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With Friday being the first day of pads, they were thrown into hitting quickly with the annual scrimmage coming on the same day Hudson liked some of the things that he saw

"I saw some kids that played a lot of JV last year that played a lot tonight." said Hudson. "They wanted to step up and they did. And then, of course, there are some of the players that are going to have to get a lot better."

Hudson said that they did a lot of alternating from kids that were primarily offensive players that took a lot of reps on defense

"Some of these kids really stepped up, and there was about four of five of them, especially in the secondary that we weren't too sure about that stepped up and played, so that will give us some depth there that we didn't know about

Hudson, beinga stickler for detail, said that they will have to study the video to see how their performances were Now in his third year, he says that things are run a lot smoother because the little things such as showing up on time being prepared have been handled The little things that he deals with now are the fine-tuning of a defensive system which is in its third year and an offense which in its second year with the new slot-T look brought by Offensive Coordinator Dale West a year ago

"You can tell we've played for a while " said You

Hudson. "You can tell our kids get it and the only reason they do is because they have more experience It's nice to see a lot of experience out on the field finally"

West, who taught the slot-T formation to the offense last season says that this year is much easier "Last year, we were teaching a lot This year, we're refreshing " said West "We're miles ahead of last year It's been a fun five days "

West, who is known to love to run the football and only called 23 pass plays in 13 games, expressed the need to complete more of those few opportunities

"We only completed six of them last year and we've got to raise that percentage up." said West. "We threw five or six times today. We need to see if we can really throw and catch it."

West said that he would not name names, but was impressed with a lot of the younger athletes on the field in the scrimmage

Normally, when you graduate your school's alltime leading rusher, there is not this much hype surrounding a team, however, Hudson and West feel that this is a plug-and-play system In a summer interview, West talked as if Stratton Carroll, who will return to action after tearing his ACL last Halloween vs Whitewright, should be the home run hitter for the 'Dogs Tyler Grisham and both of the Matthews brothers should see action in the backfield along with sophomore Andrew Griffin