Loyola’s projected starting quarterback Scott Twite took a snap Tuesday in a drill where Mornhinweg wanted players to take a hitch step forward, reset their feet and find their second read downfield.

It was a simple-enough exercise. But Mornhinweg was focused on the finer details.

“Hitch, reset, oh wow! That was excellent with your eyes,” the coach told Twite, who executed the rep flawlessly.

Mornhinweg focused heavily on practicing in-game maneuvers, ones he imparts to the likes of Baltimore’s Joe Flacco on Sundays. The coach hopes the dozen or so athletes at MCPS stadium can take with them and use year-round.

“Get them through some basic progressions and how to read a defense,” Mornhinweg said. “We got them through four of those types of scenarios and the most utilized so they can take that thought process and visualization and take it far.

“They can take it with them to the high school level, to the college level and even – I mean, that’s the way we do it in the NFL.”

Loyola head coach Todd Hughes, who joined the head men from Sentinel, Big Sky and Hellgate, said Mornhinweg’s teachings just reaffirmed the basics, while building confidence in a core-group of Missoula athletes.