Attended my first Husky practice today in several years.  Stood on the North sidelines close to the East end zone.

Overcast day today - the sun tried to poke out a couple times, but it was mostly a really windy day, with the wind making for chilly conditions.  Good practice for what the team will encounter in late Fall.

The sideline perspective was good for observing coaches, players & recruits, not as good for seeing all of the scrimmage action.

Overall, it seemed like the defense had the upper hand, especially the d-line vs. the o-line.  The QB's were frequently under a lot of pressure, with quite a few touch sacks (QB's aren't "live").  No real big runs, but I couldn't really tell how much yardage they were gaining so for all I know what looked like 2 yard runs may have been 6 yard runs.  I'll let others that were in the stands with a better view of the field chip in with more description of the scrimmage and who really stood out.

The coaches are as advertised - very active, always teaching, always hustling.  Cozzetto is a real perfectionist - I spent a few minutes just prior to the scrimmage starting watching the o-line drills.  I'd probably need to see them again 2-3 more times before I can really make any valuable observations about them.  I'll say this - it's interesting to see the variation in body types and shapes among them, from the tall and relatively skinny Terence Thomas, to the massive Morgan Rosborough, to the more squat Greg Christine.  Ben Ossai looks better, but I think he's still got more work to do to get into ideal condition.  Rosborough too.  And Habben still needs to work on his quickness - he got beat around the edge a few times.

Saw a number of recruits there, including (but not limited to):  Colin Porter (a big kid), Mike Marboe (looked relatively small standing next to Porter), Chris Young, Michael Hartvigson, Darius Waters and (of course) Jake Heaps.  Interesting to note that for pretty much the entire practice, Heaps was standing with a kid named Kyle Van Noy.  Van Noy is LDS and had committed to BYU last year, but got a DUI and so far as I can tell from the recruiting sites has delayed enrollment until next year.  I'm not sure what to read into his being at this practice with Jake, if anything, but I thought it was interesting.

Lots of former players there, including (but not limited to): Darin Harris, Caesar Rayford, Brock Huard, Hugh Millen, Tim Cowan and Greg Lewis.

Saw the Dawgman.com crew - Chris Fetters, Kim Grinolds, Scott Eklund, as well as Softy.

Interesting stuff.  If I'm not swamped with moving in to my new house next weekend, I'll try to make it out to that scrimmage as well, and am definitely planning on going to the Spring Game (should be pretty easy now that I'll be living just 2 blocks north of U-Village).