Albany State completes first practice of season

ALBANY, Georgia -- The Albany State football team hit the field for its first practice of the 2015 season on Monday. Familiar faces like Jarvis Small and Tavarius Washington were on the field, along with a new face in first-year head coach Dan Land.

There are lofty expectations on this year’s squad with the team predicted to win the SIAC East Division, and Small and Washington named the SIAC Preseason Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively. However, the first-year head coach is reminding his team that there’s an entire season to play.

“Like I told my team when I first came out, I told them I'm old school, meaning that, look, everything on paper, don't believe it. You've got to go out and perform that,” Land said. “If we had scheduled on paper with at the end of the year, we'd be the number one team, we're the number one offense, number one defense, that's fine, but that is end of the year. Right now, we're nothing. We haven't won a game. We ain't played a game. So right now, it's just paper.”

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