Lucas: Early Davis Era Shaped By Speed
Posted Sep 12, 2007
Butch Davis likes to do things quickly. Practices are crisp and meetings move fast. But despite all the emphasis on high performance football, there's one very fundamental--and very important--area where it's simply impossible for Davis to make a rapid change: Team speed. It just so happens that's also the one attribute Davis prizes over almost any other.
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