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the sooners are called land thieves 

He might want to be careful playing that game, it could backfire if other programs have more fans than NU.

If you claim to have more fans showing up than anywhere else in the country, and it is not correct, it's misleading, if anyone cares.

Yeah, I read the comment above that that he didn't make.

The Dawg spring game was predictably boring, I watched some of it.  They were passing on almost every down, which makes sense I think.  The two backup QBs made some nice throws and some bad ones (duh).  The freshman QB who is something like 6'6" and 200 pounds has wheels and a good arm, but needs weight, duh.  The Dawgs start off at Vandy and then two pastries before hosting ND, so perhaps they can get some experience and keep Fromm healthy.  Low attendance in part because of the lousy weather.

https://www.dawgnation.com/football/instant-analysis-defense-the-winner-as-red-edges-black-22-17-in-g-day-game

A lot of potential recruits present, which as noted, is perhaps the real reason for these things.

Does anyone know about when spring games became something folks attended as opposed to a scrimmage in the stadium in front of 200 people?

I don't recall it being "a thing" when I was in school (1972-1980).  I do recall the freshman games at times, not anything about spring practice.

Of course, back then "things were different".  When Nebraska demolished UGA in 1969, Dooley "realized" that perhaps he needed a more organized system of weight training.  They had not had one, the players were on their own.  Maybe they were encouraged or whatever, but they had no real weight training strength system.

I played volleyball with several starters in 1973 and they were not notably huge athletic specimens.  Our tight end often ended up opposite me on the net and we had some battles.  I think they current TEs would have destroyed me.  I was 6'4" and about 180 lbs and fairly athletic at the time.  I think today a football player on campus is easily recognizable as such most of the time, perhaps DBs excepted.  The UGA OL averaged about 245 pounds in 1995.  They average around 330 now.  I doubt any P5 team has a 245 OLman anywhere.

I suspect the spring game at UGA curca 1975 was simply the final scrimmage played in the stadium and anyone could show up, but it wasn't a thing.

My kids once asked me if I watched video tapes a lot when I was a kid.

Kids today may ask what the Internet was like in 1980.

Or cell phones.  Or computers.  

I walked up to the library today and was struck by all the large buildings that have sprung up around the area.  Circa 1950 this was a residential area.  A fairly tall couple of building were built around 1970.  Photos show them amidst a lot of houses.  It was an attempt to urbanize the area, and pretty much failed until about 2000 or so.  This whole area was vastly different when I was in tenth grade, and by the time I was in college it was an area to avoid unless you wanted drugs.

It was a nice walk for me, beautiful weather tending to being slightly warm in the sun.  I enjoy walking.

Things change.  I was writing a history of my family and made the remark that when my dad was born in 1917, their lives were no different from folks living in 1717, no electricity, no paved roads, no effective medicines, maybe a few cars, maybe not, ... if you live without electricity you basically are living in the Dark Ages.

That area today is a big retirement mecca.

This photo is from 1895 and shows a college game played across the street from where we live now:



I love this old stuff.  But I digress.