Another position, obviously of great interest, left tackle. So you’ve talked about feeling strongly in terms of the returning experience along the interior, but when you’re talking about Jayven (Richardson) coming back, bringing some experience, versatility of a Jaylen (Early), what can you tell us about what you’ve seen from those individuals so far?

“That probably is the bigger competition that we’ve got to get settled because you got to get five people operating on the same page. You know, the good news is Connor (Tollison) is going to be playing next to Cayden (Green). And so there’s some camaraderie there. And so the left tackle’s not necessarily on an island. Obviously, Jayven, you know, Jayven is coming back. He’s only played 67 career snaps not counting Junior College. So, you know, there’s some things to be desired there. Johnny Williams will start that competition over there, left tackle. And then Whit Hafer moved from tight end this summer, so he’ll get that third one right there. On the right side. You got Keagan Trost. What blank you got Jack Lange, and then you got my guy Brandon Solis. And honestly, I think Solis has got an opportunity to really break out. I don’t know if he’ll quite get there, but we’ll start with those guys in that front seven right there, Jaylen Early, we’re going to start actually in the guard position, and just get him comfortable, because he’s got about 350 snaps in his career at guard, and I don’t want to, I don’t want to make him too uncomfortable early, since he’s just new to the situation. We’ll just see how he’s competing for the job and slide him out when he’s ready.”

I know they work a bunch this off season, but how exciting is going to be to get all those guys working on the field the same time?

“You know, I’m really excited about a lot of things. I mean, we already went over and moved into the dorm, and I think that’s kind of exciting, you know, we’ve been, we’ve been working, that’s the college football I mean, we got OTAs in June. So, I mean, it was four months ago, less than 30 days ago, that we were all out there together and getting the practice in. So I’m really more excited now that we’re this many days away from a game. You know now we have a real focus to our work.”

What is your message when you talk about moving out of the off season and a lot of big picture discussions, but the message to the guys about focus during camp and how that mindset needs to shift?

“You got to define what it is going to be. What are you trying to accomplish in camp? Right? Number one, we want it to be hard. We want to test these guys, both mentally and physically, so that they have the understanding when they face something hard, they can overcome it. We don’t want the first hard thing that they face to be being down seven or 14 or down at halftime or a two minute drive. So, you know, we’re going to put them in some adverse situations, starting living in the dorm, you know, few sudden change moments throughout fall camp, so that they can kind of face an adversity and create a mock road game. The second one is to, you know, establish roles on the team. Obviously, that’s a competition. Quarterback, left tackle, defensive end, tackle, you got to have both organization to have your rotating so, you know, there’s going to be healthy competition every day on what those roles are. And then the third one is to establish that belief in unity over self. You know, there’s a lot of really good football teams out there, but we want to be the best team that we can be. And in order to be the best team that we can be, it’s not about individual talent, it’s about individuals coming together and believing in the power of unity. And so that’s really how we’ll evaluate if camp was successful or not.”