When college football returns — some say if it returns, but I’m in the when camp — it will be different.
With little or no spring practice for most teams, with lessened off-season conditioning, with likely limited or no summer drills coordinated by quarterbacks or leaders, with perhaps even abbreviated preseason practice in August or whatever month precedes the season, no way will the product be the same.
But will it look different? Good news — Lincoln Riley says we won’t be able to tell the difference.
I asked Riley that question the other day. What would inferior football look like? Riley chuckled, which I took as a compliment, not an insult.
“Shoot, probably what we’d see about halfway through fall camp or halfway through spring practice, that you guys don’t get to see a lot of,” Riley said. “To a fan’s eye, I think the game will still be fantastic.
“Now, to a coach’s eye, to a very experienced eye, may they be able to pick out a thing or two here or there? Yes. I don’t think it will hurt the quality of the fan experience … the experience and excitement, I don’t think it will have any effect at all.”
Football teams over the decades are practicing less and conditioning more. In the old days, there were far fewer restrictions on spring and August practices. But during much of that era, players were not on campus during the summer. Nowadays, organized conditioning is mandatory in the winter and quite compulsory in the summer, though it’s labeled voluntary.
So players are better conditioned than ever before but not as well drilled as in previous times. Some coaches bemoan that change, and they no doubt spot all kinds of substandard technique and play undetectable by us civilians.
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