This month, Michigan, Ohio State and Washington will host juniors. It has worked well in basketball. Spring practice, Texas-style Texas coach Mack Brown starts spring practice in little more than two weeks. That is earlier than most, but Brown gives some solid reasons why. If a player gets hurt, he has more time to heal.
Coaches have an extra month to recharge their batteries for the next season.
And the players finish their football work in time to enjoy spring with their fellow students. Brown tried the schedule at North Carolina and liked it. However, his successor at Carolina, Carl Torbush, moved spring practice back so that it will end in mid-April. Torbush wanted to guarantee quarterback Ronald Curry, who is also a guard on the basketball team, two weeks of spring practice. Torbush is a basketball optimist.