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The LSU football announces changes to the annual National L Club Spring Game

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Baton Rouge -LSU football announced on April 12 at the Tiger Stadium the formatting changes at its annual National L Club Spring Football game.

After the team's fifth spring training on Saturday morning, Brian Kelly reported that the LSU is handing over its annual spring football game that treads the spring session, and its 15 assigned exercises on a “much more committed event for our fans with our players”.

Kelly said that LSU's spring game “will not be a continuous game”. The plan is to divide the team's last practice into situational work. Kelly expects the tigers to work many special teams in the game this year.

The idea, he said, is that the “spring game” works more like one of the normal spring exercises of the LSU.

“For us it will be the highlight of the work we will do. It will be a scrimmage, but it is checked, situational,” said Kelly. “You have the chance to see all of your favorite players and to be part of our 15 practices.

“We will complete the event with an autograph meeting in the field in the Tiger Stadium. A more appealing event for our fans with our players.

If you change the structure and format of the scrimmage – the team is not divided into two different teams – the LSU coaching can orchestrate the games you want to see and at the same time give you a way to bring more players on the field for the rating on the field.

“It's about giving all of our players the opportunity to get representatives. I can go to one -on -one discussions so that we can get some really good matchups to test our players,” said Kelly. “This format for the spring game makes sense for us and enables us to work on things that we need to get better.”

Kelly plans that the spring game is more like an OTA exercise that most football fans got to know from the NFL. The teams are only allowed to allow so many exercises in spring, and Kelly said in the past that his teams had to build the 14th training session to prepare the players for the logistics of the spring game.

With this new format, employees and players do not have to adapt anything.

“In this way we get a full practice of 14 and 15, we receive more development work that makes more sense,” said the LSU coach.

“Let's think like Otas. You get so many, so let them use them.”

Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for the Daily Advertister as part of the USA Today Network. Follow his Tigers reporting on Twitter: @bycorydiaz. Do you have any questions about LSU light athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz under bdiaz@gannett.com.