El Dorado concluded its football week Friday afternoon with picture day for the players at Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats went through practice earlier in the day.
“Picture day went good. Nice and cloudy and it was breezy, so it went good,” said El Dorado coach Chris Hill, who said the week went well.
“It was good. The kids did a great job of showing up. We kept them all day, fed them snacks in between practices and fed them lunch. We let them have a little down time so they could enjoy being around their teammates and get to know each other a little bit better. I thought it was a really productive week for us.”
Hill said the team went over basic football operations.
“Just some consistency, it sounds funny but we were practicing how to practice, trying to sharpen a few things up, trying to pick the tempo up, getting our rotations in better. Those were things we were looking to get done and I think we accomplished those,” he said.
“We’ve been busy all summer doing the same things we’ve been doing this week. You get to a point where you’ve done all you can do in helmets without pads on. That’s kind of the point we’re at, right now. We’re just looking forward to putting the pads on. It’s a whole different ball game when you start hitting people.”
Hill said the team’s two-deep chart is starting to round into form.
“We feel pretty good. We’ve still got a couple spots with guys battling for starting jobs. That’s a good issue to have. If they’re battling for a starting spot and they don’t win it, we’re sound in the back-up. We feel good about that,” said Hill. “We’re going to be young. We’ve got a few sophomores playing for us. It is what it is. The kids have worked hard. The kids we have, we feel like Wildcat football is important to them. We feel like they’re team players. We feel like they can be counted on. When you have that, you can go to practice and you can have fun and get better.”