Texas head coach Tom herman Now he has to deal with Longhorns, he has an open date for September 12. The SEC going to a 10-game conference-only schedule has taken the return of a scheduled home-and-home series with the LSU off the board and it will probably be a while before Texas closes in on the Bayou Bengals. .
A 12-game schedule is said to be Big 12’s preferred programming model. Even when LSU abandons the schedule, there is a way the Longhorns can get it to work, but it will require some maneuvering by the powers that be in the Forties. Acres.
Big 12 is usually not proactive at all. As the last Power Five league to make a scheduling decision, Texas must make it and review the schedule.
And there is a way it can work and 12 games can be programmed in a COVID-19 world.
Start by moving the first game to August 29. Ideally the opponent won’t be the USF, but Herman’s team will have an additional week to evaluate the student-athletes and discover what ramifications a game could have in player safety that would be enormous, to say the least.
Who would Texas play with in Week 0 in this scenario? If I’m Herman, I would meet Chris Del Conte and see if at least the USF game can be moved to September 12 (USF has an open date that week due to the cancellation of their scheduled game with Bethune-Cookman since MEAC postponed soccer in the fall.)
That would give the Longhorns time to judge the COVID-19 situation in the state of Florida to see if it is best to have a group of student athletes from a hot spot for the virus on a plane play in Austin. It is possible (due to travel concerns and not wanting to risk jeopardizing the integrity of the conference games in the coming weeks due to the possible spread of the virus) Texas could pay USF the $ 1.9 million contracted not to play the game or move it to a future date in the future.
Since UTSA lost a regular-season game against Grambling on September 19 due to the SWAC decision to postpone fall sports, Del Conte should call UTSA athletic director Lisa Campos to see if he is a head coach. year. Jeff Traylor and the Roadrunners would want to travel on IH-35 in late August to play a game. UTSA is not only in the University of Texas system (meaning UT would have a much better idea of the protocols the Roadrunners are working with on a daily basis), but the unknown variable of a game’s impact on potential spread COVID-19 seems much more controllable with UTSA as an opponent, as the UT boss would, in theory, have a much better idea of what is happening in San Antonio compared to Tampa, Florida.
In addition to the intrigue, UTSA is expected to miss a $ 1.4 million payday due to the SEC decision as the Roadrunners were due to play LSU at Baton Rouge on September 5.
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Those things add up to Texas playing a homey schedule outside of the conference where it would house UTSA (August 29), USF (September 12) and UTEP (September 19) in this hypothetical worst-case scenario if Big 12 hits green light for teams to schedule three games outside of the conference. No matter what the conference decides, the Longhorns need to have their ducks lined up and follow the lead of Kansas (added an Aug. 29 game with southern Illinois) and Oklahoma (the Missouri State game moved to Dec. 29). August), no Don’t wait for Big 12 to make a decision regarding the structure of their respective schedules outside of the conference.
