The WKU football team has been sharpening up in spring practice for the past two weeks as they get ready for the upcoming season, and new Head Coach Mike Sanford has been employing some new techniques with his new squad.
One such strategy is lessening focus on keeping the practice scripted as it has been in the past at WKU. Instead, Sanford and company let the Hilltoppers simply “play football” as they let different situations come up organically.
“Sometimes as coaches, we want to just have periods that are segmented,” Sanford said after practice on Friday. “But when you play the game and actually move the ball, a lot of those situations come up naturally, and players start to condition themselves mentally for those situations.