I'm Donna Conrad at Kyle Field where we're a month away from the stadium being packed out as college football makes its return to agyan on Tuesday players reported for Camp beginning The Final Countdown to the start of the season it's uh it's here finally it it feels like uh in some ways I got here like two days ago and in some ways I got here like five years ago but uh we're here I'm good to go I'm excited about camping let's get this thing started as week one of Camp gets under way ELO wants to establish what they believe winning football looks like and with the amount of time the team has spent together during summer workouts they're ready to hit the ground running for their first official practice we have these internal formulas for what winning football looks like in practice and I think we're trying to hit those marks day in day out consistently and I think that's that's what you're trying to build one of the biggest changes for the program has been the addition of strength and conditioning coach Tommy Moffett who's changed the way the aies attacked the weight Mar I think from a cultural standpoint the way we look at strength and conditioning is is different we wanted to put on strength we wanted to put on mass um we wanted to go in there and make that room very challenging and very difficult um to to create toughness GD to create an area where kids could really improve and and we've embraced it his attitude he brings to the weight room every single day it's contagious and it comes on to us and I mean we're fired up in the weight room every day it doesn't matter if it's a 7:00 a.m. lift it or 1 1 pm. PM out in 100° heat we're ready to go he didn't put us in position to get bigger get stronger to last for to have their ability this season so I feel like we're coming in heal we're a month away from A&M hosting Notre Dame and while they recognize the strength of their weak one opponent they're focused on their own preparation we for sure know we like they have to come here they know they a top ranked team um but we just coming in day in day out putting our head down and going to work like we know when that time get here we want to be ready by the then so we know we have to go through far Camp to get there like I feel like we want to be prepared we'll have continuing coverage of the aies during Camp as they gear up for the 2024 season for now reporting from Kyle Field I'm Donna Conrad