The mini-camp that wasn’t

Remember the mini-camp that the San Jose Earthquakes were supposed to have this offseason? Evidently, it never happened, as the team ran into a stipulation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that indicates that players must get a minimum number of consecutive weeks off.

The Quakes trained right up to the Thanksgiving holiday, and then went their separate ways in the expectation that they would get back together soon. But when the team was made aware of the CBA provision, it was decided that the mini-camp would be shelved.

“We met with the senior players on the team and they felt that coming in for a week or two wouldn’t really make much of a difference,” said Quakes’ general manager John Doyle.

Of course, one reason for getting the team back together would be to monitor the status of several players whose season was ended by injury. But from that group, only Andre Luiz would have been able to train.

Doyle added that Chris Wondolowski and Cornell Glen are making good progress in their rehabilitation from their respective knee injuries, but the prognosis for defender Jason Hernandez isn’t as encouraging. After undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligaments and a fracture in his left ankle, there is now concern that Hernandez may not be ready by the time training camp opens in late January.

“It’s kind of a weekly conversation [with trainer Bruce Morgan],” said Doyle. “Hernandez could be back by then, but he might not be.”