How A Spring Game Could Work Between WVU & Marshall
By Christopher Humphrey @_CBH_ on Apr 23, 2015, 5:03p 1
Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports
With improvements being suggested for annual spring games, WVU could improve the annual Gold-Blue Game by doing away with the split squad format, and playing the Mountain State's other FBS program, Marshall, for in-state bragging rights each April.
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The West Virginia football team closes out the spring practice season with the annual Gold-Blue game at Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday, the last chance Mountaineer fans will be able to see their team in pseudo-action until the 2015 season opener against Georgia Southern on September 5.
Already being a fan favorite event each year, Director of Athletics Shane Lyons could make a change to the Gold-Blue game that would make it ‘can't miss' like most regular season games in the fall.
In place of playing the classic split squad encounter between the Gold and Blue teams each year, WVU could get a better sense of the team's talent level and who will be key playmakers for the upcoming season by playing another college football program. It would give the Gold-Blue game more importance, and certainly bring more people to Morgantown for the game.
That idea has been gaining traction with other college coaches elsewhere in recent days...
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By Christopher Humphrey @_CBH_ on Apr 23, 2015, 5:03p 1
Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports
With improvements being suggested for annual spring games, WVU could improve the annual Gold-Blue Game by doing away with the split squad format, and playing the Mountain State's other FBS program, Marshall, for in-state bragging rights each April.
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The West Virginia football team closes out the spring practice season with the annual Gold-Blue game at Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday, the last chance Mountaineer fans will be able to see their team in pseudo-action until the 2015 season opener against Georgia Southern on September 5.
Already being a fan favorite event each year, Director of Athletics Shane Lyons could make a change to the Gold-Blue game that would make it ‘can't miss' like most regular season games in the fall.
In place of playing the classic split squad encounter between the Gold and Blue teams each year, WVU could get a better sense of the team's talent level and who will be key playmakers for the upcoming season by playing another college football program. It would give the Gold-Blue game more importance, and certainly bring more people to Morgantown for the game.
That idea has been gaining traction with other college coaches elsewhere in recent days...
SmokingMusket.com