Could spring football be the next casualty? Some coaches believe so.

College football is evolving. The advent of NIL and the transfer portal altered the way rosters are constructed and maintained. Change is the current constant for the modern landscape of college football. That’s probably a good thing considering the sport remained chained to outdated beliefs about labor. As the game moves towards a model resembling professionalism, another casualty could be spring football.

Putting together the summer magazine provided me with an interesting trip across the state with a stop at each of the 12 FBS programs in Texas to visit with coaches and players. Sure, most of the talk focused on the 2022 season, but conversations naturally detoured into the current situation in college athletics. One of under-the-radar themes of my visits was the emerging hardship of conducting the old-school 15-pracitce and a spring game spring schedule.