When does everyone's Spring Practice's start and when is your Spring Games?

Unsure of each on the Pitt front.

Syracuse begins March 20. Spring Game is April 21.

Clemson starts March 7 and the spring game is April 14.

From College Football Talk
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ice-dates/

Boston College: first practice — Feb. 18; spring game March 31
Clemson: first practice — March 7; spring game — April 14
Duke: first practice — Feb. 22; spring game — March 31
Florida State: first practice — March 19; spring game — April 14
Georgia Tech: first practice — March 26 (tentative); spring game — April 20
Maryland: first practice — March 10; spring game — April 21
Miami: first practice — March 3; spring game — April 14
North Carolina: first practice — March 14; spring game — April 14
North Carolina State: first practice — March 23; spring game — April 21
Virginia: first practice — March 19; spring game — April 14
Virginia Tech: first practice — March 28; spring game — April 21
Wake Forest: first practice — March 1; spring game — April 14
Pittsburgh: first practice — March 15; spring game — April 14
Syracuse: first practice — March 20; spring game — April 21

Navy: first practice — March 19; spring game — April 14
East Carolina: first practice — March 19; spring game — April 14

Wolfman

Thanks! Just sharing what I found. I threw in Navy because someone has them listed in their bio.

How's is everyone's spring practices(schools that started already) going so far?

Same as every year. Lots of injuries going in.

D.J. Coles (6-3, 224, Sr.,WR): coming off knee surgery.
Joe St. Germain (6-0, 213, r-So.,LS): hernia.
Tony Gregory (6-0, 190, r-Jr.,RB): ACL surgery
Michael Via (6-7, 292, r-Sr.,OL): torn ACL
Antoine Hopkins (6-1, 306, r-Sr.,DT): won’t participate in scrimmages
Jeron Gouveia-Winslow (6-2, 205, r-Sr.,LB), Bruce Taylor (6-2, 243, r-Sr..LB) and Tariq Edwards (6-2, 231, r-Jr.,LB) are all questionable for the spring. All starting LB

Every one of these guys is scheduled to be a starter except Gregory.

Going pretty good from all reports. The defense is raving about how much easier it is to pick the scheme that Venables runs compared to the complex one that Steele ran.

We only have two players missing practice this spring due to injury: starting S Rashard Hall and LB Tony Steward

We at Pitt are missing HB Graham and LB Todd Thomas off the top of my head.

Dropped my Pitt Preview earlier tonight/this morning... http://csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=561308

tigernet.com

Quote:Chad Morris arrived at Clemson a year ago full of expectations, and his offense delivered as the Tigers finished 26th nationally in total offense with 440.8 yards per game, and were 21st nationally in passing yards per game {282.3 yards].

As a result, Morris wound up with a new contract that pays $1.3 million per year and makes him the highest-paid assistant coach in college football. His mentor, former Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, made $1.3 million last season but took a pay cut to become the head coach at Arkansas St.

One might think that Morris would be happy to sit back and earn his paycheck and ease up just a little.

Not Morris.

I saw him leaving the WestZone after practice last week with an arm full of books, and when I queried him on what they were, he told me they were different offensive schemes he was taking home and studying.

“You can’t do the same thing [as] last year and expect the same results,” Morris said after Wednesday’s practice. “That’s what we challenge our players with. That’s what we challenge our staff with.”

Morris has also recently taken trips to visit the coaching staffs at Nevada and Oklahoma St., just to study their systems and see what he can do better.

Quote:Morris said one of the reasons he wanted to visit Oklahoma St. was to see how they used wide receiver Justin Blackmon.

“They pass to win. We’re more of a balanced attack,” Morris said. “Could you go out there and get a few things? A few odd and end things - the way they moved Blackmon around - they did a great job of moving him around all over the field. That was kind of our approach. How did they move Blackmon around? What are the different concepts with him? Things like that. You go out and try to find a new wrinkle here and there. When you come back and add something, you throw something away. I’m a firm believer in that.”

Nevada, of course, is a running team and Morris has spent the past two months finding ways to fix Clemson’s rushing attack – they were 59th in rushing [158.5 yards] but struggled in short-yardage situations.

“Over the last six years, they’ve been in the top-five in the country in total offense,” Morris said of Nevada. “And running the football, which is extremely important, they’re very impressive. What are they doing out there that we could do? It may be one little, bitty thing - the way we take a step or approach terminology.”

