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Post by airraider on Jun 5, 2013 14:19:37 GMT -6
We are 9-noon, 9-11 on the field and in the weight room 11-12. Has worked well for us. Our staff meets at 830 to discuss practice or handle an equipment issue for a kid. We don't worry about the heat as we feel they will have to play in those conditions at some time. Just curious, any of you 6 am guys meet before practice? If so, what time? We lift at 6am and run/throw at 7am... so not really practice so to speak...
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Post by cqmiller on Jun 5, 2013 14:27:04 GMT -6
We meet Sunday night and go over the practice schedule for the week. Coaches report 20 minutes before practice to get roll-sheets in order and equipment they need for practice. We take roll and stretch for the last 15 minutes before the "official start time". PRACTICE starts at the time, not stretching starting then. Equipment is handled by position group during roll/stretch.
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Post by jg78 on Jun 5, 2013 16:42:53 GMT -6
Putting a couple of long water hoses together and dragging them across the field before practice helps a lot with the dew.
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Post by peacock1915 on Jun 5, 2013 17:36:31 GMT -6
Agreed, have done this before also. Putting a couple of long water hoses together and dragging them across the field before practice helps a lot with the dew.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 5, 2013 19:49:28 GMT -6
Drag a long piece of rope over the field, like a tug of war rope. Or cut it with a reel mower. Doubt you have a tarp big enough.
If you have a couple of golf carts or gators, the rope trick is straight off the golf course list of getting the fairways up and running for 6AM tee times.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Jun 6, 2013 5:55:09 GMT -6
How about putting tarps down at night for the spots where you'll be basing your drills out of like passing lines, agilities, and so on? Obviously won't help for most of the field but you could certainly have dry areas where your centers will be snapping, etc. That just might be the ticket! Im going to try that one tomorrow night. Did it work?
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 6, 2013 8:54:25 GMT -6
We meet Sunday night and go over the practice schedule for the week. Coaches report 20 minutes before practice to get roll-sheets in order and equipment they need for practice. We take roll and stretch for the last 15 minutes before the "official start time". PRACTICE starts at the time, not stretching starting then. Equipment is handled by position group during roll/stretch. You have meetings on Sunday night to discuss summer practices?
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Post by cqmiller on Jun 6, 2013 9:17:09 GMT -6
Coaches decided they would rather do that than show up 15 minutes earlier each day to put it together. I like it better too because it gives more than 15 minutes notice as to what drills and things to put together. We treat summer as its own "season" where we are teaching just passing game. I tell my coaches that I don't care when we do it, but it has to get done. They chose Sunday nights so it fits in with what we will do starting in fall.
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 6, 2013 9:48:57 GMT -6
Coaches decided they would rather do that than show up 15 minutes earlier each day to put it together. I like it better too because it gives more than 15 minutes notice as to what drills and things to put together. We treat summer as its own "season" where we are teaching just passing game. I tell my coaches that I don't care when we do it, but it has to get done. They chose Sunday nights so it fits in with what we will do starting in fall. Yikes. I just make a practice plan and email it out. I put what drills I want to see and leave any extra time to whatever they want to do. You just teach passing game in summer? Man. Our kids would get bored beyond tears. We only threw the ball 65 times in 11 games last year.
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Post by airraider on Jun 6, 2013 10:16:02 GMT -6
That just might be the ticket! Im going to try that one tomorrow night. Did it work? Was going to lay some plastic sheeting tonight for tomorrow morning... but of course its pouring outside right now.
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Post by John Knight on Jun 6, 2013 12:36:27 GMT -6
Not going to miss swamp foot!
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Post by airman on Jun 6, 2013 18:20:59 GMT -6
our grounds staff takes two john deere gators and attaches a old 100' garden hose to each gator. they drive over the football field. the garden hose knocks the dew off. have to be careful when you turn. 1 gator has to pivot while the other makes the sweep around. we have 6 practice fields and it takes 10 minutes tops.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 7, 2013 6:49:02 GMT -6
We used an old rope and two golf carts to do the same thing when I worked at a country club. However, swamp foot as we are calling it doesnt seem to bother anyone here except me, so noone wants to help me do that, and since the field has to be cut anyway, I usually get here early enough to run over it with the reel mower.
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Post by airraider on Jun 7, 2013 13:08:30 GMT -6
We did the tarps on a small area... about 30x90 feet.. then had the kids drag it across the field and it knocked it all off.. was still a little wet... but much better than before.
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Post by macdiiddy on Jun 11, 2013 21:27:41 GMT -6
We go 7:30-9 in June. Keeping it early allows for less conflict of scheduling with other things outside of football, like jobs or even worst AAU. The HC has been around for awhile and found its better to work around the Summer Basketball and Baseball schedule and try to share the athletes.
Plus we hit the ground running the first week school is over so kids are use to getting up that early for the last 10 months.
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