Southern head coach Terrence Graves speaks with his players on the field during practice, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at A.W. Mumford Stadium on the campus of Southern University.
Southern football capped six consecutive practices with a 50-plus play scrimmage on Saturday, taking the first big step in preseason camp. It was first-year coach Terrence Graves’ first chance to get a look at a lot of the new players under game conditions that he brought in to the program. He especially wanted to see about his team's discipline, asking referees working the scrimmage to call it “tight.
” “It went well; I liked the way we moved the ball offensively,” Graves said after grading the tape on Sunday. “The offensive line did a good job of protection and blocking. We had no holding calls or false starts.
We had some penalties we’ve got to clean up, but they were us being aggressive. The penalties can be corrected. “I wanted the officials to call it really, really tight.
Some of the penalties may have been borderline, but that will help us down the line.” There was no news on the quarterback contest between junior Noah Bodden and redshirt freshmen Czavian Teasett and Jalen Woods. Graves praised their ability to run the offense as they took turns with both units.
“The quarterbacks did a good job of executing the offense,” Graves said. “They had a few mistakes on assignments here and there. We didn’t have any interceptions, that was great.
When they got in the game, they .