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Defensive end Carter Coughlin was more bold.
“I think we are going to shock some people, wake some people up,” the junior from Eden Prairie said.
Coughlin said his confidence was born, in part, during players-only drills this summer. A year ago, the Gophers were still trying to get acclimated to the “controlled chaos” of Fleck’s high-tempo practices, but after with full season and two sets of spring practices, Coughlin said the team is catching on.
“The captains’ practice as a whole moved a lot faster than it had in the past,” Coughlin said. “When you look at how we ran practice last year, that is what we tried to mimic in captains’ practice. Obviously, we don’t do it as well as having coach Fleck leading us, but we got as close to it as we could.”
Coughlin said upperclassmen better understand the schemes and can pass them onto freshmen, many of whom are expected to play for one of the youngest teams in college football this fall. Sixty-five percent of the roster has been in the program for two years or less.
The brief experience, Coughlin said, allowed them to break off into position groups and team work during summer workouts.
“We will run through different calls and run through different checks as a defense,” Coughlin said. “… We are all communicating, so all that stuff just helps build cohesion, and last year we weren’t able to do that.”
A year ago, captains’ practices included “flipping through (call sheets) and showing guys what they had to do,” he added. “But now the older guys — we are able to tell the young guys what they were supposed to do. We already knew our assignments.”
https://www.twincities.com/2018/07/...ng-to-shock-some-people-carter-coughlin-says/
“I think we are going to shock some people, wake some people up,” the junior from Eden Prairie said.
Coughlin said his confidence was born, in part, during players-only drills this summer. A year ago, the Gophers were still trying to get acclimated to the “controlled chaos” of Fleck’s high-tempo practices, but after with full season and two sets of spring practices, Coughlin said the team is catching on.
“The captains’ practice as a whole moved a lot faster than it had in the past,” Coughlin said. “When you look at how we ran practice last year, that is what we tried to mimic in captains’ practice. Obviously, we don’t do it as well as having coach Fleck leading us, but we got as close to it as we could.”
Coughlin said upperclassmen better understand the schemes and can pass them onto freshmen, many of whom are expected to play for one of the youngest teams in college football this fall. Sixty-five percent of the roster has been in the program for two years or less.
The brief experience, Coughlin said, allowed them to break off into position groups and team work during summer workouts.
“We will run through different calls and run through different checks as a defense,” Coughlin said. “… We are all communicating, so all that stuff just helps build cohesion, and last year we weren’t able to do that.”
A year ago, captains’ practices included “flipping through (call sheets) and showing guys what they had to do,” he added. “But now the older guys — we are able to tell the young guys what they were supposed to do. We already knew our assignments.”
https://www.twincities.com/2018/07/...ng-to-shock-some-people-carter-coughlin-says/
