Less-frantic start for Delaware State's Coach Blount

DOVER, Delaware -- Everything was a blur for Kermit Blount a year ago as he rushed to ready for his first spring football camp as Delaware State's head coach.  Blount was hired less than six weeks prior to the Hornets' 2011 spring drills. He and his newly hired staff had to get to know their players and their skill sets as well as implement new offensive and defensive schemes in rapid order.

This spring has been notably different for Blount, as his Hornets opened the first of 15 spring practice sessions at Alumni Stadium on a windswept Monday afternoon. Spring camp will culminate with the annual Red-White scrimmage on April 14.

"We're still behind with numbers," Blount said, since his first recruiting class at DSU won't arrive until the summer. "I won't catch up with numbers until August, but the feel is different. "I've got a really, really good feel now of what I've got and what we have to work on. I'm not working in the blind, so I feel real good about that." 

Blount said he expects more than 60 players to be working out by August.

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