Quote:Morris has to replace three starters on the offensive line, and he said that group is coming along but still has plenty of work to do.

“Much better. Much better. A lot of ownership taking place there right now,” he said. “A lot of accountability up front. It obviously falls back on short yardage, but we're putting a lot of pressure on them up front and holding them accountable. We're stepping in the right direction. We're far from feeling like we've arrived, any one of us. But we're making progress and you can see it every day."

Morris then named the players who have caught his eye through the first five practices.

"Kalon [Davis] has. He has done some good things,” he said. “Tyler Shatley has jumped in there and has given us an instant boost. Obviously his athleticism, his toughness and demeanor has given us that. I've been pleased with him. Gifford Timothy has been a guy that's got flashes. He's like a sparkler on the fourth of July. You light him up and he looks good, then he burns out. He has to stay lit. The flashes we see, they're good flashes. We have to get into that mental grind and keep pushing."

Another goal that Morris has outlined this spring is improving the communication between quarterback Tajh Boyd and center Dalton Freeman. Why? To get faster, of course.

"We averaged a TD every 13.7 snaps last year. We have to increase our snap total and we have to pick our tempo up,” he said. “We have to have our QB and center on the same page and playing fast. That's their goal this spring. We're challenging them every day. I'm excited about that. We're charting loafs. If we feel like we're wasting a rep, we'll chart it and they'll do a few up-downs as a result.

tigernet.com

Quote:“Tackling is attitude. Tackling is toughness.”

New defensive coordinator Brent Venables was asked about how he plans on making the defense one that tackles better than Clemson’s 2011 version, and toughness and attitude were just part of his response.

Venables met with the media following Clemson’s fourth practice of the spring on Monday, and he listed all of the factors that he sees as part of becoming a team that tackles well.

“Experience helps. Guys being sure of themselves, knowing what to do, trusting the guy next to them,” Venables said. “And muscle memory, trained reaction, just understanding the discipline and overall what it is that we’re doing, who’s where, leveraging the football. There’s a lot to it from a mental standpoint as much as anything. But at the end of the day tackling is attitude.

“Tackling is toughness. And trying to develop that mindset and that toughness through a lot of competition where you’re trying to quantify a winner and a loser, whether it’s the PAW Drill or short-yardage drill or things of that nature. You’re demanding the toughness that it takes and the mindset that it takes to be a good-tackling, tough-minded defense.”

Poor tackling didn’t cost the Tigers in early games as the offense simply out-scored opponents, but the tackling became a more-than-glaring weakness in losses to Georgia Tech, N.C. State, South Carolina and West Virginia.

Part of the blame was placed on the fact that the Tigers don’t complete the tackle during practice, instead going for the safer ‘thud’ version where the defender wraps up the ball carrier. Venables said that he used the ‘thud’ system while at Oklahoma and will use it here while trying to make the system less complex while stressing technique and fundamentals.

“During the season you can’t do it nearly as much. There’s always a delicate balance,” he said. “This is such a high-stress game now more than ever. The offense forces you to defend the field from every inch sideline to sideline, and because of that the margin for error is that much less. So the technique and the fundamentals are more important now more than ever.

“So with all the fast-paced no-huddle, guys are just trying to get lined up and get their feet set before the ball is snapped to have a chance. There’s a lot to that. It’s not whether it was a Clemson thing. It’s really all across the country where people are dealing in those types of situations. So to answer your question, we tried to thud up or tackle as much as we could. You try to simulate as much live situations as you can.”

Quote:The Tigers must replace three starters on the defensive line, a situation that Venables addressed.

“It all starts up front. That is not earth-shattering news,” he said. “They have shown an ability to hold their own and make the improvements we need them to make, so we can get them a bunch of snaps to make up for their lack of experience. “

Venables was asked about his scheme being less complex than his predecessor’s, and he said he wants his players to play fast.

“They are picking things up mentally, fundamentally and physically,” he said. “When a guy is playing fast and with good technique, typically that is a reflection of understanding what his responsibility is, where his eyes need to be and where his hat and hands need to be, those types of things. It has been positive.

“When you learn things the first time, you are not so sure of yourself. They are like anybody else. It is a new process, but I have been pleased with their willingness to work. It is not without error, but guys are competing hard and learning on and off the field.”

great stuff catdaddy... thanks for sharing