Football practice is over, and aside from a few stragglers everyone else has already walked up and out the Bulldog Stadium ramp.
Among them are senior Aaron Mitchell, Fresno State’s presumed starting center this fall, who is getting extra work on shotgun snaps. Offensive line coach Ryan Grubb knelt a few feet in front of Mitchell. Five yards behind, where the quarterback would be, stood Jeff Tedford.
For several minutes the new Bulldogs head coach caught Mitchell’s snaps. Snap after snap after snap. Each time, Tedford exaggeratedly froze his hands in place so that Mitchell, peering between his legs, could see where the football ended up.