10 Things I Learned … Spring 2009

It was good to see the return of Jameel Sewell , Darnell Carter , and Chris Cook this spring.

The Spring Game is in the rearview mirror … and yet the start of the football season is not that far away, even less so when you think about the players still working out on a daily basis, the summer get-togethers starting right around the corner, and camp being just a matter of months away. But before we go forward, let’s look back and see what – if anything – we learned this spring.

1. Was Anything Learned? As I sit down to write this column, one thing strikes me as a major problem with which I am going to have to deal: the title of the column. “10 Things I Learned …” fits for the postgame columns that I write, and it fits for a lot of other columns that I do from time to time. But does it fit for a post-spring breakdown? Some years, yes. This year, I am not so sure.

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