Villanova Football Set For Final Week Of Spring Workouts
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Villanova football team worked out Thursday morning on the Main Line as they continue to work through their spring practice schedule.
Next week will be the final week of workouts for the squad and head coach Andy Talley says things have gone quite well.
"Tremendous practices every day," Talley tells KYW Newsradio. "Usually in the spring you get a couple, two or three practices that are kind of duds. But the enthusiasm has been up. We have a lot of veteran players who are not practicing this spring because of operations, but we've had a lot of opportunity for young players to step up."
Talley is in his final year as the Wildcats head coach. He will retire following the season, with longtime assistant Mark Ferrante taking over the reins.
Villanova went 6-5 in 2015. It was a season that saw one of the greatest players in program history, quarterback John Robertson, suffer a knee injury costing him most of his senior campaign. Zach Bednarczyk, who will be a redshirt sophomore during the 2016 season, took over the offense and did well. And while no one would've drawn up Bednarczyk getting the playing time he did in 2015, it certainly helps his development going forward.
"Well, I think it puts him in the top half of quarterbacks in our league now," Talley says. "Because he has the most valuable thing a quarterback can have and that's experience."
Talley talks about some other positions that have caught his eye this spring.
"We've got a couple of really good young running backs on the rise," Talley says. "Defensively, I think our linebacker corps is probably as good as there is in the league. But our secondary, we need guys to step up, so they've had a lot of work."
Villanova will open the 2016 season on September 3rd on the road at Pittsburgh.
