Good morning buck nutters. Welcome to the buck nutter.

Good morning buck nutters. Welcome to the buck nuts morning 5 here on Monday March 7th 2022.

I am Dave Vittel. I am joined by Steve Hellwagon. We're a little late getting started.

A little technical difficulties so we are now live and in living color.

You know a lot to talk about on the show today Steve. Spring ball starts tomorrow for the buck guys.

We'll start with that. We'll get into hoops to finish the show.

They're throwing a lot at us tomorrow and I am here for it. A portion of practice is open to the media.

And then we're going to get Ryan Day afterward. We're going to get Kevin Wilson.

And we're going to get Jim Knowles afterwards. We're getting the head coach, both coordinators.

I love that. We'll get into main storylines, guys that need to help themselves the most in a moment.

But just your thoughts on spring ball kicking off tomorrow.

Yeah, I think it's an exciting time. The players have worked really hard the last six weeks or seven weeks since they resumed after the bowl game.

And you see on social media they put up some snippets here and there.

And guys are probably ready to get back on the practice field after doing all of the running and calisthenics and lifting and everything else that can be involved in that offseason program.

So I've got a number of guys that I look at for players on the spot guys who really need to have a big spring.

And I'll be interested tomorrow. You're not going to gain a whole lot the first day.

They're not even in shoulder pads on the first day, but a lot of guys out there that I'll be looking at.

Yeah, talk about some of those guys. You know, you're taking a close look at about 10 guys.

Like you said, talk about some of those guys.

Yeah, and again, we don't know the injury status of some of these people like starting at running back.

I look at Evan prior Marcus Crowley.

I mean, those are two guys right there that need to take the bull by the horns and show that they can be the backup.

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