The MSU-Northern Lights football program opened its fall training camp on Tuesday. New Media Broadcasters spoke with head football coach Jerome Souers who detailed what the difference would be for this camp versus the summer camp that just ended last week.
“Well, we start adding equipment and we start adding a lot more game schematics, patterns, movements, (and) various 11-on-11 types of things that we don’t do in July,” Souers said. “Our guys start out with helmets and no pads, then we’ll add shoulder pads and add full pads to transition into contact. That’s the safest way to do it and that’s how people do it these days.”
This has been a culmination for months of hard work for the program. Souers has game planned for this time period and is now ready to put the finishing touches on preparation so that the team can step on the field and play.
“We’re closing in on competition,” Souers said. “August is going to be taking all the things that we know in the practices from spring and into August competition. We’ll be competing against each other for the first ten days and then we’ll switch and start competing against the looks that we anticipate seeing against our first opponent.”
The Northern Lights open up the 2023 regular season at home with an 11am kickoff on Saturday, August 26th against the Mayville State University Comets.
“We have it all laid out. The schedule is ready, the path is there, and we just have to get on the road and get rolling,” Coach Souers said.
