The NCAA ruled that all college football players get election day off to give them a chance to vote. At Duke, where many players voted absentee or early, and the Blue Devils are preparing for UNC, missing the practice time is a problem.
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00:00Well, if I thought it was more purposeful, you just hit it.
00:06Then I would be fine with it.
00:08We have worked very hard with our team to,
00:12anybody that wasn't registered is now registered.
00:15We have worked very hard.
00:16We've had our people administratively in football help them get their ballots,
00:23make sure that they are voting and have voted.
00:27So I think it's a little more showy, honestly.
00:29I'll just say it like it is, that it has purpose.
00:33Our weekly schedules are jammed anyway.
00:37And when you build Monday as your day off, we can't adjust our Tuesday to Monday
00:43because we're not gonna interfere with our guy's academic process.
00:49So it's not an ideal thing to lose and we can't pick it up later in the day.
00:54We can't change anything on Monday.
00:57So I'm not a fan of it.
01:00It sounds good, but it doesn't really serve the purpose that I think it could.
01:06That's it.
01:07I mean, we don't have a fix.
01:09And what we have to do is probably use our Sunday a little differently,
01:15just from a preparation standpoint, but it basically is costing us a day of practice.
01:21I mean, there's no other way to twist it.
01:25I had some of the players said we could go after midnight.
01:30I don't think that would be ideal.
01:32So we are where we are.