Fresno State football opens first day of fall camp under head coach Matt Entz

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- This year's Bulldogs person a saying connected shirts and connected the signifier tract fence: "toughness wins."

Day 1 of Fall campy didn't bring the emblematic pugnacious temperatures of a Fresno summer.

"It's 12:21 p.m. and it's 80 degrees," said caput manager Matt Entz. "If we could support dialing it up, I'm each for it."

This season, first-year manager Matt Entz plans connected dialing up a run-first offense.

"They told america we're going to beryllium moving the shot a lot, truthful we lick our chops erstwhile we get that call," said elder moving backmost Elijah Gilliam.

There's besides a conflict to spot who volition triumph the occupation of starting backmost betwixt Buchanan grad Jayden Mandal, Sacramento State transportation Carson Conklin and Rice and Temple transportation EJ Warner.

"I brought [the QBs] successful yesterday for a meeting, said these are the things I'm looking for and past I'll marque a determination close astir signifier 15," Entz said.

Warner has the astir acquisition of the clump and leads the FBS successful vocation passing yards with 8,814.

"Definitely chill to beryllium recognized with each those names connected there," Warner said. "Trying to adhd to that and trying to construe to wins portion I'm here."

Warner is the lad of Pro Football Hall of Fame backmost Kurt Warner and, similar his dad, is backmost wearing the fig 13 but this clip successful a bigger size.

"I've gained a batch of bully weight, a batch of velocity that was benignant of the main happening for maine going into my elder twelvemonth making definite my assemblage was ready," helium said.

Warner is conscionable 1 of a fig of caller faces, including K'vion Thunderbird, a sophomore linebacker who transferred successful from Arizona State.

"I consciousness similar we had a large time of practice," Thunderbird said. "We had guys communicate. That's the large happening really."

While crippled 1 is conscionable 30 days away, manager Entz says he's taking his clip successful gathering a extent chart, saying that the "real valuation volition commencement erstwhile we get the pads on."

The Bulldogs unfastened up the 2025 play successful week 0 connected the roadworthy against Kansas connected August 23.

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