Florida State Football News

8-24-06

The Seminoles worked in full pads in the stadium Thursday morning

NOTES

* The Seminoles went out in full pads at 9:45 a.m. Thursday and spent the early portion of practice focusing on all aspects of the kicking game before splitting up and going against the scout teams on offense and defense

* Gary Cismesia was 2-of-6 on field goal attempts from 37 and 40 yards (three each)

* Three players (Graham Gano, Brent Moody and John McKnight) have worked at punter but a starter has not yet been determined

* The team will meet Friday morning and then to the Tucker Center for the annual Kickoff Luncheon where the players and coaches will be introduced. Coach Bowden will speak and announce his captains for the season.

* The final scrimmage of the preseason will be Friday night at 7:00 p.m. in the stadium and will be a half-scrimmage, half-game script

QUOTES

Head Coach Bobby Bowden

(On practice)

"We out today in full pads and worked on our kicking game. We spend half the time on our kicking game, probably about an hour. Some at full speed, kickoff returns, kick coverage, punt coverage, punt block, punt return, then we went into just team stuff. We did not do any scrimmaging other than what we did on the kicking game. So it was a good practice to get some thing done. Tomorrow is the luncheon, we will not practice tonight, then of course we will have our last scrimmage tomorrow night."

(Who will the punter be?)

"No I haven't decided. As I watch them, they are all punting pretty darn good but we are going to have to select one of them. Soon I hope to come up with an answer to that."

(On Cismesia going 2-of-6 in field goals)

"He didn't hit them as good today. He had a couple of them close that he missed but I don't know what goes through their head."

(On tomorrow night's scrimmage)

"We will let the scout team simulate Miami defenses and the plays that they run and just try to get a good look at them."

(Biggest concern before Miami game)

"Staying healthy again, you look out there and (Alex) Boston the starting end hadn't practiced in three weeks. I can't see him being ready to go unless he makes a miraculous recovery. Then I see (Darrell) Burston over there on the sideline, so there are your two starting ends."

LB Marcus Ball

(What have people told you about the Miami game?)

"What I already know. It is super intense, it is super loud and it is a very fast game."

(On his goals)

"The reason why I came here was to play. I know anywhere I would go in the country there is going to be a competition, whether you are going to play or not. I'm out here with the best guys in the nation. So I knew I'd have the competition. I wasn't expecting to be the best and I wasn't expecting to be the worst. I was expecting to come in and learn and be the best that I can be. You can get better everyday and that is what I'm doing."

(On playing special teams)

"It is very important to me because special teams are a very important part of the game. You can't win a game without special teams. It is a privilege to be a part of the special teams. It is important to me because I'm picking up on the game, being on the field, the speed of the game and all of that."

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