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Opening Day "NFL Style" Open Practices: The New College Football Trend?

Quick Poll: Fan Buy-In 12 members have voted

  1. 1. If your Texas opened up a fall practice, which tier would you be looking at?

    • Tier 1 (Bleacher Creature): $50-100 (Basic admission, open seating)
      8%
      1
    • Tier 2 (Gridiron VIP): $150 - $250 (Field-level access, souvenir lanyard, post-practice player autographs)
      33%
      4
    • Hard Pass: $0 (Practices should remain free or closed to keep game plans secret)
      58%
      7

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The Ohio State Buckeyes recently kicked off their fall practice by hosting an "NFL Open Practice" style event for fans, and word is they might hold a few more. This marks a potential shift in how major programs approach fall camp.

In today's NIL and facility "arms race," is any extra revenue stream worth pursuing if it also gives fans a fun, unique experience?

How do we feel about this overall? How much would you personally be willing to pay to attend one of these open practices?

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As long as there isn't anything revealed schematically, I think it'd be kinda cool to open a practice or two up to fans. Just have them run routes on air or do one on ones or even 7on7. You could sell a lot of tickets and keep it to an hour then when the fans leave actually practice plays and installs, etc.

As someone mentioned in another thread, this was a regular occurrence early in Mack's tenure, but it was free.  

That was 25+ years ago and I know times have changed, but if you're worried about losing a game because there's video of your first two days of drills, your team has bigger issues.  

This is what's great about the Spring Game or whatever it is now - you provide access to a lot of fans that will never have that type of access to players or maybe ever even step into DKR.

Hell, I'm in my 50s and I still think it's cool to have photo ops with Bevo.

So, yeah, I wish we would take a more fan-forward approach to our Spring Game and our first two days of warm-ups in shorts.

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