After a week of official practice New Knoxville Football Coach Troy Rider is seeing progress with his group. He says while there is still a lot of work to be done between now and the season opener next Friday night against P-C-M is pleased with how things have come along. He adds the biggest change they are trying to make is going from a mentality of losing to a mentality of competing to win. He says the guys are buying into his system. Fans can see the Panthers in their first public scrimmage this Friday at Ken Locke Stadium at six. Admission is a bottle of Gatorade.