Some called it a family reunion. Others, often in the same breath, elected to describe SMU athletics’ return to campus as challenging, crazy and sometimes uncomfortable.
Regardless of how people inside SMU’s practices have characterized the last six weeks of limited workouts, liability waivers and testing; there was one characteristic that was universally employed to depict the new reality: surreal.
That shouldn’t come as a shock, it seems to be a versatile descriptor these days as teams play amid a pandemic.
It was surreal when, on March 11, SMU’s men’s basketball team sat inside a Marriott Hotel in Fort Worth preparing for a conference tournament when they all got a text saying the season was over.