It’s been a long time coming, but in the month of April, once again, fans will be able to file back into Michigan Stadium to take in the Wolverines for the annual spring game.
In 2020, all of spring football was canceled due to COVID-19, and in 2021, the spring game was closed to the public. But with spring practice starting on Monday, Feb. 21, like we last saw in 2019, it’ll culminate in a scrimmage in which fans are allowed to attend, Jim Harbaugh told Jon Jansen on the ‘In the Trenches’ podcast.
“Yessir! Spring game is going to be April 2, unless it’s a complete — unless we have lightning, which we had one year,” Harbaugh said. “And we had to move that inside. But it’s gonna go off that day unless we’re in a pause, but I think the chances of that are not very likely. Even if we have to pause before that, we’ll do the spring game April 2.
“Do it how we like to do it — split up the staffs, Steve Clinkscale is gonna be the head coach of one of the teams, Sherrone Moore’s gonna be the head coach of the other, and we split the staffs and we have a draft, so we have two different teams. It’ll be one of those color out things — one team will be in the all-blues, the other will be in the all-maize, and it’ll be a football game. Make it as much like a football game as can be made. Guys get their, in some cases, their first chance to be in a game in The Big House. It’s always very exciting. Some of the starters — think of it like a preseason game — they may play a quarter, they may play a half. And the second half, guys play who haven’t played in a game before and they get their first experience of doing it. Opportunity all the way. And it’s fun and competitive.”
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