Why Oxnard

[Coogiguy03]

Sorry I'm not from Texas, but I hear everything is BIGGER there. Is there not a location we can hold camp at, instead of having it way out in California??

I'm sure there's a field we can use nearby, what's the point?? Give me your thoughts

 

[Risen Star]

Spoken by a man who has never experienced a Texas summer.

I'd rather my team focus on football in camp rather than not dying of heat stroke.

 

[Rockport]

Texas is too hot in July and you don't want to hold your entire training camp indoors on artificial turf. Oxnard is in the 60's and 70's and outside on real grass. When it's 100 degrees outside with humidity players can't focus as well.

 

[Doomsday101]

Sorry I'm not from Texas, but I hear everything is BIGGER there. Is there not a location we can hold camp at, instead of having it way out in California??

I'm sure there's a field we can use nearby, what's the point?? Give me your thoughts

Same reason Tex Schramm had the Cowboys in Thousand Oaks California. Media attention and weather. Personally I loved it when Dallas held it at St. Edwards in Austin. I think practicing 2 a days in the heat builds endurance

 

[Doomsday101]

Texas is too hot in July and you don't want to hold your entire training camp indoors on artificial turf. Oxnard is in the 60's and 70's and outside on real grass. When it's 100 degrees outside with humidity players can't focus as well.

Jimmy did not mind. I was attending the camps at St Edwards and it was hot as hell but Jimmy drove them hard and got those teams in shape and focused.

 

[erod]

110-degree heat indexes on a regular basis.

And Jerry LOVES Santa Barbara, where he has a home.

 

[fivetwos]

Same reason Tex Schramm had the Cowboys in Thousand Oaks California. Media attention and weather. Personally I loved it when Dallas held it at St. Edwards in Austin. I think practicing 2 a days in the heat builds endurance

Absolutely right on all of that!

 

[erod]

Same reason Tex Schramm had the Cowboys in Thousand Oaks California. Media attention and weather. Personally I loved it when Dallas held it at St. Edwards in Austin. I think practicing 2 a days in the heat builds endurance

Players barely practice these days inside air conditioned practice fields.

Those Jimmy days at St. Edwards are over forever.

They need to change the name from Training Camp to Training Walk-through.

 

[fivetwos]

Curious enough to ask but not enough to find out on my own.....

What do the Texans do for camp?

 

[Rockport]

Jimmy did not mind. I was attending the camps at St Edwards and it was hot as hell but Jimmy drove them hard and got those teams in shape and focused.

Hard not to win when you have Troy, Emmitt, Irvin, Allen, Harper, Novaceck, Tuinei, Newton, Stepnoski, Eric Williams, Tolbert, Casillas, Maryland, Haley, Norton, Larry Brown and the rest.

 

[Doomsday101]

Players barely practice these days inside air conditioned practice fields.

Those Jimmy days at St. Edwards are over forever.

They need to change the name from Training Camp to Training Walk-through.

I don't disagree but I think it is something this team needs. You want to remove the country club atmosphere work out in the Texas Sun on 2 a days, you will find out a lot about your team and they guys you can depend on.

 

[Doomsday101]

Hard not to win when you have Troy, Emmitt, Irvin, Allen, Harper, Novaceck, Tuinei, Newton, Stepnoski, Eric Williams, Tolbert, Casillas, Maryland, Haley, Norton, Larry Brown and the rest.

When they started at St Edwards they were not super bowl champs they were a young and upcoming team with a lot to prove. Those camps were tough and I think built a strong foundation. Interesting people complain about camps being too easy and the country club atmosphere, there was nothing country club about those camps. One thing that always stuck with me when I attended was seeing guys starting to drag late in practice and hearing Irvin hollering, this is the 4th qrt lets go. Being able to give more when you are exhausted shows up in those late season games.

 

[Tabascocat]

110-degree heat indexes on a regular basis.

And Jerry LOVES Santa Barbara, where he has a home.

Oh, I live here too. Got an address? I might stop by to say hello, maybe get some JW Blue....

 

[erod]

I don't disagree but I think it is something this team needs. You want to remove the country club atmosphere work out in the Texas Sun on 2 a days, you will find out a lot about your team and they guys you can depend on.

Oh, they need it. They're just not allowed to do it anymore per the CBA.

 

[Rockport]

When they started at St Edwards they were not super bowl champs they were a young and upcoming team with a lot to prove. Those camps were tough and I think built a strong foundation. Interesting people complain about camps being too easy and the country club atmosphere, there was nothing country club about those camps. One thing that always stuck with me when I attended was seeing guys starting to drag late in practice and hearing Irvin hollering, this is the 4th qrt lets go. Being able to give more when you are exhausted shows up in those late season games.

I stand by my post.

 

[CowboysRule]

It's also good to get them all away from their homes so they can focus purely on football.

While it would be nice to have a team full of guys who want to win more than anything, want to be the best they can be, an be entirely into football, that's not the kind of people who are in the NFL these days. Players want to not practice, go out, and look flashy so they get attention and MONEY. It's not about the game anymore for players, it's about getting paid while putting in the least amount of effort possible.

 

[RonnieT24]

Hard not to win when you have Troy, Emmitt, Irvin, Allen, Harper, Novaceck, Tuinei, Newton, Stepnoski, Eric Williams, Tolbert, Casillas, Maryland, Haley, Norton, Larry Brown and the rest.

It also bears stating that Jimmy had the youngest team in the league when he was doing that. I guarantee you an older team would not have tolerated those conditions quite as well. I'm sure we all remember the infamous "Pickle Juice" game in the 2000 opener. That was when the Cowboys had come off a training camp in the Texas heat and to a man all the veterans said by the time the season actually started they had nothing left in the tank. I think they had actually done the usual start of training camp in Cali but had done the traditional last two weeks in Dallas and it had been brutally hot that summer.. Dave Campo apparently had not had the good sense not to get them out of the heat in those last two weeks (he was old school) and the team was spent coming into the season.

 

[erod]

Curious enough to ask but not enough to find out on my own.....

What do the Texans do for camp?

They skip it and go to massage parlors.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Has any player ever complained about practicing in Oxnard?

I would never complain about an all-expense paid business trip for a couple weeks to Oxnard, CA in July/August.

In fact, I would scratch and claw for it. Beats Ft Polk or Augusta, Ga in July.

 

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