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We are in mid-March, and most Athletic teams in college football are about to begin their spring practice period. Some teams in the South started in February.
Although we are still living n Pandemic times, most colleges have taken proper precautions to have a "more normal" day-to-day living on campus.
And that is good. Getting back to normal makes people feel good.
Personal contact is necessary. We are humans and are social creatures.
So after a good and intense winter period of working at the gym, teams are ready to start practicing in the field.
Each football team has 15 formal practices on the field. The NCCA, which is the official league at the college level, limits the number of practices held by each team because it is interested in the safety of the players. Furthermore, they are students first, athletes second. So their priority is to take of academics first.
Of those 15 above-mentioned practices, not all of them are in full pads.
No. Just half of them are, and not all of them allow full contact. Again. It is for the protection and safety of the players.
At the end of this spring practice period, the team hosts a scrimmage. It is an open-door scrimmage in its stadium on campus. Fans, students, and media are welcome to attend. This is the way teams close their preparation period before summer. That is the reason why this scrimmage or Spring Game is so important. Coaches evaluate their players based on their performance on game day.
For fans and students, this scrimmage is a traditional festivity. Tickets are free, and before the scrimmage and after it, students and fans organize some parties and activities to support the team spirit on campus, and sponsorships are invited too to have a marketing presence in these activities.
Coaches cannot coach the players in field activities or team periods. NCCA regulations prohibit it. So during the summer, players go back to their homes. The ones that prefer to stay on campus, can lift weights at the gym and do track and field activities on their own.
Meanwhile, coaches spend most of their days recruiting or in the office, watching the film, and grading players' performance. That is the daily routine in June and July. Most of them have their vacation period during these two months, and most of them decide to go to the beach or the mountain to spend some quality time with their families because they know that, once the season starts in September, there are no days off until the end of December if the team makes the play offs or if the team is invited to a Bowl game.
