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After what many described as their most grueling offseason, Cincinnati Bearcats football players were back on the Nippert Stadium gridiron Monday afternoon blessed with mid-70s weather for the first day of spring practice.
“To be able to put a ball down and watch these guys fly around is fun to see,” UC head coach Scott Satterfield said. “I didn’t see many guys on the ground. That’s one thing you always look at. We were competing at a high level.”
In addition to watching his team, Satterfield was watching some new staffers, as well as entertaining some recruits. He joked that he was trying to convince them most Cincinnati days in March are 75 degrees.
Cincinnati uses winter to bring Bearcats together
It’s year two for Satterfield who is looking to flip the script on his inaugural 3-9 season. To prepare the Bearcats mentally and physically, director of football performance Niko Palazeti began a grind in early January to improve the team’s overall toughness.
Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Scott Satterfield blows his whistle during spring football practice, Monday, March 4, 2024, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.
“It’s been great, we’ve been closer than ever,” linebacker Jack Dingle said. “(It was) a heck of an offseason. It brought us together for sure.”
Said 1,047-yard rusher Corey Kiner, “I feel this year we came in with a purpose. We came to set a new culture, build the culture up to back to where it was. Get people in who wanted to be here and get people out who didn’t want to be here.”
Cincinnati Bearcats quarterbacks Brady Lichtenberg and Brendan Sorsby take snaps during spring football practice, Monday. Sorsby transferred to UC from Indiana.
UC appeared together initially last season, getting out of the chute 2-0. Then they dropped nine of their next 10 games. Some of those were single-digit losses where opportunity…
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Publish date : 2024-03-05 01:39:55
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