Should conference commissioners start opting for a spring 2021 college football season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, whoever has the task of explaining such a plan to second-year University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coach Rusty Wright might need to budget some time.
Forget hours. We’re talking days or even weeks.
“You would be opening up a bunch of different questions I would have,” Wright said. “Will there be eight games or 11 games or six games? I don’t think the time frame would allow you to play a full season. Are we still going to be going through this with the coronavirus? Are we still going to be testing our players every week?
“You’re not going to have spring practice at that point, so do you give them a few days off and then go straight into summer workouts to get ready for the next season?”
Wright’s queries concerning spring football stretch to infinity and beyond and then some, and he reels them off without pausing.