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CEDARTOWN — The Cedartown Bulldogs football team has run into a little problem already this season.
It’s nothing major and nothing Bulldogs coach Mark Loudermilk knew wasn’t coming — the problem was that the Bulldogs started school on the same day as practice.
“By starting school the same day as football practice,” said Loudermilk, the 2007 Rome News-Tribune Coach of the Year, “it eliminated us from being able to go away to camp or to do two-a-days.”
However, Loudermilk has came up with a solution of sorts.
“We are going to have a mini-camp this weekend,” Loudermilk said. “It will start (today) after school and go until 1:30 Sunday.”
Loudermilk said after the first practice this afternoon, he will bring the team in to cool off and eat dinner.
Later tonight, around 8:30 p.m. Loudermilk plans on taking his team back out under the lights to practice.
“It’ll be good to get them out under the lights and being able to practice when it’s cool,” the third-year coach said.
On Saturday, the team will rise bright and early at 5:45 a.m. and be on the field practicing from 6 a.m. until 7:30 a.m.
“We will then have picture day at 9 a.m.,” Loudermilk said. “That afternoon at 3:30 we will have a practice focusing on special teams.”
Loudermilk said that night they will go from 8:30 p.m. until 10.
“We will wait until it cools off again and then practice hard,” he said.
On Sunday, Loudermilk said they will get up early once again and practice the kicking game.
“After that we will be going to Second Baptist Church for breakfast and for service,” Loudermilk said. “It’s going to be a team day, a day to bond together.”
Loudermilk said after the church service, the team will go back to the fieldhouse and break camp at 1:30 p.m.
“We hope this helps bring us closer together as a team,” he said. “The team and coaches will be practicing together, eating together and sleeping together.”
For any player that may think they can take the weekend off and not participate at the mini-camp, Loudermilk had strong words.
“If you don’t show, you don’t play,” he said.
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