By Harry Minium
You feel the energy from the moment you walk onto the Old Dominion University football practice field.
At first, you surmise it's the pent-up desire to play football from players who missed spring practice, most of summer practice and only recently began lacing up the cleats and putting on their helmets this fall.
And in the four practices I saw over nine days, the Monarchs clearly worked hard, as hard as any ODU team I've seen.
But then you realize, that's only a small part of what you're hearing.