You know, I love having the transcripts of the press conferences with the coaches. It’s easier and quicker than trying to watch or listen to some video (which isn’t up yet for today). The problem, is there seems to need some sort of sub-titles or something to fill in the gap (you mean beat writers or something?). Yesterday it was McKenzie Mathews, that required waiting until the beat writers filled in the gaps. Today its something with T.J. Porter and an injury with Bill Stull from today’s scrimmage and practice.

On T.J. Porter:

He’s been excused for personal reasons. Hopefully, he’ll be here tomorrow. He was out here this morning, and we talked and he said he needed a little bit of time so we’re going to give it to him and we’ll have some discussions with him tonight. But I expect him here tomorrow.

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On Bill Stull:

Hopefully [he’ll be ready to take snaps] in another week. I don’t know. No, he will not scrimmage this week, I can tell you that.

Your guess is as good as mine. Hopefully we’ll know more tomorrow.
What I did get from the press conference transcript is that Kevan Smith is ahead of Dexter Davidson at the QB position among the freshmen. Smith is working with the second team while Stull recovers from whatever it is.

On Kevan Smith’s progress:

Very pleased. I probably haven’t mentioned his name [enough]. We’ve talked about [Nate] Byham. We’ve talked about [Aaron] Berry. [Kevin] Collier’s done some good things. Joe Thomas. [John] Malecki’s had two good days. I kind of sense him coming along a little bit. Probably the two freshmen that were the unsung, quiet guys that really flashed are Ty Tkach and Kevan Smith. Because of Billy Stull’s situation, Kevan Smith has taken all the second team work, and he’s really done a commendable job.

Really not much else from the transcript.