Notre Dame starts spring practices today, 85 days after the 2020 season ended on New Year’s Day. These 15 spring practices start 2-3 weeks later than they would in normal times, the result of a brief winter workout pause while the Irish program navigated some positive coronavirus test results and of the logic that Notre Dame’s campus would be in a better situation, pandemic-wise, later in the spring.
With the University planning to open an on-campus vaccination center in mid-April to accommodate all students, faculty and staff, that logic has held up as much as could be hoped for.