JONESBORO -- In meeting rooms and on the field, Arkansas State University offensive line coach Matt Limegrover has no time for independent contractors -- players who break from fundamentals and the five-man unit of the Red Wolves' offensive line.
Instead, Limegrover insists his group of 17, 280-plus pound linemen operate less like football players and more like the Olympians who compete in a hybrid sport that combines dance, gymnastics and swimming.
"On the offensive line, [he says] we all have to be like synchronized swimmers," senior lineman Andre Harris Jr. said. "We've all got to be on the same page as one spirit out there.