The Phil Lembo era has officially begun with spring practiceBall State had its first week of spring practice this week to start off the Phil Lembo era of Ball State football in earnest. In case you haven’t read the practice reports about each individual day of practice, you can check them out here, here, here, and here.As you might expect after a long absence, the players on both sides of the ball showed signs of rust and committed mistakes and penalties nike free 3.0. The offense and defense are both installing new schemes this spring and it sounds like the defense has been slightly faster learners. Coach Lembo has singled out defensive ends Lorren Womack and Matt Mosley, receivers Torieal Gibson and Willie Snead, and punter Scott Kovanda out for individual praise. Kovanda in particular is having an excellent spring practice and looks to continue the line of stand out Ball State punters.It’s exciting to the start of the 2011 football season to be getting closer and closer and it&#8217 Nike Free 3.0 V5 Women Cheap;s exciting to think of how the new offense and defense will hopefully lead to much better results on game day. The key to spring practice is that both the offense and defense use every practice as a building block to move forward as a unit and to improve their grasp of the schemes in time for fall camp.Go Cards!!