COLUMBUS, Ohio - Right around the time the USA Today Coaches Poll was released with Ohio State the No. 2 team in the nation behind Alabama, the Buckeyes marched onto the Harmon Family Football Park practice facility for the first practice of the 2010 campaign.
Officially, it was 8:53 a.m. when a specialists group of long snappers hit the new FieldTurf surface just west of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. At 9:23 a.m. the defense, clad in scarlet jerseys and new-look scarlet shorts, trotted onto the field with the defensive line first and followed by the defensive backs. Twelve minutes later the entire offensive contingent joined in for a practice that lasted a little over two hours.
It will be the only practice of the day today for the Buckeyes. The team will have just one practice a day until the first two-a-day next Wednesday.
New Practice Park: The Harmon Family Football Park, although still not completed, looks to be a textbook practice facility and those in the football world who visit it will want to take notes. A few of the neat aspects of the park:
* There are several long, red brick water stations that are great places to sit when not in use by the trainers.
* There is a water fountain near the entrance.
* Team videographers can choose from any one of four giant towers - gray with scarlet roofing - with viewing platforms at 35- and 55-feet high.
* The park is equipped with a six-speaker-two-sub-woofer system for practicing through loud crowd noise. The system can crank, we are told.
* Practicing under the lights is now an option. Six towers hold 248 giant lights (31 per tower) that will have no trouble at all lighting the four fields.
* There are two scoreboards and seven timing clocks.
* Bleachers are located at the north end of the complex with another set in the southwest corner.
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