Arkansas held its yearly football media day on August 5. The 2008 media day was the first under Bobby Petrino as the head coach of the Razorbacks.
The following are some snippets of what Bobby had to say during the day:
It was good to get started yesterday. Our coaches and our players were excited to get out on the field. Obviously, handling the heat and being able to practice as efficient as we wanted, I wasn’t as happy with the practice, but we did get a lot accomplished. When you go back and watch the video you see good things that maybe you don’t see when you’re on the field and we’re not working at the tempo that we’re working at. We’ve just got to get use to that. We’re bringing the freshmen out early about 45 minutes of individual technique so that when the vets come out and join them they know the drills and they can repeat that. It’s an opportunity for them to get caught up and compete for a position that’s why we do that. At that, I think I’ll just open it up for questions.
Oh, there’s a lot of teaching. A lot. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. There was pretty good carryover from the first practice. We’ve already basically gone through that two times already, and there was good carryover. They were communicating well up front so you knew they had an understanding of what we’re doing. I’m excited about our running backs, there’s going to be some young speed. Guys who work hard. I thought the running backs worked hard yesterday. Michael Smith did a nice job and was giving us some good leadership out there. DeAnthony Curtis and Dennis Johnson I thought showed their abilities. I think that we’ve got a chance to keep improving but we’ve got a long way to go, there’s no doubt about that.
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