NCAA committee won't grant wavier for Colorado-Syracuse spring football game despite push from Deion Sanders

The momentum down a imaginable outpouring scrimmage betwixt 2 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams this April has travel to a screeching halt.

Colorado shot caput manager Deion Sanders precocious pitched associated practices betwixt the Buffaloes and Syracuse starring up to the accumulation game.

"To person it competitive, playing against your ain guys benignant of gets monotonous," Sanders said during a quality league past week. "You truly can’t archer the level of your guys, due to the fact that it’s the aforesaid old, aforesaid aged — everybody benignant of knows each other."

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A NCAA logo connected the tract earlier the crippled betwixt the South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the North Dakota State Bison successful the Division I FCS Football Championship held astatine Toyota Stadium connected January 8, 2023, successful Frisco, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

Syracuse manager Fran Brown yet accepted the situation from Sanders, but support of a waiver from the NCAA's FBS oversight committee was needed for the imaginable crippled to determination forward. 

On Friday, the committee yet decided to contradict the waiver for a associated scrimmage. The determination comes amid a inclination of assemblage shot programs crossed the state weighing the value of accepted outpouring games.

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Some of the coaches who elected to cancel their respective outpouring games cited the hazard of wounded to the players. Others expressed interest implicit imaginable transportation defections.

The magnitude of runway remaining for a imaginable scrimmage appeared to beryllium 1 of the NCAA's sticking points. The outpouring signifier docket has already been mapped retired for an overwhelming fig of schools. Therefore, Colorado had a constricted fig of imaginable opponents. 

Colorado shot manager Deion Sanders looks connected against Texas Tech successful a Big 12 shot crippled connected Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, astatine Jones AT&T Stadium. (Stephen Garcia/Avalanche-Journal / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

A scrimmage could besides supply a recruiting vantage for 2 participating schools, an accidental different programs would not needfully have. 

Despite the name, image, and likeness (NIL) climate, the NCAA besides expressed world concerns.

Apr 22, 2023; Boulder, CO: Folsom Field during the archetypal fractional of a outpouring game. (Ron Chenoy-USA Today Sports)

Nebraska precocious revealed plans to regenerate its accepted intra-squad scrimmage with skills competitions and 7-on-7 games successful precocious April.

In a memo obtained by The Athletic, the committee is not wholly closing the doorway connected aboriginal scrimmages arsenic plans are successful spot to code the taxable successful the future. "The committee agreed to discuss, during a aboriginal meeting, a conception that could licence associated practices," the memo stated.

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In caller days, different coaches person joined Sanders' enactment for outpouring scrimmages. Oklahoma State manager Mike Gundy suggested a matchup with Oklahoma, portion Texas Tech manager Joey McGuire said helium was successful favour of a associated signifier with teams successful the region. 

Colorado's outpouring crippled is scheduled for April 19 successful Boulder.

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