Duke Blue Devils quarterback Chase Brice is learning a new offense, after coming from Clemson as a graduate transfer. He discusses making the transition during a pandemic.
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00:00It's been great getting to work with Coach Cutt.
00:04I've already learned so much since my time here, a couple of months.
00:09And then obviously the Zoom calls I got kind of ahead on what we were going to go
00:13through in this fall camp, but so far I've been really pleased.
00:18And hopefully he has been pleased as well with how well I've kind of took control
00:24of the offense and ownership of learning the plays and what I need to know.
00:29Yeah, it has been a lot, not being unsure when you would get to come back.
00:36And then seeing other schools across the ACC,
00:39SEC going back earlier than you.
00:42But you just kind of have to take what you get.
00:46And I think we've done a great job with our time so far.
00:50We've had great walkthroughs, meetings, jog throughs, and
00:54finding time throughout the day on our own, as an offense,
00:58as quarterbacks, to get chemistry, build relationships,
01:03and also get that camaraderie on the field and off the field.
01:07So it definitely has been a challenge,
01:12a greater challenge than any college football season that I can think of.
01:16We haven't had anything like this.
01:18So I give props to Duke football, the staff, training staff,
01:24the people out here trying to help us stay safe, and
01:26also every other university out there that's doing the same thing.
01:30I think for anybody coming in, whether you're early enrollee or
01:34coming in the summer, you don't get that time of spring.
01:39Obviously, they only got a couple practices of spring, and
01:42then basically no summer workouts as a team.
01:46And when you're there as a team at college doing summer workouts in the morning and
01:51meeting in the afternoon if you're allowed to, or
01:53just throwing in the off time in the indoor, you miss all of that.
01:59It will set you back, and I think it has set back a lot of people.
02:04But you gotta roll with the punches and just get better each day.
02:09It is kind of frustrating, because you could wake up one morning and
02:14look on social media or get an update from ESPN, or
02:19an email from your university that, hey, we've shut down fall sports for
02:24the time being, and nobody is used to that.
02:27And so how you can respond to adversity tells a lot about you and
02:33your team, your coaches.
02:34And so I think the adversity that we've hit,
02:38which is starting later than everybody else, and also
02:43having a lot more restrictions, in my opinion, than what we're used to,
02:48as far as COVID, and so just abiding by those rules and
02:52how we're responding to adversity has been really, really good so far.