I Guess Muschamp Thinks Little of Experience . . .

[Cane from the Bend]

The florida gators will not be hosting a spring game this year.

According to florida coaching staff, the gators are too dinged up to participate in an actual game.

Instead, it will be a typical practice that includes 11-on-11 situational scrimmages.

Head coach Will Muschamp said: "To me, it's about getting good-on-good work. It's about getting your best players going against your best players. I see some of these spring games, these guys put their first group against the rest of them. You don't get any better doing that stuff. You get better when you're going good-on-good. --- We've got 11 offensive linemen on scholarship on campus, but with [six] of those guys being out right now, it's not fair to go in a spring game situation and ask these guys to take 60, 70 snaps in a row. Muschamp said. That's not healthy. It's not good. It's not good for our football team."

florida has a lot of young players who would benefit by picking up valuable experience in a time like this.

Also, there is something to be said of discipline & conditioning.

The gators are going to face teams who have up tempo offenses. If your guys are not conditioned to play 60, 70 snaps, then they may not be conditioned to win.

Those fast pace spreads have a tendency to prevent the defense from rotating players; Deliberately so, as a way to draw fatigue to their opposition, and force the other side to called time outs.

Not preparing your team for this sort of competitiveness, leaves you vulnerable . . .

Then again; if it is florida doing this, I'm all for it.

Muschamp doesn't understand the importance of pitting his young guys vs his experienced guys . . . that it's about affording the younger players to get better by having them participate in a real game situation . . . that when these kids are called upon during the actual season; they will not have the understanding of real game speed, and be unprepared for the field when they are needed to perform at a contenders level.

I'm okay with that . . . since it's the gators we're talking about.

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[RazorHawk]

I kind of wonder if the Spring games are almost more for the fans than the progress of the team. Of course, most Spring games do not draw that many fans, with a few exceptions.