Coach Toledo's Comments Following Monday's Practice
Apr 19, 2010 | Football
April 19, 2010
Overall thoughts on how practice went
"We just went though our 11th day of spring practice. We did some situational things again and one of the things we tried to do was our `coming out' offense and defense. Offensively, we have to try and make a first down and get into a position where we can punt the ball and not be too backed up. Defensively, you've got to try and keep them down in there so we make them punt out of the endzone. We threw a lot of vertical balls today, ran a lot of bootlegs and reverses, things to not only help the offense but the defense as well, and did our kickoff teams today as well."
On the retention throughout spring practice
"I think they're really doing a good job. There is so much carry-over from each day. This is really the first year that we haven't really had to change the offense or the defense. We've got the same terminology, we're doing a lot of the same things and I just think there is a lot of carry over and a lot of confidence. Again, there is a great attitude out here. The guys have worked hard and they want to win."
On having practice five times over the next six days
"I think it's pretty demanding. We won't scrimmage every day, which helps a little bit, and on Friday we'll just be in helmets prior to the last day of Spring Practice. It'll be a pretty good, physical day on Saturday. We've kind of geared it to be fast, slow, fast, slow, hit, not hit - that type of thing just to keep everyone enthused and keep everyone healthy."
On the battle today between Alex Lauricella and Devin Figaro
"There have been some big plays made out here. Alex Lauricella did a great job of jumping the slant, intercepting it and running for the touchdown. Then Devin Figaro made some really nice plays. He beat one of the corners trying to jump that slant. He beat them on what we call a slug-go where you run a slant and then go. He made a great catch in the endzone. Both of them went up for the ball and he came down with it. Devin did a really nice job on that one."
