If you listen closely, past the dribbling of a basketball and far beyond the screeching shoes on the hardwood, you can hear a familiar but forgotten sound.It’s the sound of whistles, pads crashing together and the start of spring football.Starting Wednesday, the Kentucky football team will reconvene for four weeks of spring football practice. Spring football will culminate on April 24 at Commonwealth for the Blue/White Game.By that time, we will have gotten our first taste of the Joker Phillips regime. After seven successful years with Rich Brooks, Phillips will run the show. Operation Win has fully commenced.”The first phase of Operation Win was recruiting and we felt like we finished strong in recruiting,” Phillips said at Tuesday’s spring news conference. “The second phase has been on our offseason program. The thing you want to go in the offseason with and try to come out of the offseason with is having your football team well conditioned and also they’re mentally tougher. We feel like those two things are accomplished. We feel like are team is way ahead mentally and being tough.”The third phase, which is what we’re excited (about) – me probably more than anybody because now everything comes to a screeching halt as far as touring the country and talking to alums and those things – now it’s down to some football.”For the first time since taking over for the recently retired Brooks, Phillips will be able to put his imprint on the football team on the field. Phillips admitted to being a little “lost” when they broke off into individual workouts but has since got his feet underneath him.Now he’s eager to begin preparing for his first season as head coach.”The thing that I think a head coach has to do is, No. 1, when this thing first started, I wanted to make sure our offense and defense and special teams schemes are sound,” Phillips said. “The next thing I think I have to focus on is make sure we’re fundamentally sound. The third thing is making sure we’re playing with effort.”Phillips addressed a number of things Wednesday in a pre-spring football news conference, including injuries, position battles, position changes and the three-way race for the starting quarterback position. I’ll run through the major news, notes and battles headlining spring football practice 2010 in upcoming posts.The first seven spring football practices will be open the public. The team will hold a Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday practice schedule leading up to the Blue/White Game.