Football Spring Practice Begins Monday

12 practices, 2 scrimmages, 1 spring game and 1 week off for spring break. That’s the schedule for the upcoming spring for the youthful Bears football squad.

UCA returns 40 lettermen and 10 starters, with another 12 players who have started at least one game during their career. . .
The Bears will have two quarterbacks battling to replace the graduated Robbie Park (Nathan Dick and Wynrick Smothers. . .
Sophomore quarterback Trae Cook has been suspended for spring practice.

PRACTICE DATES (3:40 p.m.)
March 15, 16, 18, 19, 31
April 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15

SCRIMMAGES (3 p.m.)
April 3, 10

SPRING GAME (6 p.m.)
April 16

The UCASports story also touches on a list of players that are out for the spring due to surgeries and who coach is looking to as the leaders after losing so many seniors off last year’s team.

Also, a quick look at the updated roster shows a lot of new names with no numbers. If I counted correctly, there are 78 guys listed, 15 of those are numberless.