Post by krazykev on Apr 7, 2011 13:08:11 GMT -5
Fans will be allowed to tailgate
Contact: Brian Holloway SID
GREENSBORO, April 7, 2011 – The task of rebuilding the North Carolina A&T football program will start with the players who are on campus today. Those players will participate in the annual Spring Game at Aggie Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m.
It will be a day full of Aggie Athletics. Fans attending the football game will be allowed to tailgate. Tailgating must be conducted in the A4 parking lot (behind the jumbotron) because of the press
box construction on the front side of Aggie Stadium. A North Carolina A&T baseball game at War Memorial Stadium will also be in action as the Aggies face Bethune-Cookman in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
During Saturday’s football game, the offense will face the defense. The offense can produce points by traditional means – touchdowns, field goals and extra points. Defense can score six points if a turnover results in a touchdown. The Aggies ‘D’ also gets one point for forcing a punt, two points for not allowing the offense to produce a first down during a drive and three points for making the offense turn the ball over.
Saturday’s game will mark the 15th practice conducted during a spring period where there have been 54 players participating. Until this point, the Aggies have not signed anyone for the 2011 season. First-year head coach Rod Broadway would rather see the Aggies’ numbers at 90 participants at this point in the year. Therefore, as the season approaches, he and his staff are being creative in how they approach the coming months.
“Right now, we don’t have the scholarship numbers to be where we need to be at this time,” said Broadway. “We may have to accept about 25 walk-ons to get us to the number of bodies we need to be effective. Once we get there, we’re going to have to coach up what we have to the best of our ability.”
First-team All-MEAC running back Mike Mayhew is an upside for the Aggies. The Aggies will sit the 1,000-yard rusher for Saturday’s Spring Game, but his presence in the fall will give the Aggies an offensive weapon to build around. The quarterback position was an enormous issue for the Aggies a year ago. Expected 2010 starter Lewis Kindle sustained a season-ending injury before the first game, which complicated things for the Aggies offensively. He has practiced throughout the spring, and has competed against Terrence Webb and Ricky Lewis for snaps.
A bigger interest on Saturday may be the Aggies defense. A lack of size is a concern for the new staff. How they combat the size disadvantage during the season could give an indication of how
successful the Aggies will be in 2011.
-www.ncataggies.com-
Here are my pics from Spring Practice
admin.xosn.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?PALBID=397431&DB_OEM_ID=24500
Contact: Brian Holloway SID
GREENSBORO, April 7, 2011 – The task of rebuilding the North Carolina A&T football program will start with the players who are on campus today. Those players will participate in the annual Spring Game at Aggie Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m.
It will be a day full of Aggie Athletics. Fans attending the football game will be allowed to tailgate. Tailgating must be conducted in the A4 parking lot (behind the jumbotron) because of the press
box construction on the front side of Aggie Stadium. A North Carolina A&T baseball game at War Memorial Stadium will also be in action as the Aggies face Bethune-Cookman in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
During Saturday’s football game, the offense will face the defense. The offense can produce points by traditional means – touchdowns, field goals and extra points. Defense can score six points if a turnover results in a touchdown. The Aggies ‘D’ also gets one point for forcing a punt, two points for not allowing the offense to produce a first down during a drive and three points for making the offense turn the ball over.
Saturday’s game will mark the 15th practice conducted during a spring period where there have been 54 players participating. Until this point, the Aggies have not signed anyone for the 2011 season. First-year head coach Rod Broadway would rather see the Aggies’ numbers at 90 participants at this point in the year. Therefore, as the season approaches, he and his staff are being creative in how they approach the coming months.
“Right now, we don’t have the scholarship numbers to be where we need to be at this time,” said Broadway. “We may have to accept about 25 walk-ons to get us to the number of bodies we need to be effective. Once we get there, we’re going to have to coach up what we have to the best of our ability.”
First-team All-MEAC running back Mike Mayhew is an upside for the Aggies. The Aggies will sit the 1,000-yard rusher for Saturday’s Spring Game, but his presence in the fall will give the Aggies an offensive weapon to build around. The quarterback position was an enormous issue for the Aggies a year ago. Expected 2010 starter Lewis Kindle sustained a season-ending injury before the first game, which complicated things for the Aggies offensively. He has practiced throughout the spring, and has competed against Terrence Webb and Ricky Lewis for snaps.
A bigger interest on Saturday may be the Aggies defense. A lack of size is a concern for the new staff. How they combat the size disadvantage during the season could give an indication of how
successful the Aggies will be in 2011.
-www.ncataggies.com-
Here are my pics from Spring Practice
admin.xosn.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?PALBID=397431&DB_OEM_ID=24500
No letters of intent players?.. i hope it works.. I hope it works.. Small defense?.. Laws of physics?... Hmmmm... All I can say is Get some Love and motivation in and among the players to be a TEAM and not Individuals who are just playing... 