I suppose that that could happen, but everything, everywhere seems to be going in the opposite direction. Tom Brady and Belichick were trying to get to the point that every offensive concept was a one-word play call/symbol/signal. This is what most coaches dream of having, yet still having the ability to call a full panoply of plays. Based on everything that everyone associated with the program was saying this spring, the focus is to move to making everything simpler, and to perfect the details. Obviously, they'd be better off with the spring practices, but as far as prep for the fall, I suspect that there will be on-going conversations about better, simpler, more streamlined ways to call and combine plays, as well as the details in running them. If Austin didn't think that the O-linemen's strengths were utilized last year, they have plenty of time now to strip it down, rebuild it, rename it, and push it out digitally to the players for them to digest. It's not ideal for us in that Farniok was shifting positions, and we were moving at least 1 new starter into the O-line to replace him at Rt-OT, but at least we're loaded with returning offensive players, including the whole O-line. It's a lot easier to go from the white board--the theoretical--to the field when they already have a lot of experience in what you've been doing.
All told, I have to think that missing spring practices will hurt a team like Purdue a lot more than it will hurt us for that first game. We might even look back and think that Frost actually caught his first break in all of this. Purdue will probably be pretty salty by the end of the year, but we get them at the start.