Pough prefers S.C. State meet goals in one practice a day

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- When it comes to relying on “two-a-day” practices preparing college football players for the regular season, South Carolina State head coach Buddy Pough is a contrarian.

While many of his coaching peers hold as many sessions as possible during the “dog days” of August, Pough sees them as valuable only when necessary.

“My philosophy is that you do them as you need to,” he said. “This is a situation here where if we can go to one-a-days, if we can do most of our work in one attempt and if we seem to be gathering the information the right way, then we can maybe cut it back to less two-a-days. But at the same time, if we have days where we’re still struggling to get lined up and have issues, of course, you’ve got to come out to do two.”

After what Pough saw was a ...




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