Read Swedes post below.....Explain to me why practicing at South Farm is so great. I mean, it’s a three minute bus ride away. Y’all act like they bused them to Junction, Texas.
So, we opened camp on the South Farm?
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It was vintage Spurrier. He was sending a message to his team: "we can't even get a damn play off so I'm taking a safety on third down because y'all can't get your 5hit together."
I’m always amused at the hard on a lot of y’all get for a coach yelling at the ref. That was the weirdest complaint I always found with Leach. He didn’t care enough because he didn’t go Woody Hayes on the referee. Will Muschamp did a lot of yelling at refs and you see where that got him.
I was apart of the grounds crew for the recplex when I was at state. We didn't exactly have a great budget to do anything. It's just a big field with okay grass and nothing else. It did got hot as hell out there in summer but I enjoyed working out there especially during the summer semester and fall.
Kids these days just have it too easy. Back in my day we did 2 four hour practices a day.
I think ours were about 3 hrs ea 2x/day in late 70's and the water situation was insane. A few mouthfuls was a treat, that was it. Then the coaches would pass around bottles and have it pouring out their mouths all down the fronts of their shirts and on their faces and heads. Then they have us a handful of salt tablets and we did it again in the afternoon. It wasn't but a couple years later they started pretty much unlimited water. I really liked most of my coaches but I had a couple that were ridiculous with the water and I hate them till this day
We would break out into position groups for the first part of practice. Then we would get one trip to the watering trough. It was a rack that held up about 20 feet of PVC that had a hose attached at one end and a bunch of holes drilled in it. That was it for the day.
That's what ours went to a few years after I left. Before that it was just squeeze bottles and you were lucky to get a few seconds of a squirt. No way they could get away w/ it today but that's just the way it was done 45 years ago, said it made you tough!
CZA should try really hard to get tossed at least once this season. I am not sure I have ever seen it. Please do it once we are up on a nonconference foe.
The length of practice was about the same for us. We got one 2 minute break on the middle of practice and got a ice cream scoop of crushed ice. Whatever water we could get from that was it. Not sure why they hated water so much but they didn't allow water during game timeouts either. "If you want water, grab a skirt and some pom poms, they get all the water they want."
That all changed after the last 2 a day practice my senior year. One of the junior linemen went into seizures, balled up in fetal position with eyes rolled back, while waiting in the ice line. They hosed him down and put him in the bed of a pickup and drove him to the hospital. He missed the rest of the season.
+1 for mental toughness. These guys are tough or they would not be here. I think you nailed the best reason for holding practices there.
So are we his Michigan State? Stay here long enough to help us have a good season then bolt for the first team that waves money at him?
I knew his resume but everything about the guy tells me he was a linebacker and a linebackers coach. I don’t know how good this team will be but they should be tough abd toughness is integral to Mississippi State’s football identity.