Preseason '24

[AllTimeFU]

Sounding great! Was Hall playing with the 2s mostly?

[gman84]

Watched some of yesterday’s practice, mainly special teams, punting. Williams was punting the crap out of the ball. He did the same today and his fg kicking just as strong as Astro mentioned. One thing that does stand out that Astro also mentioned is how tall our O line has become the last few years, and yes, no over weight guys. It’s hard to evaluate in these scrimmages because it’s not always 1s vs 1s. It’s more about guys getting opportunities to show their development and skill sets. As far as qbs go, I was only there 30-40 mins, nobody looked bad.
Also, Astro would have given a different evaluation if I hadn’t shown up to distract him.

[apaladin]

Thanks everyone for the updates. Hope everyone can make fanfest next week.

[AstroDin]

Sounding great! Was Hall playing with the 2s mostly?

As Gman mentioned, the rotations often mixed lineups. From what I saw, the coaches were primarily leaning on Hall, Everheart, and Croasdale. Hall played with the first team a good bit.

[AstroDin]

I forgot what I wanted to mention in my earlier post.
We do seem to be more explosive on offense. Part of this is that Hinton is so explosive.
From what I saw of Devin Hester, I believe he has similar traits.
Gman had mentioned this to me earlier. It's obvious that Joshua Harris has gained a good bit of muscle weight. He's now over 190 - I think he weighed 160 when he came to Furman.

[AllTimeFU]

It will be interesting to see if there are any noticeable changes in the rotations after the scrimmage.

[FUBeAR]

It will be interesting to see if there are any noticeable changes in the rotations after the scrimmage.

That is often the case. For example…

This one time, at band camp…no, it was football preseason camp, FUBeAR was a starting O-Lineman for the Paladins.

At the very beginning of the Monday AM practice, following the 1st Saturday scrimmage, we O-Linemen were working on alignment / stances / starts as 3 groups - 1’s, 2’s, and 3’s lined up behind each other in 3 rows. We were down on Poteat Field…now the Soccer Stadium field…and Coach Sheridan, coming from his office in the Old Gym, appeared at the top of the hill…near the visiting baseball Team’s dugout, stopped, and yelled, very, very loudly…for ALL to hear.

“COACH CALDWELL. PUT FUBeAR BACK ON THE 3RD TEAM WHERE HE BELONGS!”

Apparently FUBeAR had not performed very well the in the previous Saturday scrimmage. Subtlety about poor performance was not a hallmark of Coach Sheridan’s Coaching style.

FUBeAR learned though…no more staying out & up ALL night before a Saturday scrimmage…just is not a good plan.

[gman84]

It will be interesting to see if there are any noticeable changes in the rotations after the scrimmage.

That is often the case. For example…

This one time, at band camp…no, it was football preseason camp, FUBeAR was a starting O-Lineman for the Paladins.

At the very beginning of the Monday AM practice, following the 1st Saturday scrimmage, we O-Linemen were working on alignment / stances / starts as 3 groups - 1’s, 2’s, and 3’s lined up behind each other in 3 rows. We were down on Poteat Field…now the Soccer Stadium field…and Coach Sheridan, coming from his office in the Old Gym, appeared at the top of the hill…near the visiting baseball Team’s dugout, stopped, and yelled, very, very loudly…for ALL to hear.

“COACH CALDWELL. PUT FUBeAR BACK ON THE 3RD TEAM WHERE HE BELONGS!”

Apparently FUBeAR had not performed very well the in the previous Saturday scrimmage. Subtlety about poor performance was not a hallmark of Coach Sheridan’s Coaching style.

FUBeAR learned though…no more staying out & up ALL night before a Saturday scrimmage…just is not a good plan.

Only a good plan if there is a potential band camp experience! Maybe.

[apaladin]

I forgot what I wanted to mention in my earlier post.
We do seem to be more explosive on offense. Part of this is that Hinton is so explosive.
From what I saw of Devin Hester, I believe he has similar traits.
Gman had mentioned this to me earlier. It's obvious that Joshua Harris has gained a good bit of muscle weight. He's now over 190 - I think he weighed 160 when he came to Furman.

So what you are saying iis the defense is going to give up a lot of explosion plays even against an inexperienced offense. like FU.

[tim]

It will be interesting to see if there are any noticeable changes in the rotations after the scrimmage.

That is often the case. For example…

This one time, at band camp…no, it was football preseason camp, FUBeAR was a starting O-Lineman for the Paladins.

At the very beginning of the Monday AM practice, following the 1st Saturday scrimmage, we O-Linemen were working on alignment / stances / starts as 3 groups - 1’s, 2’s, and 3’s lined up behind each other in 3 rows. We were down on Poteat Field…now the Soccer Stadium field…and Coach Sheridan, coming from his office in the Old Gym, appeared at the top of the hill…near the visiting baseball Team’s dugout, stopped, and yelled, very, very loudly…for ALL to hear.

“COACH CALDWELL. PUT FUBeAR BACK ON THE 3RD TEAM WHERE HE BELONGS!”

Apparently FUBeAR had not performed very well the in the previous Saturday scrimmage. Subtlety about poor performance was not a hallmark of Coach Sheridan’s Coaching style.

FUBeAR learned though…no more staying out & up ALL night before a Saturday scrimmage…just is not a good plan.

Funny... The thought of Sheridan yelling the name FuBear.... I know he didn't and I know that's not what you meant but hilarious! Anyway, I dropped by there today but didn't stay. Looked like they were in shorts.

[AstroDin]

I forgot what I wanted to mention in my earlier post.
We do seem to be more explosive on offense. Part of this is that Hinton is so explosive.
From what I saw of Devin Hester, I believe he has similar traits.
Gman had mentioned this to me earlier. It's obvious that Joshua Harris has gained a good bit of muscle weight. He's now over 190 - I think he weighed 160 when he came to Furman.

So what you are saying iis the defense is going to give up a lot of explosion plays even against an inexperienced offense. like FU.

your schtick is OLD and not the least bit funny.

[apaladin]

I forgot what I wanted to mention in my earlier post.
We do seem to be more explosive on offense. Part of this is that Hinton is so explosive.
From what I saw of Devin Hester, I believe he has similar traits.
Gman had mentioned this to me earlier. It's obvious that Joshua Harris has gained a good bit of muscle weight. He's now over 190 - I think he weighed 160 when he came to Furman.

So what you are saying iis the defense is going to give up a lot of explosion plays even against an inexperienced offense. like FU.

your schtick is OLD and not the least bit funny.

True but better than the negative Nancy thread.

[MidlandsPaladin]

Football Parking passes arrived today . . . a harbinger of things to come!

Got mine, individual passes for each game like last year. Let the anticipation and excitement begin!

Has everyone else gotten parking passes? Specifically, any Gray Lot folks?

[dornb]

Football Parking passes arrived today . . . a harbinger of things to come!

Got mine, individual passes for each game like last year. Let the anticipation and excitement begin!

Has everyone else gotten parking passes? Specifically, any Gray Lot folks?

I had to email Dwight when I didn't get mine. In a couple of hours, I had an email from Houghton Flanagan. He put mine in the mail that afternoon, and I got them over the weekend.

[AllTimeFU]

Has anyone heard details on Fan Day? Will we get a good scrimmage or a practice?