Well, I actually think it's pretty sad when you see something like Alabama selling out their entire stadium for a scrimmage.
I think most people go to one of our scrimmages and realize that it's pretty boring- and I would say the same is probably true for most schools scrimmages- and they realize that there are better things to do with ones life. Plus, CSS puts them all on TVanyway, so why spend the gas money and 5 bucks to watch a practice, when you can watch the "enhanced" version for free?
Also, the baseball team sucking probably hurt the football scrimmage at least a little bit. We had one of the lowest Sat. crowds for a SBW Sat. baseball game in awhile. I imagine if we were better, more people would have been willing to leave their house an hour earlier and knock around at the football game.
I think the high water mark for our football scrimmage was after the 2000 season. That was the era of Phone Booth Bivines, Randy Moss Hargro, and Don't worry about Dontae's weight, he'll get back into playing shape once we tie a tire to him and make him pick up a telephone pole. I thought everyone looked good in that game. I was so wooly, I thought 8 wins would be a disappointment, and 10 looked like a distinct possibility. At least I learned my lesson.
Plus, you can't really learn anything from spring games. The star players don't play very much, if at all. And everytime something good happens, that also means that you did something bad. It's very much a grain of salt game.
