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Football camps open for business
By ROBERT AVERY
By 9:45 a.m., Chris Bussey was the district leader for head football coaches with the sweatiest shirt.
His navy blue shirt had turned an even darker blue over 75 percent of his Sam Rayburn shirt as he guided the Texans through their first important day of fall drills.
Pasadena also elected to hold practice in the morning while camps like Memorial elected to wait for the sun to begin going down before putting on the helmets for the first day of practice.
No matter the time of day, it still felt like August, although some cloud cover in the morning did help matters. Because it’s is August, the opening four days of drills will be conducted with a minimum amount of football gear so players can become acclimated to the heat and humidity. On Friday, teams can begin workouts in the full gear as they work towards their respective scrimmages next week.
But for now, the camps sought to see what was retained from spring drills in May and go from there.
“Our practice went really well,” new Pasadena High School head football coach Jeff Ganske said. “Our kids need to eat a little more practice. They ran out of gas. It’s hot and they need a little more energy.”
The Eagles at the sub-varsity levels weren’t at 100 percent attendance because of physical forms not completed yet. A player can’t participate in athletics unless a physical form is on file with the school or school district.
Rather than test the troops on what they’ve retained from the spring, Ganske just elected to begin on Page 1 and go from there as quickly as possible.
“We’re going to start from scratch and we’re going to take baby steps,” Ganske said. “We’re going to get most of our base stuff in and then on Friday we’ll start again but with the pads on,” Ganske said.
Memorial, on the heels of last year’s exciting season, trumpeted its return to the practice field with a vigorous workout. Members of the coaching staff emphasized the sideline signs that will be seen on Friday nights. Head coach John Snelson tested his group on that very same subject at times during Monday’s practice.
If Bo Snelson, the district’s leading rusher last year, had any off-season rust on him, there wasn’t much. The senior had the look of a Maverick ready to get after it under the lights.
But time is still on everyone’s side for the time being.
A Sam Rayburn assistant coach’s comment to a player seemed to sum up this first day of workouts for all the camps.
“It’s only Day 1. We’ll get better,” he said. That is indeed the hope and wishes of all as the 2008 football season is officially right around the corner.
His navy blue shirt had turned an even darker blue over 75 percent of his Sam Rayburn shirt as he guided the Texans through their first important day of fall drills.
Pasadena also elected to hold practice in the morning while camps like Memorial elected to wait for the sun to begin going down before putting on the helmets for the first day of practice.
No matter the time of day, it still felt like August, although some cloud cover in the morning did help matters. Because it’s is August, the opening four days of drills will be conducted with a minimum amount of football gear so players can become acclimated to the heat and humidity. On Friday, teams can begin workouts in the full gear as they work towards their respective scrimmages next week.
But for now, the camps sought to see what was retained from spring drills in May and go from there.
“Our practice went really well,” new Pasadena High School head football coach Jeff Ganske said. “Our kids need to eat a little more practice. They ran out of gas. It’s hot and they need a little more energy.”
The Eagles at the sub-varsity levels weren’t at 100 percent attendance because of physical forms not completed yet. A player can’t participate in athletics unless a physical form is on file with the school or school district.
Rather than test the troops on what they’ve retained from the spring, Ganske just elected to begin on Page 1 and go from there as quickly as possible.
“We’re going to start from scratch and we’re going to take baby steps,” Ganske said. “We’re going to get most of our base stuff in and then on Friday we’ll start again but with the pads on,” Ganske said.
Memorial, on the heels of last year’s exciting season, trumpeted its return to the practice field with a vigorous workout. Members of the coaching staff emphasized the sideline signs that will be seen on Friday nights. Head coach John Snelson tested his group on that very same subject at times during Monday’s practice.
If Bo Snelson, the district’s leading rusher last year, had any off-season rust on him, there wasn’t much. The senior had the look of a Maverick ready to get after it under the lights.
But time is still on everyone’s side for the time being.
A Sam Rayburn assistant coach’s comment to a player seemed to sum up this first day of workouts for all the camps.
“It’s only Day 1. We’ll get better,” he said. That is indeed the hope and wishes of all as the 2008 football season is officially right around the corner.
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