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South Carolina Football Coach Shane Beamer Suggests Teams Should Be Allowed To Scrimmage Each Other

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South Carolina football coach Shame Beamer has a solid idea for how college football can be improved.

While there are several changes college football fans would probably like to see, Beamer had a very simple one that I think most people would agree would be great.

 

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“I would love to see in either spring practice or the month of August where we could actually scrimmage another college football team,” the head coach of the Gamecocks said during a recent appearance on College Sports on SiriusXM.

You can listen to his full comments below.

While it’s not a change that would send shockwaves through the sport, teams being able to scrimmage each other before the season starts would be pretty epic.

Imagine if USC and Texas had a preseason scrimmage. Whether it was broadcast or not people would go crazy for any information that came out of it.

 

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Even better, imagine if Alabama scrimmaged a powerhouse from a different conference. If that was put on TV, even though it’s only a scrimmage, the ratings would be insane.

As a Wisconsin fan, I would clear my schedule for any scrimmage the Badgers were in.

 

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Even though I’m not an SEC fan, I 100% support Beamer’s recommendation!