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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
practice and games. DOUGLAS DEFELICE/USA TODAY SPORTS
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