"Get your work done"

I've never been as big a fan of Cherry and White Days as my fellow Owl fans.
During the leanest of years, the Cherry team and the White team would both look good and there would be the usual optimism abounding.
I always looked at this through the Prism of two colors.
Cherry and White.
That is, whatever good was coming at the expense of something bad.
Player X would make a good move and score a touchdown because player Y missed a tackle.
My friend, Chief J, would be the pessimist.
"Another losing season," he would say.
I'd take the skeptical approach.
"Get back to me when we do this against somebody else," I said.
I would love, for example, us to scrimmage a Rutgers or a Villanova so I could put the spring game in some kind of context.
Right now, the football context is limited.
The best part about the day is the fellowship among Owl fans who haven't been together since November.
Sure, some players looked good today and that's really the biggest positive to come out of a spring game.
Former Owls' coach Bruce Arians used to preach something to the team before every practice.
"Get your work done today," he said, "and you'll do good things Saturday."
That's what Cherry and White and what this whole month was all about.
That's what the month of August will be about and the months leading up to August.
Get your work done.
I'll be a lot more excited about the trip to Army, especially to see a 100 percent Joe Jones and a 100 percent Adam DiMichele and in a meaningful game for the first time in a long time.
I promise.