Wake Forest Completes First Day of Two-a-Days
8/13/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
Aug. 13, 2010
The Deacons practiced specific game situations, such as third down and red zone plays, in the morning, and used the evening section to spend their first significant time working on special teams.
""We're looking at a lot of different guys on special teams right now, so we have to start narrowing that down, and we'll probably start doing that at the beginning of next week" said head coach Jim Grobe. "I think we're in pretty good shape right now as far as the number of repetitions that we've given to special teams."
Friday's pair of practices were the last before the first scrimmage of the season, which will take place at BB&T Field on Saturday afternoon.
"It will be a good day tomorrow," said Grobe. "We're looking forward to having a good physical practice and maybe getting a better idea of who our first and second units are made up of. We're going to keep trying to get a look at everybody. A lot of our young players have gotten as many reps as our older players and we did that by design; we're really trying to evaluate the young guys right now. We'll come out of the scrimmage tomorrow and everybody will be able to say that they got looked at."
The no-contact evening practice gave the offense an opportunity to run through some skeleton passing drills, and Grobe liked what he saw from the quarterbacks.
"I thought that both Ted Stachitas and Tanner Price did some nice things throwing the football today," said Grobe. "One of the things that's been very impressive to me is that at the end of spring I was very concerned with our ability to throw the football. (Stachitas and Price) in particular have been good, and tonight, Brendan Cross and Skylar Jones also threw some good passes. It's probably the thing that I'm most pleased about right now is that I think all of our quarterbacks are throwing the ball very well. Ted and Tanner are a little bit ahead of the other two, but overall it's a lot better than it was last spring."
Wake Forest will hold its first preseason scrimmage at BB&T Field on Saturday. The session is set to start at 2 p.m. and is open to the public.
For those unable to make it out to the stadium, WakeForestSports.com will host an interactive live blog that will allow fans to submit questions and follow along with live play-by-play.
