A Tuesday Practice as a Blue Knight Receiver
For the first couple of weeks of training camp here at Urbana University, each day had a new theme to it. We had a new offensive play put in each day until training camp was over. My head was swarming with each day’s worth of plays and I felt overwhelmed with everything I had to remember on offense. This was a drastic change since in high school I only had to remember seven pass plays and four run plays. But now that I was taking a step up to college football, those seven pass plays and four run plays turned into a playbook the size of a college textbook. I finally was able to understand the playbook right in time for regular practices to begin. Training camp finished the day before classes began and now we were out of the hell days, which we called two-a-days, and on to the work days leading to our game that Saturday. Now that our practices kept the same theme everything we did seem mundane. As wide receivers at Urbana University we have the heaviest workload and the most to accomplish during practice, especially on Tuesday practices. Tuesday’s practices are the longest practice of the week and we get to tackle each other. This is how you go through a Tuesday practice as a Blue Knight receiver.
Before you even can start practice you must of course get dressed. So after we get dress in full pads, the team meets on the field where we split into our different positions groups and go through early outs. During early outs receivers do a little warm up lap, and then we line up in front of Coach Doster where he throws two balls at each of us in the line. We have to catch both balls and have them tucked, one in each arm, before we are finished. Once we accomplish this task, we give the balls back to the coach and head to the end of the line. After we finish that drill we work on the over the shoulder drill. During this drill one receiver at a time waits until Coach Doster, says go then we sprint forward, where then he...