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There is not many athletic directors more respected out there than the one at Oklahoma.
Joe Castiglione has guided the Sooners through its current age of football and has put in place championship level programs in almost every sport at Oklahoma.
There has been plenty of talk of timelines, formats and planning for the college football season. Those ideas and contingency plans have gone from rational to out-of-this-world, but Castiglione offered up where he has at with the impending college football season.
He went on play-by-play voice of Oklahoma, Toby Rowland’s, radio show again on April 23, and Castiglione was asked when a decision needs to be made on the football season.
“My view is we need to make a decision somewhere in the early to middle part of June to know whether we are going to be having football start on time or even to have football at all this fall,” he told Rowland, “I’m not sitting there and circling a date on the calendar saying it has to be this particular day, but as we followed this, I think that’s a timeframe that is reasonable. We’re not knowing what is going to happen by then, it’s hard to imagine that 10 or 15, or 20, days after that will tell us anything more. …
“… I think that is the timeframe to decide. Now, a lot of people want to say you need six weeks, seven weeks, eight weeks—I think we can figure all the tactical part out in probably less time than that. I think it’s also important for us to remember that it’s not going to be like we walk student-athletes on to the campus and boom like a light switch, they are back in shape or we are ready to start practicing at the highest level. Shoot, it might take us a week or two to figure through the medial protocols.”
Castiglione said he thinks a decision on whether students will be allowed back on campus should come in early to mid-July, but a decision on football needs to come sooner in order for planning to take place.
Oklahoma is currently scheduled to begin the 2020 season on Sept. 5 against Missouri State.