In a sport rife with dissension, everyone in college football – ACC and SEC, players and coaches, media and fans – should be able to agree that July is too early to start practicing. It’s too hot. It’s too early. It’s … July.
Many teams are starting practice this month under a one-year waiver that accompanied the overdue elimination of two-a-day practices, but it could become standard practice under a proposal to spread the 12-game regular season over 14 weeks.
The idea, under examination by the NCAA’s football oversight committee, is to give players more time off during the season out of concerns for player safety, especially given the proliferation of weekday games and short turnarounds.