SMU's June Jones: 'Have-not' CFB programs should play in the spring

Are you among the millions of football fans who have been craving football on your televisions during the spring and summer months?

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If you are, SMU head coach June Jones has a revolutionary idea that would bring some college football to your television sets during the spring.

“I think the have-nots should go ahead and move to the spring just like the USFL did. I think that there’s an opportunity to do a complete other side of that division, and I think that if we don’t think that way as a group of have-nots, we’re going to get left behind,” Jones told WDEA in Tampa.

“I can see in five-to-seven years, possibly, the public would demand to have the two leagues play, just like I think the USFL had in mind, originally, of the winner of the USFL playing the winner of the National Football League.”

Jones coached in the USFL with the Houston Gamblers and Denver Gold so he knows how the exposure his teams received in the spring when there was no pro or college football to compete with, but could the “have-nots” actually break away from the “Power 5” conferences and make this a reality?

Not likely.

The ramifications of adjusting the NFL Draft to accommodate players playing in the spring, adjusting television contracts and agreements with bowl sites would make this all but a fantasy scenario for Jones.

Naturally, there would be a market to watch football in the spring and summer months when fans are starved for the game so much that an event like the NFL Combine or SEC Media Days generates solid TV ratings.

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SMU’s June Jones: ‘Have-not’ CFB programs should play in the spring

By Patrick Schmidt | Jul 18, 2014