WSU spring game won’t feature any scoring gimmicks
It's spring game season in college football and what that means depends on what school you're talking about.
College football coaches have come up with myriad ways of making their annual scrimmages interesting for fans and at some schools that means coming up with some gimmicky scoring systems so that the No. 1 offense can test itself against the No. 1 defense and so forth.
For example, at Southern IIllinois there will be a two-way scoring system where points are awarded for a variety of reasons. Rice's offensive players can get extra points for getting multiple first downs, Nevada is trying something new this year and at Oklahoma it's all about what color jersey the quarterback is wearing.
But the Washington State Cougars are going to split into roughly equal teams in Spokane on Saturday, and just play some football, according to coach Mike Leach:
"I think what we're going do is split the team in half and let them play. I don't want any of those scoring systems that require an accountant to sort it out. I hate that. Well, you're out there trying to run plays and you're standing there on the sideline and everyone's murmuring and wondering, 'well, do we get one point …' I hate that."
