Same Practice Schedule Template Every Week?

I always have, I've never known why I should change.

There is a certain amount of time I get for practice, and I want a given pct. of it for indy time, a given for team, for spec teams, etc. There has never been a reason to change, change for the sake of change never made sense to me.

I would say that our schedule is 90-95% the same each week. We might add or subtract a period if we feel we need to work on something specific for that opponent, but that's the only change.

Roughly yes

Some minor tweaks here and there

We keep it the same. Why make major changes?

The more successful teams I've been a part of were consistent in their scheduling. They may have tweaked things an extended a period here or there or have added something in occasionally, but otherwise there was no change. Why should there be? You're just making more work for yourself when you have to reinvent the wheel every day.

The worst team I ever coached on was a different practice schedule everyday. I'd show up and never know how much individual time I was going to get until I got there and sometimes the HC would come up with an excuse to just decide 5 min. before we started to turn the whole practice into a stretching, conditioning, and then a 2 hour walkthrough with no drills at all being ran. We were horrendously bad in every way.

Same everyday.....

20 minutes of stretching lines
10 minutes of defensive team
80 minutes of offensive team
30 minutes of conditioning

I don't think he was talking about you. I think that he's saying that he was being sarcastic.

I speak fluent Sarcasm, which I learned by the Immersion Method growing up in northeast PA. I can say that sarcasm doesn't always work here. No matter how badly you overexaggerate something, no matter how ridiculous you make something sound, we've read something worse here. 

That is eerily similar to the practice plan at my last stop and I'm not being sarcastic.

Cut the conditioning by 20 minutes, cut 30 min. from offensive team, and then add 10-15 minute individual periods for both sides and that's exactly it.

Yeah, we were godawful, but that was clearly all the players fault for being unathletic and "missing football IQ"...

For newbies, that is an example of what NOT to do.

Where I'm at now...

Mon.  30 stretching and conditioning, 10 team o walkthrough, 10 team d walkthrough, 10 ST, 20 film, 40 lifting
Tues. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 45 O Indy, 30 Team O, 2X5 min water breaks
Wed. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 30 D Indy, 20 Team D, 40 lifting, 2X5 min water breaks
Thurs. 20 min. stretching, 40 min. ST, 30  min "game simulation" on air walkthrough
Fri: Game
No Sat. or Sun. work at all.

I wonder if we could be a little more efficient (doing football specific stuff rather than conditioning sprints) and wish we could do some offense on defensive days and vice versa, but I like having the long uninterrupted indy time for the linemen.  We seem to be more focused than when kids switch back and forth on the same day and sometimes get confused which side of the ball we're working.

OOPS...HAHAHA...

What would gagliardi's practice schedule look like?

One change we make is starting in week 3 we cut one period a week each day until the end of the season if we are a playoff team we do sometimes add a period or two back on as the opponents we are generally not as familiar with. Additionally, we have less contact days each week as we will taper our Wednesday to 1/2 pads, then eventually Monday we will go just helmets and eventually we will go Wednesday just helmets. We try to keep Tuesday a full padded practice all year but by the end of the year that is it. We have felt our kids are fresher and more prepared for practice and games by doing this. Additionally, we only condition the first week of the season after that we feel it generally does more harm then good, we do have very uptempo practices with very little down time that we feel conditions our players.

This.

To me, the only variable is if an upcoming opponent does something that might require a little more preparation than usual in a certain area. For example, if a team lines up in the swinging gate after every TD and either shifts or goes for two, that might require you to spend a few more minutes on your ST that week to prepare for it. Things like that might change the minutes up here and there, but the general practice appraoch should remain the same every week.