ATHENS — Somewhere Vince Dooley is rolling his eyes, but also, nodding his head.
There’s nothing “new” about the concept of teams playing one another in spring games, an idea Dooley pitched in the 1980s that new Auburn coach Hugh Freeze recently resurrected.
“I just think it would be great for the sport,” Freeze said earlier this month, per AL.com. “I think it’d be awesome.”
Not only would spring football games be awesome, but they are also needed as programs search for ways to generate additional money to pay skyrocketing coaching salaries and help generate NIL funding for players’
Sponsors, donors and season ticket holders can and will only do so much.
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