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Monday, February 11, 2008
Spring game? Perhaps. Spring concert? Not in ‘08
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech has backed off plans for a big event on the eve of the spring game and is looking at doing something smaller scale on the day of the game April 19.
There are two reasons. Tech was running out of time to plan something, and, more importantly, the spring game might not end up being a spring game.
With 58 scholarship players and the inevitable injuries you can expect in a spring, fielding two complete teams to go head-to-head could be a problem. 58 players - 44 offensive and defensive starters = a 14-player cushion, and when you break it down position by position there’s a high likelihood there will be somewhere (say, center, for instance) where there aren’t enough bodies to have a full-fledged game.
Practice gets started March 24, with Tech likely to work Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on most of the four weeks.
With all the changes taking place, the Yellow Jackets shouldn’t need much in the way of ancillary events to drum up interest in the spring game/scrimmage. There will be a lot of new things to see.
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