TEMPE — Kenny Dillingham sought out more physicality early in Arizona State’s spring football camp. That physicality arrived in the form of a few scuffles in Thursday’s session.
Tempers flared for the first time when a run-game period stayed chippy beyond the whistle. There was more extra-curricular activity later when a receiver appeared to take issue with an interception, shoulder checking well after the fact, which perked up the entire defense.
“When you’re playing hard, it should get chippy,” Dillingham said. “It should never, like, boil over to the locker room or anything like that, but it should get chippy.
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“Relationships aren’t built through roses and candy canes. They’re built through conflict. If you want a really close team, you have to create conflict. There has to be arguments. There has to be competitive juices versus each other that you have to make up even though you hated that dude for 30 seconds. Like, that is what a good team is.”
By all appearances, Dillingham’s players took the moving on part of it in stride. While certain precautions were taken — like going from larger groups to line-against-line to let heads cool down — players seemed to jump right back into the flow of practice after the dust settled.
“You build real relationships through tough times, right? They’re not fabricated. … And I think today some relationships could be built ’cause of the conflict,” the coach added.
No team is going to make it through a 15-practice spring session without at least a scuffle or two, and its coaches might be concerned with its competitiveness if it did somehow happen.
What you don’t want is for it to become part of who the team is in the way that LSU head coach Lane Kiffin admitted his team had “like six fights” on one day, and there had to be a heart-to-heart afterwards about “we don’t fight.”
Dillingham called Thursday a “good, physical day” that the offense won, nine days after he ended practice saying that ASU’s physicality was there, “but you couldn’t feel it.”
LSU transfer cornerback Ashton Stamps, who projects as a potential starter opposite Rodney Bimage Jr., believes the team shows that part of itself at times, but not regularly enough.
“Coach been harping on us not being as physical. But I feel like we are, it’s just we got to be able to showcase that consistently,” Stamps said. “So, they got a couple fights that broke out. That’s football. It’s going to happen.
“We’re going to go in the locker room, everybody going to be dapping up. But, you know, that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing to see.”
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