Eagles Open Camp

Temperatures near 100 degrees couldn't stop the Georgia Southern Eagles from taking the field for the first day of camp Monday. First-year head coach Chris Hatcher putting his team through two-a-days early this week. The team has been broken up into two groups for the first couple days. A group made up of mainly younger players practice in the morning, while upperclassman lift weights. The squads switch in the afternoon. Coach Hatcher said this gives the coaching staff a better opportunity to take a closer look at the players and what they can do. “First of all you get more reps with the guys you have out there. You have all the young guys in the morning, you don’t go quite as fast a tempo as the afternoon so you get to teach them more,” said Hatcher. “The biggest mistake you can make as a coach is come out here, throw a whole bunch at them and then those young guys are thinking too much and you can’t see what type of player they really are. We try to keep it simple with them early on so that we can see if they are going to be able to help us out down the road this season.”
Georgia Southern opens the 2007 season on Saturday, September 8, against West Georgia with kickoff scheduled for 6 p.m.