BOULDER — Colorado Athletic Director Rick George said Wednesday the Pac-12 will ask the NCAA to increase the number of hours a week football coaches can have as "instructional" time with players during a period when the coronavirus pandemic has virtually eliminated face-to-face contact.
The conference earlier this week extended its suspension of organized in-person team activities through May 31, but George noted that the timeline will be re-evaluated and reassessed on May 1.
Meanwhile, George said, the Pac-12 would like the NCAA to adjust its offseason rules for football, which currently allow eight hours per week of activity for players, including two hours of instructional time. The Pac-12 would like to see the allowed hours of instructional time increased to four "in a time when we need to better engage our student athletes," George said.
Under normal circumstances, football players' time in the offseason includes strength and conditioning as well as instructional time with coaches. But now, with most student-athletes at home — and those still in Boulder not allowed to meet for organized activities — that instructional time would be even more beneficial.
"It makes a lot of sense for us to be able to engage them more," George said, "particularly at a time when we're not able to meet with them face to face or have any activities in person."
The additional instructional time would be particularly helpful for new Colorado coach Karl Dorrell and his staff. Dorrell was hired Feb. 23, less than a month before CU's spring ball session was scheduled to begin, and he assembled his staff over the ensuing two weeks.
Soon after, on-campus classes were shut down and team activities were suspended. That meant the Buffaloes have had almost no time to meet with their position coaches and begin the process of learning the new offensive and defensive schemes. Dorrell and his staff have done their best to utilize the allowed two hours per week, but two more additional hours per week would be extremely helpful, especially with the opportunity for any kind of spring ball session still up in the air.
George said the different scenarios for some kind of spring ball session are still being studied, but all those scenarios of course depend on the coronavirus' rate of transmission and whether it can be satisfactorily contained.
"We're looking at modifications," George said. "In the best-case scenario, you're looking at June, July, August, leading up to the football season. What I think you'll see is maybe some modifications of rules and regulations during that time frame that would give coaches maybe more time to spend on instructional things where it hasn't been allowed in the past. I think you'll see some of that come out over the next few weeks or months."
As for a spring game, George said that is also completely up in the air.
"I'd love to say we're going to have a spring game, but I don't know that that will happen," he said. "But I do think there will be some modifications to the current legislation if in fact we don't have any contact with student athletes face to face until June. You'll probably see some modification of what those rules look like."
SPRING SENIOR ELIGIBILITY UPDATE: George also said CU's spring sports coaches will begin having conversations as soon as possible with seniors from this year who had their final seasons eliminated.
The NCAA issued a ruling earlier this week that will allow seniors another year of eligibility next spring (2021) without counting toward normal financial aid and squad size limitations. At Colorado, the sports that would be impacted are lacrosse, men's and women's golf, and men's and women's outdoor track.
"Some student-athletes are going to graduate," George said. "I think it's important to get that piece done first with the senior student-athletes. Some of them are going to go to work, some of them may want to come back. We'll sort that out over the next few days and weeks."
George said he hopes to move expeditiously on those decisions, but added a hard timetable has not been set. One reason CU officials would like to have an idea of how many seniors might be returning next year is that their decisions would be a part of the department's budgeting process, which begins in late April.
FALL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE: While there has been plenty of conversation in the national media about the wide variety of possible scenarios that exist for next fall's football schedule, George said it was "premature" to engage in any speculation.
"You read a lot of different things and hear a lot of different things about starting at different time frames (but)I think it's too early for us to discuss that," he said. "As we move forward, things have changed quickly in a lot of different areas. I don't know that there's a ton of discussion right now on that, but certainly as the days go on I think there will be a lot more discussion about what that looks like."
CU's 12-game regular season schedule is slated to begin Sept. 5 with a game in Fort Collins against Colorado State. The full schedule can be found here.
Contact: Neill.Woelk@Colorado.edu
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