Come One, Come All!

The numbers are out! According to a University of Colorado survey about attendance numbers for this year's Spring Game scrimmages. It seems that there were over 1.3 million people that attended 96 games throughout the country.

What The College Football Guys think is the most interesting about these numbers is the amount of teams that actually charge to see their teams practice. While the list isn't long it includes some surprising members. Some programs that think they are special enough to charge for a scrimmage: Ole Miss ($10), Boise State ($7), East Carolina ($5), Miss. State ($5), Southern Miss ($5-10), K-State ($5), Rutgers ($5), Marshall ($5). In all fairness some of these schools need to squeeze every penning they can get out of fans to keep up with the Jones.

One thing we have learned is that Mississippians either have NOTHING better to do, or they have a large disposable income.

Mississippi - "Come Feel Good About Your State!"

Here is the link of attendance numbers compiled by the University of Colorado.

Here is the break down brought to us by http://www.bigrednetwork.com/.

Desperate Times Call for...

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini got a reminder this weekend of just how crazy Cornhusker country is when his team's spring scrimmage sold out Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Not only were most of the 80,000+ fans willing to pay the $10 admission price, on-line ticket broker Stub Hub were selling tickets for as much as $95, each! All this to see a scrimmage. Just goes to show the lengths that poor Cornhusker fans are willing to go to watch their beloved program win a game.

BTW boys and girls - L is for Loyalty...or Lunatic. F is for Fanatic.

Bash Smashed!

Well it looks like Grid Iron Bash has been sacked for this year. The multi-concert, spring, pregame, tailgate is a no go! The Grid Iron folks blame NCAA rules for not being able to allow football players to attend and be apart of the fun, however the NCAA claims they weren't even asked about the event until a couple weeks ago. This college football guy thinks that the meager 1500 tickets sold for LSU's Kid Rock/Sara Evans party might be an indication that this thing wasn't getting the support it needed. Maybe the NCAA is being used as great scape goat in this case.

We here at The College Football Guys talked in our March Madness podcast about alternative activities revolving around college football spring games. Some of the ideas were carnivals, fortune tellers, wet T-shirt contests, and our favorite, dunk contests. Can you imagine Mark Mangino the subject of a dunk contest? If you can't we want to give you a quick visual.

They might want to think about using the school swimming pool...