Virginia Tech Football Spring Peeks

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Justin Fuente’s were mic’d up this spring. (Jon Fleming)

Virginia Tech’s media folks have put out a few snippets of video this year giving a behind-the-scenes look at Spring Practice. They’re fun and fast-paced, but they’re also context free. That doesn’t mean they’re devoid of useful info, though. Here’s some context and interpretation (and a few quips) on these clips and the smidgen of Spring Game footage that was released.

Dax Hollifield

0:42 This is a “psyched-to-be-mic’d” sprint for most players, but I’m guessing he’s like this all the time.

1:00 Coach Fu has that calendar stuff down.

1:01: This is a Change-of-Direction (COD) drill. Linebackers spend a lot of time moving back and forth laterally as their keys change through the course of a play, which makes drills like this vital.

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