The football team had their first situational scrimmage of the spring. This is similar to the practice mode on EA Sports NCAA Football 2004 (I know it is 2007, but I like how fast Reggie is in the 2004 version. It makes the triple option very dangerous/easy.). The offense lines up in the red zone, at the goal line, does the 2 minute drill, etc. There is none of that kickoff nonsense. Fran was "reasonably pleased with how it went." That is reasonably good news. It was nice to see the tighends get some work done. Fran noted that, "using [Joey and Martellus] in the passing game is a really good option for us." I am not a football scholar, but base on how little they get the ball it must be very difficult to use the tightend. But why? Is it hard to find a guy the of the right size/skill set? Does it take too much time for their routs to develop? Is the QB trying to throw to a side where he has just lost a blocker? To me it seems like a no brainer. Block, block, run your pattern. 8 yards every time. How do you defend against that? At the very least you eliminate 1 person on the defense, and if a route is not run you are up a blocker. Someone straighten me out on this.


Both the baseball team and softball team bounced back after 1st game losses. The boys cleaned up their defense (7 errors in the 1st game) and took the next two games from Nebraska to win the series, 8-5 (3 errors) and 8-7 (2 errors). The girls won the 2nd game 9-4 to split the series against #3 OU.