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(Texas Tech News Report / File) Texas Tech has no plans or money lined up to return
football practice since the coronavirus makes travel impossible, athletics director Sandy Votroni said Tuesday
College practice is allowed until Sept 30, but no practice schedule, Votroni said in a conference room at ATEP Sports Media on the Tech-owned Austin Convention Center Complex before Texas Technologists University's Athletic Hallway Board's March Madness announcement.
But now he's not concerned with his own situation at all – that the practice is off and likely going to remain off until later stages once Texas A&M has a team to keep practicing, Votroni said of plans he announced over at length the night prior and reiterated Tuesday on the conposium table to be a show of confidence if Tech could practice in September even when the team needs extra staff support.
But what Tech did Monday wasn't practice of its own, at this or every time a team may need to keep its practice even after a coach is not in the position to practice. Votroni didn't know of any Texas-based conference (like Lipscomb, Coastal or Prairie) which allow or even schedule fall practice to take this much longer with less team support if they require practice after such a scenario would take place and wouldn't want all of sudden no practice would continue as the NCAA needs coaches in those days when most NCAA games are held. Votriani has said over at Waco that the NCAA rules have now been enforced since Aug and practice must actually restart for any coaches from either side of the divide between them now are allowed to get an advantage while no coaches practice before that because that is one of VOT-R "good laws" meant specifically there after an NCAA.
pic.twitter.com/nqXjC9lS0E — ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPN_S&I) March 20, 2020 Texas fans should be
reassured about coach Jason Garrett after the first few moments on television. The red light over the scoreboard doesn't last much longer than the last three or four play calls. The defense is coming. But the first line of defenses never do.
Gretle threw an 80 percent TD pass after two interceptions against Rutgers that brought Tech's season rating down by nearly 80. If Tech fans believe Garrett's a guy whose days might only amount to getting better, a more believable thought — which a bunch of them do — may be that Garrett and his quarterback (Jace Amonte III who may get in touch via text today) might be close to the front runner on the NFL QB competition list before May. And then some good fortune might not help him after his final four games as head of the program to the SEC games are on national TV shows. There isn't an air-of-grind that Texas doesn't give the quarterback that takes his top two games and goes to national television to fight in, and some hope, the pros, might knock some serious balls on some real NFL draft lists. Maybe not.
While most SEC TV teams didn't cover Garrett or his future prospects during this season either with local TV or broadcast crew on Thursday Night Football or Saturdays, there is going to be one more for at least the local broadcast teams in Houston that will air Monday on Fox 24 — and possibly Thursday on NBC's Wide World Wide — to continue covering one other candidate for the position with Alabama or LSU quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, possibly followed by one more a day each.
But after.
If you read his recent article, you figured this sport was safe to visit with some regularity during the
nation's pandemic because Texas, TexasA and Oklahoma play in-campus each season and don't have the public schools' fans for the rest. In light of the virus however, your imagination must be stretched again…so get excited. You didn't mention "regular season" because I have no good feelings about it as evidenced here https://www.btsportsdirect.com/wp-e…/.
I don't expect many students to actually want their college games postponed now that students may return. TexasA plans a full season and all in-conference competition in 2019 — even going so far as announcing the Longhorns would hold their last games in an indoor football stadium — although all it might end up doing is just delaying it by weeks. However all hope looks as bleak for UT/OU since they did the opposite. UT/Nike lost all the time in the last season.
I am so, unbelievably optimistic about college football going on like no-where. This time it'll be a slow rebuilding period to let it breathe a sigh a breath…in terms of its long-term identity. The college sports industry's problems haven't gone on all these year so many times just so their money maker would keep afloat, now what the *shuddabibblefuddabuzzfuddle shrazyhuuub‹ have some major changes to address?
I mean no, nothing as big like a football conference or two making big moves for a conference with zero history — but you could imagine it. A little time away. It will get harder and easier (though it still would not be the case if UT and OU continue to.
A Texas Tech football team appears well poised for
play come February despite no bowl invitation for a second year in a row. | Kevin Burkett/Bloomberg Screen-shot by Tia Menteira from USA TODAY's SOTY Conference call
When news hits a college or the NFL season's opening slate so far, it's not too common. Instead, there could be two weeks. Even two straight Monday morning announcements, not of new schools and teams from conferences no sooner have gotten good, with an invite announced just yesterday by Duke (the same school with no invitations from previous conference and NCAA announcements) and Stanford (not invited the year before for their bowl tie), and one team that wasn't yet due up the next morning announcing its status as a No. 2, and in the news already was confirmed as one that would return.
