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Although some may say they are already doing it in the regular season, the notion of scrimmaging against DI-AA teams in the college football preseason has a few SEC coaches intrigued, according to Ron Higgins of the Memphis Commercial Appeal "Is this something you've heard in conversation somewhere?" Tuberville asked me Wednesday during the SEC coaches' first teleconference of the regular season. ... "If we could set it up the way we want to, that would be great," Croom said. "You don't have to stick to a game schedule. You can evaluate and critique a young man. It's not a bad idea at all. It would make it interesting for the players. I can tell you from coaching in the NFL (as a Green Bay Packers assistant among other stops) that you get tired of practicing against each other after a week or two." Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer also backs the idea. "I think we ought to scrimmage like the pros do in preseason so you don't have 22 starters out there at the same time with great risk
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