What were your impressions of the first training camp in Houston?

Luck: It all went well. There are not many markets or cities that can do what Houston did for us. You’ve got four college facilities (Rice, Houston, Texas Southern and Houston Baptist), and there are not many communities where that’s the case. And as nice as some of those college facilities, we also had great high school facilities. People were blown away by how nice they were. That’s all logistics, but it’s an important piece. We’re a professional league with professional players, but don’t have our own facilities like the Cowboys or Texans. I heard from multiple players that this was well organized, in the sense we had the logistics to do what we needed to do, which was practice and build these teams.

Watching the last couple of days, I thought this worked really well. Teams looked sharp. Sure, we still have some work to do, but by and large the camp went well because logistically things were put in place that allowed us to do what we wanted to do without distraction.

Will the league go back to Houston next year?

Luck: Houston might be in the only place in the country where you can pull this off. The fact that I was very familiar with the city and the local leadership was helpful, too. The driving force behind doing the centralized camp was giving teams a barometer every couple of days by practicing against each other. You need that when you start from scratch, building rosters from the first player up. That may not be the case next year.

We may have 80 percent of the team coming back from the Defenders or Wildcats or we may have 10 percent. We just don’t know. That’s one of the hardest things to predict, what kind of turnover we’ll have. If we have significant turnover, we may have to do a centralized location again. We haven’t crossed that bridge.

How did the different rules and pace of play impact the game?

Luck: I saw a play, it very well could’ve been a college kid, where a guy caught a pass, fell and wasn’t touched and got up and ran for a touchdown. That reminded me of the first NFL preseason game each year where you always see stuff like that. Guys just forget they’re not in college anymore. The one thing that was most important to me and my football folks was the 25-second clock. Plays were getting called in, communicated, they got to the line of scrimmage and the ball was getting snapped. In all four scrimmage games, we averaged 173 plays. There is going to be one or two delay of game (penalties), which isn’t the worst thing in the world. By and large, players were cognizant of the rules because they’ve been working on them since early December.

What did you think the impact will be of the multiple PAT options?

Luck: It’s my favorite diversion from the norm. I think it adds strategy to the game. It’s a fascinating question for a coach: You score a touchdown and what do you do? Do you go for 1? Do you go for 2? Do you go for 3? It depends on time of game, depends on how you score. One coach told me if you score on a defensive touchdown because of the immediate shift in momentum, he might go for 3 because he’s got a team on its heels a little bit and might want to stick the dagger. That might be the right strategy. It might be the wrong strategy. I think that’s going to be fun.

My sense is teams might start off going for 1, but maybe not. They have the data that we’ve provided them: Plays from the 2-yard line have a 50-percent success rate, plays from the 5-yard have a 30-percent success and plays from the 10-yard line have a 10-percent success rate. Anytime there’s more strategy in the game, I think it’s good. And fans like to second guess the coach.

Is there a scoring range that the league would prefer to see?

Luck: I was part of West Virginia’s first Big 12 game against Baylor as the AD and it was 70-63. It was an NFL off week and my son Andrew came to that game, and I could look over and see him shaking his head. Even quarterbacks want a defensive stop now and then. I don’t think we want that. More important than the total number of points is the closeness of the game. I think in a perfect world if you’re in the 20s – 28-24, 31-24 – those are games where you score points. Fans want defensive plays as well. I know there’s not a number we’ve targeted.