Always great to welcome on, friend of the show, Tim Fitzgerald, Go Powercat covering Kansas State.

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So Tim, where I want to start this conversation with you is with spring football.

Now, I'm kind of coming off of the chaos of March madness. And I just feel like the juice

around spring football and spring practice in general across the country, across the Big 12,

is not what it was even five, six years ago. Is that your sense or am I just misreading this?

You're right. And, you know, it's all part of the same ongoing storyline at the changes of

college football. I think a lot of this is due to the simple fact it's been waning in interest for a number

of years simply because spring football used to be a way to get your athletic department back

in the headlines. Get the TV stations to show up. Now with social media, that purpose is gone.

You don't need that anymore. You don't need the advertising. You

don't need a spring game to go reach the fans. If it's a tradition, you like to do it.

Nebraska certainly is a perfect example of that. They should never quit having a spring

game if they're allowed to. But, you know, and now spring games have lost their importance

because it is a practice.

You only have 15 of them.

And coaches are valuing that over kind of a watered a down game in which they try not to

show anything.

You know, you go with that in the transfer portal and guys have been showing up later and

it just doesn't mean the same anymore.

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