Hayes: College football should be smarter, end spring practice as we know it

February 4, 2025

By Matt Hayes, USA Today Network: The causation is clear and inarguable. We don’t need a football coach to explain that nothing happens in a vacuum.

If illegal tampering is rampant and unchecked in college football, why have a spring game and invite coaches from every school to view your roster in a game setting and decide which player to throw money at?

So Nebraska coach Matt Rhule says he may cancel his program’s widely popular (and populated) spring game to avoid it. And because he opened the door to this specific problem, it has left an opportunity to debate a larger issue facing college football ― one with tentacles reaching all the way to the NFL’s inexplicable free development system.

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College football should end spring practice as we know it -- and charge NFL for player development

Nothing happens in a vacuum. Want to eliminate spring practice? Start with the NFL model -- then start charging the NFL for player development.

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