Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/gundy-suggests-home-and-home-bedlam-scrimmages-in-the-spring/
Bedlam in the spring.
Not the worst idea
You’re out of your mind Jarrod. Those morons down in Norman are annoying enough as it is. I can’t imagine how annoying they’d be if they “won” a spring scrimmage.
Agree, want nothing to do with the goons when it comes to football.
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This the same guy who has refused to have a spring game the last 10 or so years…or am I’m trippin’? 
I think it’s a great idea!
Pick up the phone and call their staff ya big goof!
The logistics of the value is others people concern. I say have a real game.
Maybe not mid november BEDLAM for the big 12 championship, these boys get injured from practice, sleeping wrong, and other natural non avoidable ways to get injured.
Make the call because it would be good for both teams.
Also the last 5 years of whatever you want to call our spring ender has been steamy piles of why man?
I like it mainly for the idea that its about pride and not the season. A good throwdown to get the blood flowing!
MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!! 
No reason not to do this. Its a glorified practice, and in the world of NIL, this is a way to make a little extra cash.
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We’re the only school in the country floating the idea about a potential spring game/scrimmage with a rival. So unserious.
This would absolutely tarnish the rivalry. A rivalry game is supposed to be a high-stakes, once-a-year battle that defines seasons and cements legacies. If you dilute it with a spring scrimmage, where there’s no real consequence… I mean give me a break. Imagine winning and having no grounds for bragging rights.
Spare me the arguments about NFL teams doing this. No one actually believes NFL rivalries are anything close to CFB rivalries.
“We’re the only school in the country floating the idea about a potential spring game/scrimmage with a rival” Not true. Deion has floated it out there. Some other coaches will partake if it takes off. There is zero harm in it. In this case, there is virtually zero cost. If you get 25,000 to show up at $20 , thats $500k that you didnt have.
“This would absolutely tarnish the rivalry”.This is a horribly dramatic take. How in the hell would a practice setting have any effect whatsoever on the history of Bedlam? Thats just as dumb as it gets.
“A rivalry game is supposed to be a high-stakes, once-a-year battle that defines seasons and cements legacies” Again, youre being very dramatic. Bedlam football was once a year. The other sports were not. What legacies have been cemented by anything outside of football on a few occasions?
“If you dilute it with a spring scrimmage, where there’s no real consequence” First off again, its not even a scrimmage. Its a practice. What consequence does any Bedlam mean now?
Bedlam baseball is going to happen pretty quickly. What does that matter? Same with the hoops in Dec. What did that matter? You comparing this practice idea to somehow what Bedlam has been historically is quite dramatic.
“Spare me the arguments about NFL teams doing this” Well, the college game is quickly becoming just like the NFL in every facet of the game, both on and off the field. You can choose to ignore it, but its just fact. They do it because its cost friendly, its productive, it allows you another lens to look through in gauging your talent. There is zero drawback to it.
“No one actually believes NFL rivalries are anything close to CFB rivalries” Yes, they do. You just happen to live in a part of the country where College Football is king. There is a reason why the NFL is the most popular version of football going and while they are different that what it is in college…there are still rivalries in the NFL
So some good points here although I can’t really rationalize if you are correct or not. Regardless as I have said I’m not a fan of doing anything one off with the goons when it comes to football. However if you take the school out of the conversation what HCMG is proposing sounds like a good idea. I also think that Gundy is thinking it would be efficient to do it with OU because they are just down the road. Perhaps he could take the concept and find another school close by that could participate.
You guys need to lighten up a little. If this is a thing, why would you not want to do it with a university “down the street”. The butthurt by some of you Aggies is REAL
Agree. There is absolutely zero negative to this. You could make a little cash. You could evaluate your guys in a different setting. See how some guys react when the bullets start flying a little. See how good you may be in some spots. See how far off you may be in another. Load up buses and go to Fayetteville, North Texas, Norman, Tulsa. No harm done at all. You dont win or lose. Hell you dont even have a scoreboard turned on for a deal like that.
I can’t believe how deeply offended you are by my competitiveness and passion for college football.
@Southwell I can see how someone who turns a 90 minute, non-televised, joint practice by into an actual Bedlam football game as a “high stakes, once a year battle that defines seasons and legacies”…would also say that somehow in my post I was “deeply offended”. You sir, are the Queen of Overreaction
When did I say that’s what this would become? I’m saying what a CFB rivalry game should be (with grandiloquent descriptions to emphasize the pageantry of college football). Instead, what Gundy is suggesting, would be making it into something insignificant.
Would Ohio State schedule a practice with Michigan for a few extra bucks? Alabama and Auburn?
@Southwell What a CFB rivalry game should be. Dude,we’re not talking about a game. Not by any strech. So let’s quit saying it or thinking it. How does what Gundy mentioned…effect anything involving the meaning of Bedlam football? How? If Bedlam were to happen in football again (which it will), no one will care one iota about what happened during a practice in April. You not only think it will affect the playing of the next Bedlam game, you somehow think it will make it “insignificant”? What in the world are you talking about? You think the players, fans, networks, TV ratings would somehow be lessened becuase of what took place in a joint-practice? Thats crazy talk.
First off, Bedlam to me is a rivalry. Obviously is to you as well. But its not on the scale of either of the two you just mentioned. Thats the first difference. The next is that Ohio St/Mich & Bama/Auburn are in the same Conf. Your comparison is apples and oranges