Defense carries day in NSU scrimmage, but offense gaining confidence

COURTESY NSU ATHLETICS

NORFOLK, Virginia -- There's no avoiding the fact that bridging the gap between Norfolk State's dominant defense and its underachieving offense will take time.

In this summer's second full-contact scrimmage, the Spartans made minor advances on offense Saturday. But there was no question which unit carried the day.

"Definitely, if you had to say who won the scrimmage today, our defense was definitely ahead," first-year coach Latrell Scott said. "But there were some positives on offense. We moved the ball in spots. We just didn't move the ball as consistently as we would need to to win a football game."

Junior quarterback Greg Hankerson, a transfer from Florida Atlantic who inherited the starting job when Terrance Ervin left the program this month for "personal reasons," had stretches of inaccuracy, often throwing behind or too deep for open receivers.

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