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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 19, 2010 21:55:15 GMT -6
What do you do when your players straggle into practice? Do you start drills, then adjust them to incorporate more as they arrive? Or do you make a few wait while you work with the ones you started with? Or do you stop completely and pick a different drill/activity once you realize your attendance is good enough for it?
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Post by Coach JR on Oct 19, 2010 22:15:04 GMT -6
If we're in indy time...which we haven't been in much since August, just work them in.
When we're in team, which is almost always...just use it as a good time to get a back up some reps if it's a missing starter. Then work the starter in at a good time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2010 13:00:29 GMT -6
We changed the practice time to a half hour later...if they're late for that it' on them
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 20, 2010 17:58:50 GMT -6
I like to use a drill that can handle people arriving without being disrupted, tackling a dummy as a basic example, someone arrives, goes to the back of the line, it's simple enough not to need explanation.
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Post by ojowens411 on Oct 22, 2010 6:18:25 GMT -6
We start without them. By the time we finish stretching and conditioning, most of the team is there...one thing I don't do is punish a kid for being late...I have a 9U team and they don't drive...so it's the parents fault not the kids
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 22, 2010 6:28:43 GMT -6
O J
How you doing?
Bob
We only have 19, 4 of my 19 play MS football, 2 have to travel quite aways. We start practice exactly on time, our stragglers get there & know exactly where to go. Usually everyone is there by the time we are doing our tackling circuit. If you wait for the stragglers I think you are setting president that it's ok to be late.
Joe
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Post by coachcomet on Oct 22, 2010 7:32:39 GMT -6
At the beginning of the season I had a couple parents tell me that they could not make it to practice by 6 every night. I understand that everyone can't make it by 6, heck my wife works in Dallas and we live south of Ft. Worth so I understand. About 5:50 I have all the kids that are there put their shoulder pads on and we start throwing the ball around. It allows everyone to get there heart rate up and start a sweat. Once we have 16 or 17 kids we start practice 21 on the team. The boys know that if they show up late that they still have to run the same as the rest of the team did at the beginning of practice. From there we start our fit tackling drill then break up into groups. The ones that are never on time are the same kids that really don't play that much. It surprised me to see that the really good players are all at practice 15 min ahead of time and their parents are the most vocal during games. Parents that are involved are priceless…. We have a coach that practices on the same field that gets irate when his players show up late. I have no idea why it bothers him so much, but I have heard my parents make comments about his actions when kids are not on time. The same guy has only won one game this season. I have learned from his mistakes that yelling at every little thing does not help you with 8-10 year old kids.  |
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