Got to watch practice today

As part of "student appreciation" day. Anyway, here's what I saw:

I mostly watched the offense early on since a)it was more exciting watching them run plays than watching the defense run drills and b)I was closer and could see them better.

Following the usual warmups, Canada had them running hurry-up against no defense from the 10 yard line to midfield. 1s would go one way, 2s would come back the opposite way, back and forth, nonstop, fast fast fast.

This is the only time during practice we saw the offense we're likely to see in the fall. Similar stuff he did at Pitt. Lots of pre-snap movement, jet sweep, zone read, or quick throws to the sideline. With no one defending you would expect QBs to be close to 100% on their passes, which they were.

Would stood out about this practice period was they didn't operate like your typical hurry up during a game. (i.e. after the play is over, the ref is handed the ball who then spots it, and the offense sets accordingly) Today, the second the play ended (sometimes even before) a grad assistant immediately places a ball down and the offense is required to immediately get set.

In other words, they're practicing the hurry up at a faster temp then the game actually allows.

Next came 7 on 7 that only utilized one side of the field at a time (basically 2WR and 1RB vs. 3DBs) Passing from all the QBs was fairly inconsistent and there were a couple of contested balls that hit WRs hands in the endzone but couldn't pull it down. There were a few nice plays, though. Narcisse threw a laser for a nice gain, and Drake Davis made a nice move after a catch to get a TD.

Full offense went against full defense in 3rd and long situations. Nothing flashy from the offense. It was routinely 4-5 wide being a obvious passing down. Looked like 1s vs 1s and 2s vs 2s as well. Offense got the upper hand on few, defense got the upper hand on few. Alot of overthrown balls. Tolliver had an interception on a ball that hit the WR in the hands. Didn't see who dropped it.

They finished practice with a two minute drill. Now at this point I had yet to see Etling complete a deep ball to a contested receiver all practice. Just like last last year, a ton of overthrown balls, often out of bounds. On the 2nd play of the 2min drill, he floats a beauty to Drake Davis who maybe had a one step lead on Tolliver. He catches it in stride and runs the final 20 yards for a touchdown.

Thats all I got.