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Eagles get back into action
105 report for beginning of fall camp
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The NCAA has made things a lot easier for a first-year head football coach to install his system.Because of this, Georgia Southern coach Willie Fritz can spend more time sorting out depth and a lot less time teaching his scheme to the Eagles, who were scheduled to open fall practice Thursday at Beautiful Eagle Creek.An NCAA rule passed in October allows the coaches two hours of access with the team per week during the summer. The returners utilized the extra time with the coaches through summer’s first term, and all but four of the freshman recruiting class joined the sessions for the second term.“From the first fall practice, we’ll be where we would have been [at] practice seven or eight,” Fritz said. “Instead of taking 10 or 12 practices to get all your offensive and defensive schemes, shoot, by practice five or six, we’re going to have probably 90 percent of our offense in.”In total, 101 Eagles worked throughout the summer, and 105 reported on Wednesday.The biggest name on the field is sophomore quarterback Kevin Ellison, who took his lumps in 2013 while backing up Jerick McKinnon through the first half.
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