With a focus on player safety, the SEC announced it will adopt recent football practice recommendations by the NCAA Sports Science Institute reducing the number of full-contact practices during the preseason, regular season, postseason and spring.
The recommendations -- which outline parameters for conducting practices throughout the year -- received unanimous support of the SEC’s athletic directors and presidents and chancellors.
In a related development, the NCAA Division I Council recently voted to restrict schools nationwide from conducting multiple contact practices a day in the preseason, eliminating two-a-day practices for student-athletes. This also was a recommendation of the NCAA Sports Science Institute and will be implemented nationwide, with schools able to begin preseason practice one week early to replace two-a-day practices.