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WATCH: FAMU coach James Colzie asses team after 2 weeks of spring camp
James Colzie III is the 19th full-time head football coach of the FAMU Rattlers.
Florida A&M football coach James Colzie III is pleased with his team’s progress during spring practice.Colzie emphasizes the importance of disciplined play, aiming to reduce penalties that hampered the team last year.Players are responding well to new coaching styles and schemes implemented by the coaching staff.The annual Orange and Green Spring Game is scheduled for Saturday, April 12 at Bragg Memorial Stadium.
It’s still early, but James Colzie III likes who his second Florida A&M football team is shaping up to be.
The Rattlers’ head coach proctored his fourth out of 15 spring practices on Friday as his team began incorporating shoulder pads this week.
What stands out to Colzie in FAMU football’s formative days of spring camp is the squad’s quality of players and the healthy mesh of personalities.
“We got some talented guys on the field, and I think we’re a lot closer as a football team right now than we were at this stage last year,” Colzie told the Tallahassee Democrat after Friday’s practice.
“We got some guys who can do some good things once they get the ball in their hands. And we got some guys on defense flying around and adjusting to some of the new schemes that we’re running.”
Talent isn’t everything, however.
Colzie is urging his team to play cohesive and heady football, which was his pre-practice message to his team on Friday.
Colzie spoke of the FAMU being plagued with unsportsmanlike penalties in 2024, a season that saw them finish with a 7-5 record. The Rattlers were the 11th most penalized team in the nation last year, losing 73 yards per game from flags.
“I just think that as a football team and the veterans that we have, we just…
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Publish date : 2025-03-21 16:16:00
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