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Whether the college football season
begins as scheduled – or, in the worst
case, if the season exists at all – might
be decided by late spring or early sum-
mer and will hinge largely on when
teams currently separated by distanc-
ing efforts are able to gather on campus-
es and restart offseason programs side-
lined by the coronavirus strain.
Teams are only beginning to address
the issue in earnest, as coaching staffs
attempt to map out and scheme for foot-
ball’s indefinite absence. However,
many Bowl Subdivision head coaches
say they believe early July, and prefer-
ably June, is the latest teams could re-
turn to normalcy and still meet the start
of the season, which is scheduled to be-
gin on the last Saturday in August.
“You’d like to get them back by June,”
said Indiana coach Tom Allen. “As long
as we can have June and July to get our
players ready, I think that’s enough
time.”
By the middle of June would be pref-
erable and “July 1 would be the absolute
latest, in my opinion, to have one month
before you started fall camp,” South
Florida coach Jeff Scott said. “Anything
later than that would be a big challenge

• a bigger challenge. I would say we’ll
  know more in a month from now. We’ll
  probably be able to guess. Even if we
  don’t know, we’ll be able to have a better
  guess.”
  Three main factors are influencing
  the thinking of FBS programs and head
  coaches, who have been forced to re-
  draw offseason plans since the wide-
  spread cancellation of all spring activ-
  ities this month.
  One is scheduling. NCAA bylaws re-
  lated to the start of fall camp dictate a
  team can open practices no earlier than
  29 days before its first game. (There are
  mitigating circumstances that can im-
  pact start dates for universities that
  prohibit athletic activities during a spe-
  cific day of the week due to religious rea-
  sons.) Teams slated to begin this season
  on Aug. 29, for example, would be al-
  lowed to start fall camp July 31.
  Typically, most or all of an FBS roster
  during any given season is collected on
  campus within the two weeks following
  Memorial Day, marking the start of
  summer workouts. A later start this off-
  season would compress that schedule,
  perhaps dramatically.
  Another factor is the lack of a tradi-
  tional spring, which has had a general
  impact on the overall readiness of teams
  heading into summer workouts. Com-
  pounding that issue is the most press-
  ing topic of concern: that with athletes
  away from campus and unable to partic-
  ipate in standard conditioning pro-
  grams, teams might be able to recon-
  vene in early July but will need a longer

stretch of time than normal to get back

into playing shape before taking the

practice field that month.

“That’s one of my concerns,” said Old

Dominion coach Ricky Rahne. “When

do we get them back? And can we build

them up in time in order to last the en-

tire season?”

Teams could need up to six weeks to

become physically ready for training

camp, Washington State coach Nick Ro-

lovich estimated. In that timeline,

teams would need to be gathered with-

out any practice or training limitations

no later than the middle of June.

“I’m sure there needs to be some kind

of strength and conditioning period,” he

said. “That’s what’s going into this con-

versation. What do these kids need?

What do these kids deserve, to be able to

withstand a 13-, 14-, 15-game season?

You talk about health and wellness of

student-athletes, you can’t just show up

at training camp, not in today’s game,

and think you’re going to get 25 prac-

tices in and feel like your guys are pre-

pared to not only put on a good football

game but safety-wise, you know.”

Most programs have been separated

for the better part of two weeks as part

of the larger decisions made by univer-

sities to close down classes for the re-

mainder of the spring semester. Coach-

es have worked remotely while athletes

have returned home, leaving programs

to conduct positional or team-wide

meetings using FaceTime and Zoom.

Those tools have made it possible, if

still a challenge, for teams to study play-

books and review film. But programs

have been unable to replicate the crucial

conditioning programs that define col-

lege football’s offseason even as

strength coaches issue voluntary work-

out plans with group text messages or

on private Instagram pages – plans that

rely almost entirely on body weight to

offset the lack of private and quarantin-

ed gym space available to the everyday

athlete.

Even as some strength coaches tailor

workouts by position or even to a specif-

ic player, the lack of in-person contact

among coaches and athletes makes it

difficult to estimate the time frame

needed to round back into playing

shape.

“How long it takes to get ready for the

season is based upon the training status

our players come back in,” said Indiana

strength coach Aaron Wellman. “And we

trust our players to do what’s right at

home, we trust our players to do it better

than anyone in the country, and so

there’s no concerns yet. But certainly

we want ample time with them when

they come back to get them ready for the

rigors of the season.”

Penn State coach James Franklin

spoke this week with university athletic

director Sandy Barbour and on Wednes-

day held conversations with members

of the Nittany Lions’ strength staff and

training staff to discuss options for

when, and how, the team could return to

the football facility this summer.

“We’ve got to come out of this and be

ready to hit the ground running,” Frank-

lin said. “What is that? Is it 30 days, 45

days, 60 days? Is it 90 days? What is

needed to make sure that we’re going to

be in good shape, that the players are

going to be able to protect themselves

and be able to go out and compete at a

high level? What does that look like?”

The June or July deadline isn’t

shared by all coaches. Ohio State’s Ryan

Day said it was important that players

stay in shape but “it wasn’t that long

ago” that teams didn’t return to campus

in full until August, “and they got them-

selves in shape.”

“You went through preseason camp

and you did everything you can to get

them into shape to go play in Septem-

ber,” Day said. “So that model is out

there.”

That mindset resembles the outlier.

It would be hard to come back in August

and get his team ready, said Boston Col-

lege coach Jeff Hafley. Overloading

teams with workouts and practice after

a long absence might be “overzealous,”

said Kent State coach Sean Lewis.

“I don’t see that being real smart or

real logical,” Lewis said.

Conversations held this week on a

conference level among coaches and

athletic directors have concerned how

and when to replace practices lost dur-

ing the spring and to a lesser degree over

the impact spring cancellations will

have on the recruiting calendar.

While college football’s offseason

calendar remains very fluid, discus-

sions on a conference and FBS-wide

level will eventually shift to developing

a standardized start date for preseason

workouts. The varying impact of

COVID-19 on cities and campuses might

complicate that equation.

“If we get everybody back here at the

end of May or first of June, then I’d feel

good,” Scott said. “But if we don’t see an

end in sight a month from now and it

looks like it’s going to push into July,

then that’s when they could start talk-

ing about abbreviated seasons and all

those kinds of things.”

Player return date worries coaches

Coronavirus impact could affect football workout, practice, season timelines

Paul Myerberg
USA TODAY

Indiana football coach Tom Allen, like other college coaches, wonders when he will get his team back on the field for

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