Any training camp ahead of football season is a grind. Even with two-a-days no longer permitted under NCAA rules, the three weeks feature long practices in the sweltering Texas summer and hours learning the offensive and defensive schemes.
This season, SMU's coaching staff is trying to put the "camp" back into "training camp." SMU has integrated fun features to practice as well as scheduling team building events to break up the monotony of practice after practice, day after day.
It's a change of pace for the players who started under June Jones, and even from the first two years of the Chad Morris era.