Noles Hold Last Two-A-Days As They Head Into Saturday Scrimmage

FSU Sports Information Excerpts:

The third of three two-a-days is in the books for the Florida State football team. The squad completed its final two-a-day practice a couple hours ahead of schedule due to impending bad weather. The team practiced for 18 periods in full pads. Tomorrow the entire 2008 Seminole team will be at the Kick-Off Luncheon at the Donald L. Tucker Center.

Head Coach Bobby Bowden:
“I think our offensive line in coming around. Nobody is where we want them to be yet. It seems like our offensive line is doing better than I thought with all of our inexperience in there. The pass protection has been better than I thought. Today we had a short yardage scrimmage and I thought the offense did a pretty good job on that instead of getting stuck. They were getting their short yardage pretty decently.

Which players are getting most of the repetitions at running back?
“We worked (Marcus) Simms there some to give us a third made. No. 30 (Pat Davis), a walk-on, gives us a pretty good look in there and of course (Tavares) Pressley is back now but he’s having to learn – he’s watching a lot. He has to go through the acclimation which means two days shorts, two days shells then full pads. Tomorrow he’ll be able to go in shells and get a little contact.”

Offensive Coordinator Jimbo Fisher:
On when he would like to have a quarterback named:
“You would like to have it relatively quick with some things, but again let’s see who separates. If they don’t, then we’ll have to go from there and make a decision on what we have to do.”