“Stay off the ground!” bellows Ohio head coach Frank Solich.
The verbal reminders are as constant in the August air as the buzz of insects, the hum of air conditioners or the rumble of later afternoon thunderstorms.
The training camp struggle — where college football teams around the country try to get ready for the upcoming season while staying as healthy as possible — is playing out around the nation. Ask any football coach, at any level, and one of their first keys to 2016 season will be ‘We have to stay healthy.’
In the Bobcats’ camp, that means lots of work on technique, fundamentals, one-on-one drills and team portions of practice with previous little actual tackling.