Discipline, toughness stressed as NCCU opens spring football

DURHAM, North Carolina — The bullhorn's back, and the N.C. Central Eagles are going to be in trouble if they can't show some discipline during spring practice.

Players not learning their playbooks, jumping offside, losing their cool, being late — and everything in between — won't cut it, second-year NCCU football coach Henry Frazier III said Tuesday after his team's first day of spring drills.

"If you can't do it when the pressure is not on, how can we trust you to do it in the fall?" Frazier said.

NCCU went 2-9 overall and 1-7 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference last season, and some of those defeats were close games the Eagles lost on account of a lack of discipline — that and just flat-out not being tough enough, Frazier said.

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