Ahmad Sweeney tries to use a little facial English to will that ball into his hands; that's TE Kasey Nobles in background

Owl defenders hit the dummies under watchful eye of Coach Randolph -- just like they do it at Alabama

John Welch (L) says, "Come to papa," while Brandon King tries to put on the brakes...

...and the fleet redshirt freshman turns it upfield in one of the day's better plays

Coach Applewhite works with the centers and quarterbacks on the snap count -- that's frosh QB Pierre Beasley at far left

Yeah, well, that pretty much describes Coach Phillips -- especially about two hours deep into the workout

Deep snapper Brandon Long works on, er, must be the deep snap

DL Dietrich Davis works on swatting away dummy like it was a big fat ol' Cougar offensive lineman

Both frosh quarterbacks air it out -- that's Pierre Beasley on the left, Drew Mehringer on the right

Here's a view of what looks like two versons of the new helmets, sans insignia (PTH photo)

(Mark Anderson photos, except where indicated otherwise)