Brandon Marcello on the potential end of spring games in college football

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National college football writer Brandon Marcello joined the Fan After Dark to talk about the idea that college programs don't want to host spring games anymore due to tampering concerns, the further professionalization of the game of college football, and more.

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00:00You had a story and this is what piqued my interest and we talked about this a couple

00:18weeks ago when Matt rule said the unthinkable that they were not and this is coming from

00:22Nebraska which is you know I mean that spring game is one of their biggest deals where they're

00:27not going to do a spring game or at least they're leaning towards not doing it because

00:31of the tampering and he's tired of losing players and now you've got an article coming

00:34out today that essentially said look you've got a lot of folks that are kind of along

00:38that line of thinking.

00:39A little bit about the piece and kind of where are we at right now with where you know how

00:42NIL and with the transfer portal and how it's starting to affect spring football.

00:47Yeah you know last month the FBS coaches had their annual meeting at the ASCA convention

00:53and they decided to vote on a proposal at that time to shrink the portal windows which

00:58is two portal windows now totaling 45 days, one in December, one in April.

01:04Well they decided hey let's do a proposal where we shrink that down to one window in

01:09January for 10 days.

01:11Now they voted unanimously on that.

01:13Now it gets bumped up to the NCAA level and it's got to pass two more committees to even

01:17be put in effect which is probably unlikely at this point because they'll probably fight

01:20back on it.

01:22Unfortunately during those conversations behind closed doors we started hearing some

01:29murmurs about how they were talking about hey maybe we should get rid of spring practices.

01:34Maybe we should move to an OTA, an organized team activities type of format that the NFL

01:39uses.

01:40Maybe move that to June or maybe heck just starting the spring semester give us 30 days

01:46at our choosing between January and June and July to do organized team activities and

01:54give us maybe like 10 days within those 30 days to actually kind of hit and do some full

01:59contact practices and there was a lot of support in that room I'm told based off my sourcing

02:04on this and so here are the last few days.

02:08I reached out to a lot of head coaches, talked to 18 of them to kind of get their feel on

02:12everything and quite a bit of them are in favor of some type of tweak to the spring

02:20calendar and a lot of them really don't like doing the spring games because some of them

02:26believe that it leads to potential roster tampering because their games are on national

02:32television these spring games and most of them get done in late March and other coaches

02:38watch their game and go you know what I really like those two players they have on their

02:41roster we should try and call them see if they'll enter the portal here in two weeks

02:45when this second portal window opens up.

02:48So a lot to consider here but again this is something that's really kind of hammered home

02:54the point that coaches are just really not happy right now with the calendar in the way

03:00it sets up right now for college football.

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