Our son plans to come home for a while in May but then journey back to Laramie for the summer to take a class, pick up a summer job and participate in conditioning drills with other members of the football team. Spring practice has started at Wyoming, and this is a critical time for him. Six seniors graduated at the wide receiver position, and he sees an opportunity to prove that he can be among the successors. He's got the stuff, from my biased perspective, but Division I college football is extremely competitive, and it's difficult for me to sit in Grand Island and not know how each practice is going. At the top of my list, I worry about injuries.
Football is a brutal sport, and violent contact makes injuries inevitable.
He has managed to avoid anything serious to this point. In the meantime, he has worked hard and paid a tremendous price to get to this spring. An injury would be devastating. While I worry, my wife is making plans for her own summer. She has decided to spend May and June with my relatives in Lincoln so she can work on her doctorate at the University of Nebraska.