ryanebelhar
04-16-2008, 08:21 PM
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Saturday’s Blue/White Spring Football Game will be played as a regular game with evenly matched teams from a player draft, Coach Rich Brooks has announced.
This will be the first time in Brooks’ six years that the game will be played in that format. In the past two years, the Blue/White Game was played as an offense vs. defense scrimmage. In the 2003-05 spring practices, the Blue/White Game was in a regular game format, featuring first-team offense and defense vs. the remainder of the squad, with predictable wins by the first team.
The draft of players between the 2008 Blue and White squads will be released on Thursday. The head coach of the White Team is defensive coordinator Steve Brown, who will be joined by defensive line coach Rick Petri, quarterbacks coach Randy Sanders, special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Steve Ortmayer, and running backs coach Larry Brinson.
The head coach of the Blue Team is offensive coordinator Joker Phillips, whose staff will feature offensive line coach Jimmy Heggins, linebackers coach Chuck Smith, defensive backs coach Chris Thurmond, and defensive graduate assistant Dontae Wright. Phillips won a coin toss and will get first pick in the draft.
http://ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=39&url_article_id=21971&change_well_id=2
This will be the first time in Brooks’ six years that the game will be played in that format. In the past two years, the Blue/White Game was played as an offense vs. defense scrimmage. In the 2003-05 spring practices, the Blue/White Game was in a regular game format, featuring first-team offense and defense vs. the remainder of the squad, with predictable wins by the first team.
The draft of players between the 2008 Blue and White squads will be released on Thursday. The head coach of the White Team is defensive coordinator Steve Brown, who will be joined by defensive line coach Rick Petri, quarterbacks coach Randy Sanders, special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Steve Ortmayer, and running backs coach Larry Brinson.
The head coach of the Blue Team is offensive coordinator Joker Phillips, whose staff will feature offensive line coach Jimmy Heggins, linebackers coach Chuck Smith, defensive backs coach Chris Thurmond, and defensive graduate assistant Dontae Wright. Phillips won a coin toss and will get first pick in the draft.
http://ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=39&url_article_id=21971&change_well_id=2
