I had a chance to chat with some folks who are more “in the know” on this stuff than the rest of us. They made a number of very good points as to why this spring was a bad idea.bobcat99 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:06 pmI wish the Cats were playing too for selfish reasons, but realistically, I think come fall season we will be glad they didn’t.
We don’t have the ability to practice indoors well. There would be injuries frequently. Comparing spring practice to spring games is missing a lot, if we’re honest. It’s not the same intensity. A spring season in Montana was always going to be a mistake, and a loss of money.
- The players would just be coming back in the middle of January from a Christmas break where they got lazy and out of shape and then have to try to be ready to play football in one month. This is very different from when the entire team is together in the summer doing player run practices and training for months then going into a fall ball season for about a month long to get even better prepared for the first games
- in that one month you’d have to try to practice outside to get everyone ready, and with our Montana conditions and temperatures that is extremely difficult to do
- those factors alone increase the risk of injury quite a bit
- The limited capacity of fans in the stands especially with the overreach in Bozeman from health officials would have been a large financial burden and loss overall for the university
- The overall cost of testing every single week would still be quite high as well when you’re dealing with 100 kids
These were just a few of the things that came up that I don’t think a lot of people think about. I for one am very glad we’re waiting til Fall.