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Post by lbstunna on Sept 17, 2014 7:01:35 GMT -6
Last season I moved from a successful job in a smaller school to a tough job in a tough conference to a school that had lost 20 games in a row. We went 0-10 again and it was awful. This year things are much better and we are 3-1. The kids have really bought in.
We have team dinners every Thursday after practice but I'm looking to do something on a Wednesday night(s) after practice. Something that may take 5-10 minutes just to leave the kids feeling good after practice, relaxed but also maybe a something that brings them closer
By personality I have a dry humor and I'm not the knute speaker every day. Practice is such a routine despite trying to mix things up certain things need to get done to be successful every day.
Suggestions?
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Post by 33coach on Sept 17, 2014 8:23:50 GMT -6
Last season I moved from a successful job in a smaller school to a tough job in a tough conference to a school that had lost 20 games in a row. We went 0-10 again and it was awful. This year things are much better and we are 3-1. The kids have really bought in. We have team dinners every Thursday after practice but I'm looking to do something on a Wednesday night(s) after practice. Something that may take 5-10 minutes just to leave the kids feeling good after practice, relaxed but also maybe a something that brings them closer By personality I have a dry humor and I'm not the knute speaker every day. Practice is such a routine despite trying to mix things up certain things need to get done to be successful every day. Suggestions? Kids like games. Throw a frisbee out there and have them play ultimate frisbee for 10 minutes. (I've done it. It usually turns out to be a lot of fun) Sent from my VS980 4G using proboards |
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 17, 2014 8:38:24 GMT -6
Play ultimate football.
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Post by dubber on Sept 17, 2014 9:02:46 GMT -6
We call it "Fat Man" Football.
We like to do a period once a week call "Insanity".
It is a 10 minute period where we try to run as many plays as possible.
We keep track of our play count week to week, the kids really get into trying to beat that number.
When we started we got 18.......last two times we got 30. (It was funny this second time, because they are never able to keep count of the plays during the period, and wait for me to call it out once the HC calls "time". When I said "30" this time, there was a definite "kiss your sister" response that they only tied)
I would do this even if I weren't no huddle.
If you want to incentivize this more, take a bag of cookies out there. Win=get cookies. Lose=no cookies.
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Post by blackknight on Sept 17, 2014 16:38:22 GMT -6
We used to have "Joke of the Week" after practice on Wednesdays. Our DC brought the jokes. It was great when the jokes were funny and maybe better when they were not!
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Post by coachguy83 on Sept 18, 2014 2:39:14 GMT -6
We have divided our team into three houses and each Wednesday at the start of practice we have the weekly house games.
We have done relays with passing a dummy, egg tossing, snapping a football. We had races to see who can eat a can of cold Chef Boyardee the fastest with a teammate feeding him. Today we did a tug-a-war with six guys holding short pieces of rope around a trash can and you win by ripping the rope away from the guy next to you or pulling someone into the trash can.
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Post by CoachHam55 on Sept 18, 2014 5:20:08 GMT -6
Every Thursday, we do a Team Competition. Each grade level chooses a participant without knowing the game. The games are simple fun & silly. Some of the games we use are Red Light, Green Light, Sack Races, Trivia Contest, Dance Competition, Coach Impersonations/Skits, Big Man Punt Pass Kick, etc. Total points go toward a final prize & bragging rights. Certain weeks, the coaches will even participate. Never underestimate the impact of a coach willing to look silly with his players.
AJ
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Post by joe83843 on Sept 18, 2014 7:55:32 GMT -6
Lineman 7 on 7s are always fun. The QBs, RBs, and receivers really get into coaching up the linemen on how to throw, catch and run routes.
These two are more once a year things, but I've been at several programs that, in the middle of fall camp when everyone is exhausted, takes their team to a water park. The kids always love xbox Madden tournaments too, but that's usually something I've seen programs do to get people to come to off season workouts (i.e. you can only participate in the Madden Tournament if you attend x number of off-season workouts).
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