How much actual practice in the summer?

We will do 20 hrs the second week of July as a team camp. We just are doing this to prep for a contact camp the following week. I don't know all the logestics but basically in wa they have to have so many practices before they can go full contact which they will be at the following camp.

Honestly, I dunno. That was somewhat the basis for the question.

No equipment- maybe guardian caps- shorts, t shirts, cleats.

We are at 4 hours a week in July. Maybe I'm not doing enough? I have 2 hours of defense a week in July. 8 hours total of defense.

 I guess three hours a week. We have a team camp that'll be about 9 hours total but other than that about an hour a day, three days a week. 

Monday-1 hour of offense, then lift and run. Tuesday-1 hour of defense then lift and run. Wed-2 hours offense and defense no lifting. Thurs-1 hour, 30 min offense skills and 30 min defense skills then lift and run. So 5 hours total.

4 hours a week at the most. A lot of times it ends up being less than that. I do consider 7 on 7s part of "practice" though as the ones we enter aren't tournaments and are very informal. We normally do two hours of 7 on 7 a week, although last week and this week have been a little busier than normal in that regard.

1 1/2 hours a week in June and half of July. We have 6 days of camp in July scheduled that are scheduled to last 2 hours each, so supposedly 12 hours in July. I doubt we go 2 hours a day.

In all, if we actually go all 2 hours of camp those nights, we'll have 21 1/2 hours for the entire summer actually on the practice field doing activities. We don't ever do classroom stuff (for my money it's a waste- 90% of your kids aren't listening when they're in your classroom for school- the percentage doesn't increase just because it's about football).

In the North Coast Section of California they can, and do, go full pads all summer. The situation is that CIF basically shuts down after the last hole of the Men's Golf Tournament. When CIF closes down, so do most of the sections. So it depends on the section, but the NCS you could setup competitive leagues, practice 2-4 hours a day, 7 days a week, in full gear, as long as the school is ok with the use of the gear and facilities. When I coached there we would do weights and then practice for 1-1.5 hours in gear. I'm not sure it did a lot for us, we weren't that good anyway, but other teams took advantage of it and got a lot better. For the NCS I think it was more of a 'legalization' of something that some coaches/schools were doing anyway.

Talk about wearing you down. There is no need for 2-days, that is just a continuation of what you'd been doing all summer, so the extra time is just extra practice. But coming up with practice plans and attendance and alternatives and variations because of vacations, and camps, and all that all summer wears on the coaching staff. Everyone needs down time and when you can go all summer, but when you know the schools in your area are going all summer, and schools in the league/section are going all summer, you feel you have to just to keep even. Which is about what we did, keep even. Maybe.

5 hours a week

I had a camp in june 5 days 2 hours each, have another one in july, I go Monday through Thursday 6-8 am for weights and conditioning, we don't have spring ball, we get 25 contact days through out the summer, we are allowed the 2 five day camps, so just weight days 8 hours a week,

I would like to add that those 2 five day camps count on my 25 contact days, some coaches do several things because it still counts as one day on the contact day, so some may have weights, then camp, then 7 on 7, three activities but counts as one contact day

We have 12 hours practice in June plus weights.  We have 24 total hours in July plus weights and through out the summer we participate in 3  7 on 7's. 

I dunno, 36 hours of football over the course of 2 + months doesn't seem like that much to me. We get out of school the last week in May and don't start until 2nd Monday in June. That's almost 2 weeks of nothing. We take off all through the 4ht holiday, that's 9 days with nothing football related, we have our last summer practice 18 days before the season starts and do nothing. 

I guess we are 100% or not at all. Just us.

One of the questions I have for those of you who seem to be kind of "anti-practice" during the summer (not calling anyone out, I believe as much or more than anybody different strokes for different folks) is when do your players perfect their craft?

For example, baseball has summer and fall leagues and countless private sessions for pitching and hitting.  Soccer has Spring and fall leagues, basketball ....'nuff said. Volleyball is as bad as basketball, etc. 

I've always felt that the summer was really the only pre-season prep we have for our sport outside of lifting (which in our district is open to anybody who wants to use it, so not primarily a FB activity). What's so bad about working the kids some? Personally I feel it's the only time we can really hone their skills and I see nothing wrong w/ keeping HS kids on somewhat of a regulated regimen. I mean they are going to have to be on one through the rest of lives anyway right? JMO.

PS - I openly support other sports programs and extra curricular activities during the summer that conflict w/ what we do as well. I have kids miss due to boy scouts, foreign language trips, etc. Clearly these other entities are not afraid to ask for our kids time. Why should we be? Not looking to brawl, just curious of the thought process.