A few more thoughts form the scrimmage
-Not sure if it's the interior d-line or the lack of experience from the guards, but running inside was pretty non-existent against the 1st team D. I think part of this is because Hypo/Nichlas are so good but I also think that the OL has to hold there blocks just a little longer with everything being out of the gun.
-Special teams play seemed improved, sort of. The KOR's were pretty strong. Again, a case of 1s vs. 2s? I'm not sure but either our KOR team is really good or we've got some containment issue with the KO's team. I do think that they were having the kickers kickoff a little short so that they could actually get some returns in. Both Goodman and Davis have the leg to kick pretty consistent touchbacks. Aside from Josh Smith PR, the punt coverage teams did pretty well.
-We are big and fast. It's been said here before, but this is probably the biggest and fastest team since 2002. Not ready to say since 2001 because there were some hosses on that team.
-There was some banter during the first series between Collins and Hawkins, shouting at each other from the opposite sidelines. Cody was the only QB that was not live, and he scrambled for a big gain where the D just put a hand on him but the whistle never sounded so Cody kept going. Collins started yelling over to Hawk and the Refs "What's the format here? I thought Cody wasn't live? What's the set up here?" To which Hawk replied "You see the gold jersey, you know the setup!"
-There was a play where some one (Hansen maybe) was hit along the sidelines and the refs called a late hit. Hypolite, standing on the opposite sideline starts yelling "You kidding me?! He barely touched him!" Kinda funny since it was a teammate that was hit late and out of bounds.
-Great turnout....which meant at times it was tough to see, especially when the action was right in front of us. We were at the south 40-45 yardline so unless the play was from either 30 and in, the players blocked the view. It was great to see that many people come out and watch a scrimmage. There was a buzz in the crowd. I was also standing next to Curtis Cunningham's parents. I was shocked at how small, relative to their son, they are. Dad's no bigger than 5-10 and mom might be 5-7ish and they are not big people at all. Sounds like, and not a surprise to any of us I don't think, but Curtis will redshirt barring injury.
