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Post by dport on Jun 26, 2014 13:13:15 GMT -6
I was talking to one of my assistant coaches the other day and he brought up something that I have never heard of, but it got me to thinking about changing our practice schedule. We are a smaller school where we have to quite a few kids play both ways. We have 5 coaches that coach both offense and defense, so the way we have done practice to this point is a 24 period practice with the first 12 is a defensive practice and the second 12 is an offensive practice. It has worked very well for us, but I am always wanting to make sure that we are doing things the best way, not necessarily my way.
At a different school, this other coach had one practice a week where they would practice more like a game. They would start off with a special team (kick off or return) then have a small offensive segment. Then work punt team and a small defensive segment. And continue that type of schedule for the whole practice. This was more of their team work day. The other day of hard practice was more of an individual practice.
That got me to thinking about working like this on both big work day. Something like a indo kick off period to start off Then a 2 period defensive indo period and then a punt return indo period. And then just keep this up. A 1 period special team segment working in both indo and team segments for 2 or 3 special teams a day and alternating between indo, group and team periods.
One of the positives I see of this is this is more like our kids will play on Fridays. Offense and defense alternating.
One of the problems is I think you lose a bit of the part whole progression that we get with the 12 and 12 practice schedule we have used in the past.
What are some thoughts you guys have?
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Post by dport on Jun 27, 2014 8:46:15 GMT -6
no thoughts?
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Post by coachd5085 on Jun 27, 2014 9:46:51 GMT -6
Coach..will you do that AFTER a warm up, and really emphasize the specials as part of practice? My one concern would be that the specials somehow becomes basically a warm up.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 9:52:34 GMT -6
We run a practice like this on Thursday in just helmets and shorts. We will go kick return. Run offensive pass on air until we score, kick the extra point, kickoff, play defense against the run, then punt return, then run offense, then backed up punt safe, then defense against the pass, punt block, then offensive mix until we score, two point plays. This is mainly geared to getting our offense, defense, and special teams on and off the field. We will also sometimes in the middle of session pull a kid off and say their are "injured". This forces all of the coaches and the subs to pay attention and make sure this player is subbed for an all special teams and possibly the other side of the ball as well.
I have never done this for an entire regular practice. Our practices are usually:
Monday-Offensive practice (indy, small group, 7 on 7, inside rune, screen, team, etc.) 30 min of Defense at the end just to line up to the opponents sets.
Tuesday-Defensive practice-30 min offensive team at the end.
Wednesday-Practice split in half. Team only. This is also where we work on situational ( 2 min, 4 min, goal line, back up, etc.)
Thursday-Described above. We also started a couple of years ago having these practices at 6:00 in the morning. It sucks getting up, but the kids like having the afternoon off and it allows everyone to attend frosh and JV games in the afternoon. If we have home F/JV games, a few of the boosters often have a BBQ for the varsity players, coaches and parents during the games.
Friday-Game Day!
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Post by coachirish on Jun 27, 2014 15:17:36 GMT -6
We run a practice like this on Thursday in just helmets and shorts. We will go kick return. Run offensive pass on air until we score, kick the extra point, kickoff, play defense against the run, then punt return, then run offense, then backed up punt safe, then defense against the pass, punt block, then offensive mix until we score, two point plays. This is mainly geared to getting our offense, defense, and special teams on and off the field. We will also sometimes in the middle of session pull a kid off and say their are "injured". This forces all of the coaches and the subs to pay attention and make sure this player is subbed for an all special teams and possibly the other side of the ball as well. I have never done this for an entire regular practice. Our practices are usually: Monday-Offensive practice (indy, small group, 7 on 7, inside rune, screen, team, etc.) 30 min of Defense at the end just to line up to the opponents sets. Tuesday-Defensive practice-30 min offensive team at the end. Wednesday-Practice split in half. Team only. This is also where we work on situational ( 2 min, 4 min, goal line, back up, etc.) Thursday-Described above. We also started a couple of years ago having these practices at 6:00 in the morning. It sucks getting up, but the kids like having the afternoon off and it allows everyone to attend frosh and JV games in the afternoon. If we have home F/JV games, a few of the boosters often have a BBQ for the varsity players, coaches and parents during the games. Friday-Game Day! I like your way of having a half/half on wednesday. Do you watch film as a team anywhere during the week? |
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Post by dport on Jun 27, 2014 19:04:07 GMT -6
I would have a specialty period at the beginning of practice for the kickers, snappers and holders. I have done a Thursday practice like this as well, but I was thinking about adding indo and making it a full practice with middle drill periods, 7 on 7 periods, team periods and other things like that. Basically have a special team period breaking up an offensive segment and then a special team period breaking up a defensive segment. I think it will keep practice moving, keep it fresh and more closely simulate what we are asking our kids to do on Friday nights.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 19:45:33 GMT -6
To answer a couple of questions, I forgot to add that we do a specialty period at the beginning of practice and practice kick return at the beginning of practice and punt at the end of offensive period (as these are the "offensive" special teams). We do kickoff at the beginning of defense and punt return at the end. We practice kicking extra points and field goals all during the offensive period on Wednesday and we kick every time we score regardless of what we are doing. This helps practice getting on and off after a score. We also watch about 30 minutes of film before Monday and Tuesday practice, but our big film day is Saturday after the game. We usually watch our film and selected clips from the upcoming opponent. Mon/Tue film is all upcoming opponent.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 19:49:45 GMT -6
Let me add that I have run a number of different types of practice and this has been my favorite way that I have done it in 20+ years of coaching. I will also say that it is not the only way, but we get everything covered, get to practice all our special teams, cover all situations, and get a set routine. Many of the time our 1st and 2nd round playoff games are held on Saturday. When this is the case we move everything back one day. It isn't the only way to do it, but has worked well for us.
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