Summer questions

Submitted by Todd Plate's n… on
The Denard placing 3rd thread got me excited that he and the other freshman will be arriving in less than a month. Anyone on here have extensive knowledge regarding practice during the summer? obviously they are going through S&C and i assume this is under the supervision of barwis/staff. are players allowed to use a ball at all? without coaches? not until august? any info is greatly appreciated. i hate myself for starting to follow the program this close during the spring...september cannot get here fast enough. (insert lame tate/denard speed quip here)

Tim

May 11th, 2009 at 6:16 PM ^

The players can do whatever they want without coaches. They'll also be going through the S&C program. I assume they can look at film on their own (or maybe even with coaches, a limited amount of the time), and they'll start up fall practice in August or maybe even late July (the season starts late this year, so probably August) with a couple NCAA-mandated conditioning sessions without pads, then get into full practices.

tpilews

May 11th, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^

I'd imagine they'd be able to do some sort of "individual" workouts with coaches. This would be limited to something like 3 hrs/week. I know for baseball this is true, so I gotta imagine for football, they'd be allowed some sort of workout with the coaches.

foreverbluemaize

May 12th, 2009 at 3:23 PM ^

That is a good series of questions. My question though is what do we do with all of this time between now and the start of fall prctice. I mean can we really keep reading the same D Rob is really fast articles. I love this time of year for the ability to do things outside,like camping, and fishing, campfires, and all of the other things that we can do in the summer but really I'd give it all up for a couple more months of UM football. I feel like I just need a fix to get me by.