The crunch of football pads colliding on a plain-like grass field in South Jordan let passersby know it was almost fall.
The Bingham High School field was being renovated, so the boys in blue made due with a slot at Elk Ridge Middle School for football camp two weeks ago.
They ran drills through painted-on lines that were impossible to see from the edge of the field. Their routes avoided the two chain-link backstops on either end of the grass.
The defending state champions would be back on their new turf field the next week, but the preparation to maintain their tradition of dominance in Utah already had started.