LAWRENCE, Kansas -- It's called "Perfect Discipline," and it's one of the most stressful things I've witnessed at a football practice. It's part calisthenics, part memory game, part Simon Says, and every Kansas practice this spring ended with it. A coach would communicate a specific set of commands -- always slightly different -- to a player of the staff's choosing, and the player would have to communicate it to his teammates. Everyone would have to do a certain number of them correctly within a certain time, or the entire team had to do extra conditioning.
It's a drill that encapsulates everything about Lance Leipold and his coaching style.