The Youngstown state football team is more than halfway through spring practice but have the opener on their minds.

At today's practice, "Beat Duquesne" was lit up on the scoreboard.

With nine practices under their belts, Coach Doug Phillips says he see's improvement every day.

"We saw a huge jump from our first Saturday to last Saturday and now to make another jump to Friday's second scrimmage."

Phillips also said Demeatric Crenshaw is "our one guy" at quarterback and Mitch (Davidson) is our number two guy.

"Demeatric has to come to in everyday and win that job, and its Mitch's job to come in and push him., You can't have a bad day at quarterback, " Phillips concluded.