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I'm Tim Priester, and we are in the final week of spring practice, the last three practices.

And we finally had an opportunity to see a full practice, and it's always very, very

enlightening.

And we'll have another one coming up this week, obviously, with the blue goal game, which I

really think is less enlightening, you know, than a normal practice.

Because even Brian Kelly talked about the other day about, you know, how are they going

to split guys up?

And if you start splitting guys up along the offensive line,, even the defensive line, you lose some of the continuity. But anyway, we finally had an opportunity to see some action. And, I mean, it was good. It was enlightening. What did you guys think? Yeah, I mean, you see one versus ones at the highest level, whereas the Blue Gold Games were splitting guys up. You know, it's kind of like, it's a last day of school vibe.

You know, it's like, you never go into the last day of school and, like, wow, that was

a great class.

Really enjoyed what I learned there.

It's like, let's get this over with.

You know, guys, offensively that really impressed me, The offensive line was difficult for me to pick much out of.

But Dexter Williams, I hadn't really seen a whole lot from during spring ball.

And certainly not last year.

He was real impressive to me as probably your third back.

Corey Holmes, he's a believe it when I see a guy, but you're seeing it more now.

And, you know, Tori Hunter, you know, felt good about him, but, you know, he showed up really well.

Defensively, Isaac Rochelle, Niles Morgan, Sean Crawford, all were guys that were pretty impressive to me.

So I thought defensively I came away from Saturday feeling much better about that unit overall than I was going into it.

So that was probably the biggest thing for me.

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