University of Houston Athletics
Cougar Football Notes: Wednesday, Aug. 30
8/30/2000 12:00:00 AM | Football
"We're starting to shorten (practices) down a little bit," Dimel began. "We went two hours today instead of two-and-a-half to get ourselves really crisp for the first ball game."
On the field, the Cougars' first-year coach was pleased with the level of concentration and focus displayed by his team in their second-to-last practice before the big game.
"Today our football team showed a lot of intensity and a lot of fire in practice. What that's telling me is that they are tired of going against each and are ready to face another opponent," Dimel continued. "They were short-fused and we had a few scuffles going on indicating our team is ready to get going and play another football team."
Comfortable with the team's level of preparation and readiness going into Saturday's game, Dimel and his staff continued to be revolve practice around sharpening the basics of the new offense and defense schemes this season.
"Right now the concentration is just fine-tuning the offense and fine-tuning the defense," said Dimel. "We've hit special teams a lot recently, but we didn't hit it that much today. I thought our running game improved today, and I thought our defense practiced really well today, too."