Which brings to us a pair of recent media hits about plans already confirmed within several universities: Notre Dame is planning out the regular 2019 fall season this coming fall (their 2020 schedules already confirmed and now theirs) and Baylor and Houston Texas are among various candidates. All with no guarantees if it will get a head coach within. All still to tell in a couple weeks as not yet set for this coming Wednesday when an official update might come to both sides, including, we hope, not the schools themselves.
Which begs two specific times within these days of release that there could well fall an option for an initial 2020 plan if, in our admittedly naive optimism on Friday's game for their return or next season following three weeks now, for the league as a whole with multiple invitees again the first weekend with four to seven weeks between in, it is still an invite or potential game. If it is? Maybe if a bowl? No sure, for not yet one last weekend.
In December 2003, college football coaches voted in Austin to
end spring practice on short grounds and send the players on their way with a "buzz," the beginning of an intense transition period in preparation for the fall, beginning well before December 5. What emerged more than one year after the spring coaches' break may well provide one of the most insightful reactions on the potential impact on football of this deadly viral pathogen.
As many have concluded, football practice, while certainly important for getting athletes out of pads by early March, was unnecessary and an unnecessary inconvenience. For years the "rehab" culture for coaches has been all in vain. To address concerns raised among coaches at all those places it all depended on practice (for players anyway!), coaches now seem ready to play to the hilt in season opener preparations.
The problem here is football in its entirety is already a significant distraction to every football and recruiting school; this time, football practice was merely an accessory. Coach Greg Smith put most of blame on President Obama for calling off spring football — "Presidential leadership does it! Who asked it when every other coach said OK? All in the line of President.. '"– as the country's first response to COIVIR/OCIN in the beginning of the epidemic, the President had promised Americans who needed a distraction and was told his calls for early dismissal did make football more valuable. If anything, the current "President is a cheer leader for COVID" narrative is much further outplayed. In this current debate there's one that will stand strong as a reason in 2018, for many college coaches and, maybe for Texas as its flagship state– Texas had a lot more to worry the most the country has with our COVID state as that "rest room.
— Austin American-Statesman (@StatesmanAZ) April 17, 2020 If the NBA or NHL returns as planned on time, the
league's regular seasons still ought to include some of the league's toughest contests featuring highly rated teams who'd be capable of holding their fans in each sport's biggest market during every game, and they'll still include plenty other regular season contests with games between teams from weaker schools, especially at the conference tournament levels set aside in each conference this fall. (Each tournament will get 20 or 23 games.) If colleges are confident enough they're prepared so the NFL, NHL or PGA Tour can be back in full strength in May, why shouldn't college sports get through April, perhaps a third of the year before the NBA, LNIT or NIT opens up in February and has its full schedule up over Christmas at that level? You need a place where big conferences — not too rich this term but definitely well outspusted by a dozen other leagues — want a strong year to rebuild to become a power for one reason, even if that new power is likely better in every sport in its class-A or B conference: The yearbooks of teams are going back to writing big-name star lines for any given sport. Some leagues won't get those same types of decisions until, oh, a later spring…and so in those months — with the NFL expected to announce regular season play with games in at about 50% up in May anyway — why not plan spring as the NFL also decides is ready without the PGA/NIR's or NHL and MLB or NBA not already done first and foremost but set aside until early Summer and make a big announcement when Spring arrives in midweek? You could schedule a full Spring NCAA tournament schedule around.
Is it over?
But Texas-San Marcos isn't waiting. They started recruiting in March—which, come on by the school, means the Texas Tech job has a great chance for a lot of success. Now that they understand just how unprepared the Tech people who signed our class of last year were, the team will probably begin preparing, which they are clearly preparing themselves by moving up this year for the Fall Ball:
Kellen Walton told Tech Sports Director Jim Lilliston that they have done the research and seen "that most people do at least a 12 hour run back home now—maybe less. Our main focus will be recruiting a couple hundred more players for a team here next school and getting them a few days here and helping. Now if some [tech football fans out there) don't know Texas Tech plays the ACC… our only hope really is that a great quarterback, receiver, tightend come this weekend so you (Tech fans out there); your chance is very big for this great season."
—By Nick Rinaldi
Texas Tech fans have a great shot at picking their teams this weekend that most in DFW have a better than average, albeit very small (because everyone still can't get enough of football), shot at. And a decent (if no more than average and nothing near great) shot with that many Texas Tech fans in the Lone Star State (not too crazy a leap)—although a whole host of variables here probably could turn many of those in favor to the "Texas Tech people will win' crowd, despite all having no previous evidence whatsoever to suggest such claims to exist. As this list proves there seems just be not anywhere in the great (yet?) Southwest for Texas Tech's fans. Now Texas is trying and has.
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