Geez...Nice Shot
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That’s what you missed if you left early and didn’t see the “young guys” practice Wednesday in the Truax Indoor Center – the freshmen and redshirts usually go about 15 minutes after the veterans have been dismissed during spring drills. What you missed was redshirt-freshman laying a perfect deep post route to for 70 yards.
“Geez, nice shot Justin,” exclaimed head coach following the play.
Graduate assistant added – “Hey, nice pass Justin Roper.” Referring to the Oregon quarterback in last year’s Civil War.
Riley hopes to see a few more "nice shots" on Friday when the team is scheduled to scrimmage at approximately 4 p.m. (practice starts at 3 p.m.)
“Friday will be a little different than last week; we’re going to actually move the ball,” Riley explained. “What will be the most different on Friday is that we are going to finish blocks and finish tackling. It’s good psychologically because you put that word scrimmage out there and younger players take a little different approach; I don’t think it’s that big of a deal for the older guys. But, for the younger guys, they approach it like it’s more competition.”
As for the younger guys, running back scored on a goal-line situation and tight end added two scores, one from and the other from . Redshirt-freshman back also scored in the 10-play 1st-and-goal drill.
More and more contact every day in practice, seemingly. was picked up on a blitzing situation by lineman that made quite an impression on the coaches and teammates.
A huge media contingent on hand Wednesday -- Cliff Kirkpatrick and Brooks Hatch from the GT, Bob Clark from the Register-Guard, Paul Buker from The Oregonian and Kerry Eggers from the Portland Tribune represented the print media. KEZI/Comcast Sports, Fox-12 and Ron Callan from KPAM 860 highlighted the electronic media. Make sure to check their blogs and upcoming features in the near future. Riley is a tentative “live” guest on KPAM 860 at 8:40 a.m. Friday.
A contributor for SI.com will be on campus Thursday to work on a feature and Ted Miller from ESPN.com will be at OSU Friday for a look at the Beavers. ESPN.com also was on campus last week for a video feature with former kicker – the piece is expected to be on-line Thursday.
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