Whats the hardest part transitioning from the NFL training camp to the college preseason?
LK:”Number one is the time with the players. In the NFL you get so much time with them between OTA [Organized Team Activity] days, mini-camps and the four preseason games. We all of a sudden here have to go play an opener. We don’t get to go play against anyone else at all and then all of a sudden they count. Think about how valuable it is to play four preseason games that you get to play in front of a packed house. Television coverage, just everything that makes players nervous. We don’t get to do that. We have had to try and create that as much as we could. That’s the big difference. Then when you are trying to build depth. Our roster is short. We have had injuries. We didn’t have a full roster anyway. We don’t have 85. We just put some walk-ons on, but I think we are at 79 so we are six spots short of what other teams have. That’s because of our philosophy of wanting to sign really good players and not just filling a spot. That’s hard to deal with when guys keep going down like at r
