans who wanted to look at the next wave of Husker starters, beginners, and mark the level of their pad or their technique, speed and moments.

Understood. But nothing that had happened in the spring game never meant that you would see this in the fall. The characters in the long spring games were fun to write, but they will usually not be heard again.

The key to spring game has always been access. At the stadium. To the team. This can continue.

Ruley still wants to show his players. I think there will be a way to do this. Maybe some skills competitions. Maybe a controlled Skrut.

Or regular practice. One of the more intriguing things that Bo Pelini did in the spring game was to stop the game to manage the workout in Oklahoma. Return that.

Would Big Ten TV TV? Doubtful. But Campus Eats is always welcome in the city.

Danen mentioned the doing of the autumn sports review. Imagine putting football and volleyball on Nebraska together for an event. I see a packed stadium and signs for a dollar.

And many smiles to Husker fans, young and old.

Maybe they can return John Cook to call some plays. Football, of course.