Practices give staff an opportunity to get starters healthy, work with younger players
Sunday meetings after the regular season finale have mostly gone the same way for the Iowa State football team the last several years.
When second-year coach Matt Campbell talked with the team last Sunday, he heard the same thing from most of the seniors. Usually on those Sundays, they’re cleaning out their lockers and preparing themselves for a long offseason.
Now, they’re gearing up to find out their bowl destination and begin practice for a yet-to-be-determined opponent.
“I think there was a bounce to their step,” Campbell said. “That part is exciting.”
ISU (7-5, 5-4) will find out its bowl destination Sunday afternoon — most indications are it will be the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Fla. or the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn. — after a week to recover from the grind of the 12-game season.
The Cyclones, who are allotted 15 postseason practices, began Friday, and will hold practices on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the next few weeks before traveling to the bowl site. Campbell said the last week has been primarily focused on getting everyone healthy.
“You’ve got a lot of guys who played a lot of snaps,” Campbell said, “and what you don’t want to do is run that team into the ground so by the time you get to the bowl game they’re not interested in playing. I’ve been part of that staff too and that’s no fun. You want your kids to be fresh and you want them to be ready to play to the best of their ability.”
Running back David Montgomery, who left the game at Kansas State after the first series, suffered from an upper leg injury, Campbell said. The 1,000-yard rusher also left the game at Baylor the week before with an ankle injury.
There is no long term damage or worry about Montgomery’s health, Campbell said, but that he wouldn’t “let him touch the practice field until he’s 100 percent and ready to go.” Campbell also said quarterback Kyle Kempt is in “a really good situation” health-wise.
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“We’ve had a full season,” wide receiver Allen Lazard said after the last game. “I haven’t had an off week in about two months or so now. It’ll be nice to just get a little break and be able to relax and kind of get your body back and mentally.
“Just finish out the school year and that way we can be 100 percent focused on the bowl game.”
ISU will structure its bowl practices similar to its spring practices, Campbell said. One of the biggest pieces to these addition practices will be the opportunity for young players to get more hands-on time with coaches. The Cyclones will even practice without the seniors at times.
The younger players get to be around the seniors through the duration of the regular season, but the winter practices give some of the sophomores and juniors the chance to start developing leaderships characteristics with Lazard, linebacker Joel Lanning and offensive lineman Jake Campos elsewhere.
“Maybe if those seniors aren’t there or even if they are there, they maybe aren’t in the drill or the situation,” Campbell said, “I think it gives a coach a really great evaluation tool to say, ‘Man, I get the short snippet of this football team before I go into the winter session.’
“Now I’ve got winter, I’ve got some winter conditioning and then I’ve got spring practice. Where do I have to get my position group by the time I get to spring practice so I can be competitive or where we need to be in terms of our program?
“I think that’s really big. We use a lot of this practice time to do some of that.”
Even for the seniors, it’s a time to make one last push to win their first — and only — bowl appearance. The nature of the last-second loss at Kansas State has ISU wanting to turn its full attention to keep that from happening in a bowl game.
“This senior class and this team,” Lanning said after the last game, “we all have short memories and there’s nothing you can dwell on. We’ll come back to work (in practice), watch our film, fix it, wait for the bowl and prepare for it.”