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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2012 16:30:20 GMT -6
Currently we sit at 6-0 and two games away from winning out league championship for the first time in school history. We are dragging though, and we have two VERY tough opponents left on our schedule, the league champ from 2 years ago, and the league runner up last season. What do you guys do to "mix things up" towards the end of the season? Haven't coached youth football in a "coon's age", so I'm struggling a bit to keep the fire ignited. Seems like our attention span is waning a bit, and competitoin drills (like I did with HS kids) don't really fire them up. Any suggestion?
Duece
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Post by kyle on Oct 16, 2012 20:47:56 GMT -6
Currently we sit at 6-0 and two games away from winning out league championship for the first time in school history. We are dragging though, and we have two VERY tough opponents left on our schedule, the league champ from 2 years ago, and the league runner up last season. What do you guys do to "mix things up" towards the end of the season? Haven't coached youth football in a "coon's age", so I'm struggling a bit to keep the fire ignited. Seems like our attention span is waning a bit, and competitoin drills (like I did with HS kids) don't really fire them up. Any suggestion? Duece Almost all of my competition drills have running backs and more than one tackler. The one who gets the tackle gets to be running back. They can choose to decline if they don't want to be it though. A lot of people don't want to be running back against two tacklers. If there's a blocker, which I like to call "hitters", and the running back wins, then the blocker gets to be the running back. Also, since these guys don't really know how to be running backs, I tell them to trucker the tackler every time. It raises the level of intensity because not the tacklers can't go soft. |
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Post by mariettablue on Oct 17, 2012 8:46:33 GMT -6
At the youth level it does get hard the farther the season goes to keep their attention. You have to kind of invoke a little more intensity but do it in a fun way. The best part to me is add a little competition and a "Reward" to the winning side. It really doesn't have to be anything more than less sprints or bragging rights but Kids play harder when fun is involved more than any other motivating factor.
Sometimes I'll do relay races rather than sprints.
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Post by coachseth on Oct 17, 2012 11:19:22 GMT -6
We've been swamped by injuries and now basketball. We're holding down the fort with a 16 man roster, so right now when we do have practice (which is a lot less than it was back in August) we go over our plays, do very limited tackling drills, and work more individual drills with our players.
We're currently 4-1 with 3 games left.
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Post by morris on Oct 18, 2012 16:19:50 GMT -6
When we hit those times (middle school ball) we as coaches remind over selves they are still kids. The suggestions made so far are great. What we do is try to something fun. That tends to get the kids relaxed and is just a way to get the kids focused again
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