Southern Jaguars puts it on the line with sprints

Step outside, feel the heat, close your eyes and imagine this:

You are a football player at Southern University. Preseason camp is in full swing. It is 94 degrees with a heat index of 105. The team is 22 periods deep into a 24-period practice — the second of the day — and your body has started to seize and cramp. And then, with the end almost in sight, you hear the most crushing four-word phrase of all: “Everybody on the line!”

Welcome to the latest round of post-practice conditioning. Others call them sprints. Some teams call them “gassers.” Others call them “suicides.” Most players don’t really care what you call them, as long as you call them off. Are we having fun yet?

“It’s rough, man. I’m not going to lie,” senior wideout Curry Allen says. “I mean, we were already practicing in 110-degree weather. We’re in two-a-days, and it’s hot. And every period, the coaches want you to go full-speed. You get a water break here and there, but they want you to go full-speed. And then you’re almost at the end. And then you hear it: ‘On the line!’ ”

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