Anyone ever coach ALL by yourself?

Yeah. Some pointers:

You'll end up doing more team work and less indy than you'd like.

Identify players that have some influence/leadership and lean on them to run their groups so you can manage from the middle.

Run as few drills as possible, instead of having 7 different drills to practice a down block, have 1, so they can run it themselves without getting confused, and fewer drills means longer periods, so you aren't constantly running around explaining the new drills

Your small roster will help, they'll be more manageable, and since you will need everyone to play 2 positions you can put everyone into 1 or 2 groups at once.

If you are going to be only coach for the season, I suggest you strongly consider the
Dbl wing with a landmark/track blocking scheme. Almost everyone on the offense will have similar skills to master (down block, or pull kick/lead) allowing for more Indy time. Everybody blocking, and everyone blocking similarly. Limited "technical" skill for QB once they master snap and spin/toss. Philosophy leads to no punting--which is always nice when you are the only coach.

If it is just spring, I would actually do very little team work. All fundy's maybe two vs two at a time so you can watch. maybe some oklahoma, some eye opener, slant and redirect etc. TACKLE TACKLE TACKLE . Half line/ half skel. During full skell, you could rotate OL's (since i am assuming everyone will play two positions) and vertical set and cover each pass for conditioning.

One suggestion to get you through spring ball and early summer is to only invite one position group out each day. For example: Monday - WR's, Tuesday - OL, Wednesday - QB's, Thursday - DB's etc... Some days you may need to limit skill work and invite combination groups like DL and LB's, or OL and RB's in order to install plays. It is going to be a long spring and you may not be able to get as much done as you would like but if you invite every player you really aren't getting as much done, its no more than being a rec-team coach having to coach it all at the same time and we all know that that isn't good enough!
The rules may be different in your state than in mine in the spring. In NC we are limited to only 21 players at a time and no body to body contact.

Further to riggsbm's suggestion. After you do each indy for each group on separate days, you bring them together half at a time. Day 1, you can do 7-on-7 with your skill guys focusing 1st half of practice on offense, then let your QB call the plays and focus 2nd half of practice on defense. The next day, you bring the big boys in and do the same, half of practice focusing on the OL and second half with the DL.

I had to do that a couple of times. Worked OL/DL for 2 hours, then brought in skill and worked them for 2 hours. In each practice we would go O first and D second. There were always a few who needed to practice the two hours in the middle of the four because they were a DE/FB type. That worked fine. I did this for the first week working nothing but fundamentals. The second week was all team. I still do it that way now, even with a full staff, because you get so much fundamental work done. Good Luck!

Another thing that helped: Engage all the kids, explain that you're alone and that you need their help in being particularly mature. They just might surprise you.

what about youth coaches..could you get them to help out?

Tough spot Coach!

I'd probably do as much circuit type stuff as possible for drill work. I know it's not ideal, but you could start with 2 circuits offensively--a blocking circuit and a skill circuit.

Except QB all positions at some point need to:
Down, base, reach block and block in space. Can you set up 3 stations, 1 for OL, 1 right next to them for RB, and 1 right next to that for WR. All do position specific down blocks, then reach, etc...It contains them, spreads them out enough, and makes the work position specific enough. You still don't have enough eyes, but....

For the offensive circuit all players need to...get out of their stance, avoid a defender (OL on a veer release or trap play), change direction, pursue. Take the same idea and develop position specific drills for these common skills so you can work with all at once.

Defensively do the same thing (taking on blocks, tackling, stripping the ball, etc...)

I'd also go with a lot of 1/2 line and group drills. I'm guessing you're spread offensively, but if I were a running team I'd do a lot of 2 group backfield drills where they are facing each other on the hose and running the same play (opposite directions) towards each other. Right next to them the OL can work scheme vs. barrels.

Just a few thoughts. Good luck, you're in a rough spot.

I did it for three weeks; two weeks of camp and the first week of the season. We really went straight back to fundamentals; lots of agility, blocking, tackling circuits. I took a two of my better leaders, coached them up before camp and had them give me a hand with the backfield footwork. They did a great job; ran about 10-15 minutes of EDDs on their own each day.

We lost our first game by 2 points; it can be done.

I would bring in groups as a pre-practice and run them through the drills, bring in OL and do all OL stuff for 30 minutes, then stretch and go into daily practice for an hour or so, then at the end you can keep one group late, WR and QB's. Or you can have a longer practice and don't keep anybody late.

I am not a big fan of letting kids run drills, even with great leaders they probably won't do it correctly or up to your standards. They will be forming bad habits that need to be fixed, sometimes bad habits can not be fixed if allowed to go too long.

Use spring ball time to install your offense, defense and specials. You can run pre-practice and hit each group a couple of times. You can also do alot of team defensive drills, plyo's, speed ladders/agility stuff.

I did for a number of seasons at a small program. Only in the last couple of seasons have we had a large staff.

The best thing to do is gather your captains up and explain that they need to show their leadership and help you out with drills and keepiong everyone in order.

Best thing to do is set everyone up and supervise. You can go and do individual things with groups but you need to be alert to everything else. When it comes to contact, setup 1 drill that involves a numebr of players and a high rotation aspect. So everyone gets to hit hard but are all in one place your can supervise. 3v3 or 4v4 drills are good for this and have a high tempo.

Sorry coach, youre about 5 hrs away.

Thats awesome, good job getting them out, don't be afraid to share your secret!

Airraider,
Congrats