Preseason Prep as a College Football Coach

Video Transcript

"Preseason, which is basically, everybody's excited. All the players, coaches, everybody's first chance legally to come together is in the summertime for what everybody calls two-a-days. Preseason is a long, usually, two and a half to three week, what I would call grind. It's a chance for the newcomers to get in, to get acclimated to the players that are on campus, the veterans, and it's a deal now the NCAA is limited to, you can't have consecutive two-a-day practices. So you might have on a Monday, two practices, come back on a Tuesday with one practice, and you'll continue all the way through camp. It's a long day, long hours, but again there's excitement in the air because it's a start of a new football season. Coaches and players will live in the dorms, you'll have breakfast, lunch; basically be together for two and a half or three weeks. Some levels, in the lower levels, you might have an opponent where you'll scrimmage. Usually at the 1-AA levels and 1-A levels, you won't have anybody to scrimmage; you'll basically scrimmage yourselves maybe two or three times throughout camp. But hopefully you get through two-a-days pretty healthy, and you don't have to play a lot of freshman. Hopefully most of those guys can red-shirt, where they'll just get acclimated to the program itself, and then once they finish their freshman year, they don't play and they'll have four years to do that after. But a lot of places, they'll starter play freshman because they're great players. Long story short, preseason is a grind. It's exciting, but once you hit that midpoint through preseason, you can't wait until that first Saturday in September to get going."