And yet … at many other major schools the Spring game is a big deal and incites enthusiasm for the team’s prospects heading into the fall. Here we seem to do all we can to downplay it which serves to diminish any excitement for the program.
Some cite the financial aspects. Well, the game itself may not generate positive cash flow however, the excitement it “could” produce (if marketed and structured well) may pour over into the upcoming season generating that positive cash flow. It’s the old “can’t see the forest because the trees are in the way.”