Spring Football Reports

[mugtang]

Have you started?  When’s your spring game.  How are things looking heading into the summer?   Should we all prepare our collective anuses?

[Wyobraska]

Verizon has better coverage in my area.

[mugtang]

14 minutes ago, Wyobraska said:

Verizon has better coverage in my area.

Damn it.  

[Headbutt]

 

Spring Practice - Fort Collins, Colorado

Who knows. 

Practices closed to most public and all media.  Most of the returning starters are out with one injury or another.  All the reports are just non-commital blurbs from the state run media.  So far we know that the O-line and D are learning a whole new system and starting to pick it up.  Coach is liking the effort.  It sounds like our depth is getting a lot of work though.  Much more than in a typical spring.  The silence is deafening and maybe worriesome though.  Hopefully the starters are learning the system from the sideline.  Carta-Samuels was in attendance yesterday, but just as an observer with some ex-players.  Good to hear he's found the campus.

Closed scrimmage Saturday.  I'm hoping to glean something from the stats, although I doubt they'll really mean much.

Spring game is 4/21.  I expect it to be sloppy all things considered.  I'd love to be pleasantly surprised, although I don't think it will actually have much bearing on predicting the season based on which players will be available on 4/21.

Yes Pokes, 4/21.  We are all busy on 4/20.

[Fowl]

SDSU has been done for a month.

[easybronc]

Boise has had secret practices all winter.

[HawaiiMongoose]

UH football spring practice notes posted by beat writer Stephen Tsai on his Honolulu Star-Advertiser blog:

Tuesday 4/3

The defense won the day, Nick Rolovich said following today’s fourth practice of spring training. 

The Warriors returned to the practice field after a one-week hiatus because of UH’s spring break. 

UH’s secondary looked sharp. Second-year freshmen Damario Mclean and Donovan Dalton made athletic breakups. Manu Hudson-Rasmussen also played well at nickel.

In team drills, Cole McDonald led two drives at quarterback. Jeremy Moussa, Kyle Gallup and Justin Uahinui each directed one. 

“There’s not a ton of separation right now,” Rolovich said of the quarterback competition. “That could be a good thing. That could be a bad thing.”

But Rolovich praised the quarterbacks’ development in understanding coverages and making decisions during the installation of the run-and-shoot offense. 

“I appreciate their effort in learning it and trying to learn it,” Rolovich said.

Thursday 4/5

Once again, the defense looked good — really good — during today’s fifth practice of spring training. 

In team drills, Donovan Dalton had a pick-6, Damario Mclean almost had an interception covering a slant route, and Penei Pavihi had a mouthpiece-loosening hit. 

But the offense did get the last word: Jason-Matthew Sharsh caught a 44-yard scoring pass from Cole McDonald. 

The folks on the sideline are impressed with: 

> Quarterback Jeremy Moussa’s arm strength. 

> Wideout Isaia Leeth’s size (6-4, 190), strength and route-running. He has wideout’s speed but tight end’s toughness. 

> Safeties Jay Dominique and Kalen Hicks.

[Subcanis]

Half the team is injured.  No QB.  Lots of position changes.  

[Lester_in_reno]

the Nevada team hiked  up  Peavine peak.

[NWRebel]

We are into Spring practices.  I'm hoping the new DC is working on things we haven't seen before, like a defense. 

[mondego]

USU is having their spring game tomorrow on what is projected to be a really wet day. 

Others would know how things have been going thus far better than I, but we mainly keep hearing the defense is several steps ahead of the offense right now. I really like our D-line, but it remains to be seen how our LBs and secondary will be since we lost a couple of big time contributors. 

SB Nation did the best spring write-up on the Aggies that I've seen: https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/4/5/17183924/utah-state-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster

[madmartigan]

USU Defense: 

Return 9 of 11 starters on defense including all starters from the front seven and most of the two deep. Big question marks are corner and safety as we lost an all American corner and a decent safety. I think the defense will be stout and may even be elite, depending on coaching.

USU Offense:

Returns 8 of 11 starters including the entire OL plus most of the two deep and the QB. RB is the biggest ?. We haven't had a good offense or RB in years, so who the hell knows.

Going to spring game tomorrow and should have more to report.  

[UofNPackFan]

2 hours ago, Lester_in_reno said:

the Nevada team hiked  up  Peavine peak.

I am not liking our odds of a successful season if only 5 players and a OC go hike Peavine.  What happened to hiking Tahoe?

Also, I write this jokingly. 

[SleepingGiantFan]

13 hours ago, Fowl said:

SDSU has been done for a month.

And the consensus of those who managed to attend is that if Chapman gets hurt, opposing defensive coordinators will continually put 11 in the box.

[Fowl]

27 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

And the consensus of those who managed to attend is that if Chapman gets hurt, opposing defensive coordinators will continually put 11 in the box.

They already do that against Chapman...

[battle.borne]

2 hours ago, Lester_in_reno said:

the Nevada team hiked  up  Peavine peak.

These are the QBs.

[SleepingGiantFan]

2 hours ago, Fowl said:

They already do that against Chapman...

OK, then 11 in the box all of whom have a hand on the ground.

[SleepingGiantFan]

2 hours ago, battle.borne said:

These are the QBs.

Is the 30-year-old in the middle with the salt and pepper beard a transfer from BYU?

[madmartigan]

7 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

OK, then 11 in the box all of whom have a hand on the ground.

Is Chapman still your starting QB? SDSU can surely find better QBs in their own back yard. 

[SJSUMFA2013]

We still suck