Football practice this weekend

[cfdhawg]

Gonna be on the hill this weekend for baseball. Is it possible to check out football practice Friday or Saturday?

[ricepig]

Gonna be on the hill this weekend for baseball. Is it possible to check out football practice Friday or Saturday?

Only if you are a recruit, parent of a player, or a BM Platinum member.......seriously, it would probably require one of those, or a good friend who is.

[cfdhawg]

Thanks!

[ricepig]

Thanks!

Also, the only practice is on Saturday, it'll be a scrimmage. They're practicing on Tuesday's, Thursday's, and Saturday's this spring.

[FANONTHEHILL]

At the conclusion of practice today, they moved tomorrow's (Friday) team activities up to 2:30 pm to give the guys more rest.  Coach also said that the Saturday schedule would be given to the team tomorrow.  So the guys don't even know when practice is Saturday yet.

[FANONTHEHILL]

To add to my previous post, originally the practice was at 11am.  Not sure why/if that will change when they meet Friday at 2:30.

[RazorRed26]

Does anyone know when they will open their one practice to everyone?

[Boss Hog in the Arkansas]

 

Does anyone know when they will open their one practice to everyone?

April 29th 

[ricepig]

Does anyone know when they will open their one practice to everyone?

I don't even know if they are going to use the stadium until the 29th, no room on the practice fields.

[FANONTHEHILL]

I don't even know if they are going to use the stadium until the 29th, no room on the practice fields.

Tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, is supposed to be in the stadium.  They will go from the 50 and in heading into the south end zone.  It will be my first time inside since construction began.  I'll try to get some pictures and post them.

[Mike Irwin]

Tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, is supposed to be in the stadium.  They will go from the 50 and in heading into the south end zone.  It will be my first time inside since construction began.  I'll try to get some pictures and post them.

How is it that you are allowed to watch when it is closed to the public? To me if they let some fans in it ought to be open to them all.

[bennyl08]

How is it that you are allowed to watch when it is closed to the public? To me if they let some fans in it ought to be open to them all.

Parent of a player.

[ricepig]

Parent of a player.

Sort of like the old American Express commercials, "Membership has it's privileges".

[FANONTHEHILL]

Coach Bielema is great with player families and allowing access to practice. By the way, when I mentioned "I'll post pictures" above, that's of the construction.  It's common sense that there should be no pics ever taken during practice.

[ricepig]

Coach Bielema is great with player families and allowing access to practice. By the way, when I mentioned "I'll post pictures" above, that's of the construction.  It's common sense that there should be no pics ever taken during practice.

The media takes plenty, along with video.

[bennyl08]

The media takes plenty, along with video.

Only allowed during the first 10-30 minutes or so IIRC.

Namely, I remember it was a similar restriction to when the practices were open during the Petrino years. You could get some cool pictures being that close to the action, but it would suck having to go back to put your camera away before the cool stuff happened.

[ricepig]

Only allowed during the first 10-30 minutes or so IIRC.

Namely, I remember it was a similar restriction to when the practices were open during the Petrino years. You could get some cool pictures being that close to the action, but it would suck having to go back to put your camera away before the cool stuff happened.

They were allowed in for 65 minutes last Saturday, and will be there for the entire scrimmage tomorrow.

[OnTheHillHogFan]

Does anyone know when they will open their one practice to everyone?

They usually don't open any practices in the spring to the public but in the fall there has been one open scrimmage each year.

[RazorRed26]

:puke:April 29th 

I'll keep that in mind.  In the past CBB opens a practice up a week or two before the red/white game.

[RazorRed26]

They usually don't open any practices in the spring to the public but in the fall there has been one open scrimmage each year.

Incorrect.  CBB has always open 1 and only 1 before the red/white game. 

[FANONTHEHILL]

Incorrect.  CBB has always open 1 and only 1 before the red/white game. 

With all the construction, I would imagine that April 29th may be all there is this year.

[sowmonella]

Parent of a player.

Out  :razorback:

[Mike Irwin]

Coach Bielema is great with player families and allowing access to practice. By the way, when I mentioned "I'll post pictures" above, that's of the construction.  It's common sense that there should be no pics ever taken during practice.

Glad you cleared that up. That was my main concern. They close practice for a reason.

[Mike Irwin]

Only allowed during the first 10-30 minutes or so IIRC.

Namely, I remember it was a similar restriction to when the practices were open during the Petrino years. You could get some cool pictures being that close to the action, but it would suck having to go back to put your camm era away before the cool stuff happened.

15 minutes today. All we're going to be able to show is warm ups. That's standard. You have to go all the way back to Hatfield when we were last allowed to shoot game action at a scrimmage.

In fact the last one I remember involved Ed Orgeron. He was a weight room grad assistant. Our camera was about half way up on the west side. Other cameras were scattered about. Suddenly Ed showed up and stuck his belly in front of the lense of our camera.

I asked him, "What's the deal, man." He said, "Coach says cut it."

Pointing out all the other cameras I said, "Come on man. Everybody is shooting. This was arranged before this thing started."

He stood there and repeated, "Coach says cut it."

I was like, "Cut what? We're all shooting."

He was not going to move so we had to give up. I walked up to the press box and asked Rick Schaeffer to find out what was going on. I pointed out that every other TV station was still shooting. He was too scared to asked Hatfield while the scrimmage was going on even though the whole situation clearly made no sense.

So after the scrimmage we find out from Hatfield that he thought our shooter was a HS coach. The annual coaching clinic was going on that week and he said he told Orgeron to go up and tell that coach he really didn't need to shoot. He would provide a copy of the scrimmage after it was over.

Years later when Orgeron popped up as an assistant coach and then as Ole Miss' head coach I was thinking he must have had a brain transplant.

[ricepig]

15 minutes today. All we're going to be able to show is warm ups. That's standard. You have to go all the way back to Hatfield when we were last allowed to shoot game action at a scrimmage.

In fact the last one I remember involved Ed Orgeron. He was a weight room grad assistant. Our camera was about half way up on the west side. Other cameras were scattered about. Suddenly Ed showed up and stuck his belly in front of the lense of our camera.

I asked him, "What's the deal, man." He said, "Coach says cut it."

Pointing out all the other cameras I said, "Come on man. Everybody is shooting. This was arranged before this thing started."

He stood there and repeated, "Coach says cut it."

I was like, "Cut what? We're all shooting."

He was not going to move so we had to give up. I walked up to the press box and asked Rick Schaeffer to find out what was going on. I pointed out that every other TV station was still shooting. He was too scared to asked Hatfield while the scrimmage was going on even though the whole situation clearly made no sense.

So after the scrimmage we find out from Hatfield that he thought our shooter was a HS coach. The annual coaching clinic was going on that week and he said he told Orgeron to go up and tell that coach he really didn't need to shoot. He would provide a copy of the scrimmage after it was over.

Years later when Orgeron popped up as an assistant coach and then as Ole Miss' head coach I was thinking he must have had a brain transplant.

So......you're saying Hatfield thought you were coaching material?   

[EastMemphisHog]

Any idea what time they are practicing?

[MuskogeeHogFan]

To add to my previous post, originally the practice was at 11am.  Not sure why/if that will change when they meet Friday at 2:30.

Any idea what time they are practicing?

[Mike Irwin]

11:30