Barlow opened his remarks about how preseason camp had gone for not only the players but the coaching staff as well.
 
"Just like many other coaches around the country it is an exciting time," Barlow said.  "You have a time when you have your student-athletes on campus prior to school starting and really just being able to focus on the whole one team one dream and being able to get some work in without the distractions of other things that take place on campus."
 
"All-in-all it was good and we do have a good number of guys coming back to our team that pretty well knows how we work and how we run camp.  The guys have bought into that vision and the coaches did a good job of keeping the guy energized and just making sure they had their attention to detail and they were committed to work every day.  It went as good as it could and obviously the dog days of camp get all of us at some point but the guys competed and tried to get into their best shape."
 
This week's opponent, Sam Houston State, played their first game of the season against FCS top-ranked Eastern Washington and getting to see them play on television provided an early look at what ASU will face Saturday in Huntsville.
 
"We open up at Sam Houston State and they have a lot of tradition," Barlow said.  "They are really good and were ranked before Saturday's game 14^th in the nation so it's a bit different.  It's a team that is out of conference for us, it's a new coaching staff there and we don't know a whole bunch about.  We know their winners.  Their coaching staff was at Delaware so we have our work cut out for us."
 
"They have 22 transfers on their team now so they have a lot of really good players.  We had their game on over in the complex and had the guys over here so it was a chance to see them.  Obviously it was not the inter cut version of the game, but it was an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the personnel of who is going to be playing in front of you and that is always a good thing.  It was beneficial but we still have to figure out who they are as a team and their identity."
 
ASU is off today (Monday) but will be on the practice field Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.  Wednesday's practice is scheduled for 3 p.m. and Thursday the team will practice at 11 a.m.  ASU will fly to Texas Friday and will have a walk through in Houston before Saturday's game.