Coverage of today:
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080615aab.html
>>On what happens in the first five days of camp: "The NCAA has an acclimatization period where they don't allow universities to have two-a-day practices during those five days to acclimatize to the external conditions that play of athletes, may it be anxiousness, weather, equipment and so forth. The first two days, the players are mandated to be in helmets only. The next two days, the players can be in a half rack, that's shoulder pads and a helmet. On the final day, the players can be in full equipment. (The NCAA) mandated and managed an acclimatization period in terms of how much work you can do in a day, physical work in a day, then also the equipment and what that work will look like. It's a great thing and a great help. It's so often the case, especially in the protocols that have come out recently, they really don't hinder us. I think that people on the outside looking in think we're full speed tackle and full speed blocking instruction every day. It's just not the case. That's what the first five days are about for us. We'll practice in the morning, allow the players some time off in the afternoon and recollect to do meetings and/or walk through situations in the afternoon. In between the morning, afternoon and evening we'll have meetings. Those meetings will always have some kind of special teams piece, team piece and some kind of position piece."<<
>>On if all the players are here that were supposed to be here: "Every player that was a veteran player is back. We had a strong summer.
Our student services center is run by Associate Athletic Director Ellen Tripp. She's a star. If you don't know her, get to know her. She's just awesome. So she runs that, and for the first time since she's been running it that there were no football players up for University discipline academically. Zero. First time. Only something bad could happen in summer school right? They were all in summer school and they did well. So they all did well and everybody is ready to go, everybody is eligible to play and ready to go."<<