The University of West Florida football regular season is a little more than a month away.
The Argos will hit Pen Air Field for the first time on Sept. 5 when UWF hosts McKendree University, as part of the home-and-home series that saw the Bearcats host in 2023. Fall camp begins soon for the Argos, as players make their way back to campus.
It’s head coach Kaleb Nobles’ second season at the helm, after playing quarterback then ultimately becoming an assistant coach for UWF before taking a job at Clemson for a couple seasons. Now, he’s working to get the Argos back to the National Championship standard that was set by his predecessor, Pete Shinnick.
Nobles, along with offensive lineman Ben Freeman, a graduate student who transferred from Northwest Missouri State last season, were at Thursday’s Gulf South Conference media day, which featured seven of the eight teams in the conference. Erskine College, which will be an affiliate member of the GSC this season, did not attend.
Each team brought its head coach as well as a player representative to Birmingham, Alabama, at the Wynfrey Hotel. The event was livestreamed on FloFootball.
“You learn a lot of things (in year one),” Nobles said during the opening question for UWF’s portion of media day. “The team was resilient. The players are going to play as hard as they can if they know you love them … Our staff, they’re phenomenal. They take that stuff and run with it. For year two, it’ll hopefully be a lot smoother as far as behind closed doors.”
Here are four takeaways from what Nobles and Freeman said during the media day.
Kaleb Nobles has high hopes for the Argos’ defense with Kavell Conner returning
West Florida’s Byron Puryear gets to this feet after hitting Delta State quarterback Patrick Shegog during the Argos’ 24-21 win on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 from Parker Field at…
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Publish date : 2024-07-26 09:13:08
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