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April 19, 2012

Spring drills ending too soon for Missouri Southern football coach

By Jim Henry Globe Sports Editor

Missouri Southern football coach Daryl Daye has one problem with the Lions’ spring workouts.

They are coming to a close.

“The thing I don’t like about spring, I wish we were just beginning spring,” Daye said Thursday morning. “I wish we had more. They are just now starting to get it. You can see it coming around. You can see the execution on both sides of the ball starting to come around. You can see them getting better.

“As a coach, when you see them start to improve you want to make them improve more. They have improved so much in the last three days … it’s exciting to see them learn and catch on and understand what’s being taught, understand the fundamentals of it.”

Daye said his staff shares his thoughts.

“With a new staff, we were just learning the guys,” Daye said. “We tried to get them in the right position. Now that we know what we have, if we had known that at the start of spring, we could have addressed it different. When you see them catching on toward the end, it makes you want to extend it.  The effort and enthusiasm have been there from Day 1.”

A spring game — No. 1s vs. No. 2s — on Saturday morning marks the end of spring workouts. The Lions will take the field at 9, and game action will begin around 9:30.

“It should be fun,” Daye said. “The kicking game won’t be live, but we will kick field goals, punt, make them catch the punt.”

And after the spring game, “We need to get out on the recruiting trail immediately when we finish,” Daye said. “We still have slots to fill.”

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