“You don’t know what to feel,” Hugh Freeze said when asked on Saturday what he thought of the yards gobbled up by his crew of beastly wide receivers during Ole Miss’ Grove Bowl game. “You want to high-five your receivers, but you can’t give up explosive plays. It’s difficult for a coach to leave scrimmages feeling good. Something went wrong for something to go right. You’ve got to look at both sides.”
This is the paradox of playing yourself in a spring game and one of the reasons that attempting to glean meaningful information from a televised scrimmage is an exercise in futility.