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Post by machfu2001 on Jan 15, 2015 11:35:42 GMT -6
Coaches, what ideas do you have?
We have a roster of about 85 kids. We have 5-6 kids who will need to play on both sides of the ball. But the other 80 are really just 1-way players.
We've discussed several different options, but none of them seem too appealing to me. Thus, I'm sending this out....
Anxious to hear what you guys think!
Thanks in advance!
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Post by rudyrude9 on Jan 16, 2015 11:57:22 GMT -6
I'd suggest 2 platooning. With that many players you are doing the majority of your roster a diservice by having them play 2 spots. The 2 and half to 3 new starters will do just fine with double the reps. And your 2's will be that much better and more prepared for the following season.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jan 16, 2015 12:23:57 GMT -6
Coach, would I be right to assume then that you have defense operating on one side of the field, or their own field, while offense goes and does its own thing everyday? With those numbers, you probably should be.
We platooned, but would always have a stud or two that was just so good he would play both ways, or at least see some reps on both side. We would split their time. On Monday he'd do offensive indy and spend half of team time down on each end. On Tuesday he'd flip and do defensive indy and spend half of each time on each end etc. With those kind of numbers though usually the only players we would have go both ways were players who would be playing in D1 on Saturdays.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 16, 2015 12:25:18 GMT -6
several players on our "goalline" offense are defensive players. we have a couple of periods throughout the week where we work only that package. example: tuesday we use pre-practice and periods 1/2 to work goalline. wednesday we have a 10 minute post practice period (not everyone can actually use the showers at the same time, so it's not like these guys are having to stay late, really). Thursday we are running through various scenarios anyway so we have a goalline segment.
similarly, our nickel and dime package may use rec's. post practice monday is for some of that package. wednesday pre-practice, per 1/2 they go work it. obviously, thursday is scenarios so they work it.
basically, you just find some time among the coaches to work certain players for a few minutes here or there. example: we go 1on1 and 2on2 wr vs db every day. db's that may run routes can get work, too, etc. or simply ask "coach, can i use devon period 4 to work on tackling?"
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Post by machfu2001 on Jan 18, 2015 16:41:17 GMT -6
Rsmith627...this is the format I want to try. Thanks for the suggestion. I think we as coaches need to make sure that've only ask the difference makers tomreallyndomthis, and we need to keep it simple for them.
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Post by coachguy83 on Jan 19, 2015 2:08:58 GMT -6
We are a program trying to move in the direction of two platooning, but last season we just didn't have enough depth. So what we did was divide our practices into a general session (EDDs, skill circuits, etc.)and a specialty session (inside run, skelly, blitz period, etc.). Offense and defense did the positions in reverse order so the two way players would go to only the specialty periods on each side of the ball. We then do team for both sides of the ball and special teams to finish practice.
The advantage of this is it allowed us to use our stud athletes on both sides of the ball. The biggest down side is I don't think it allows those players to devolope skills as well because they are never a part of EDDs. I really think the area it may have hurt us in the most was ball security because two of our starting backs and our starting WR played both ways and did not work on ball security in drills everyday.
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 19, 2015 5:00:02 GMT -6
That many kids? Platooning should be easy. As a staff when you figure out which kids need to play both ways and decide which days they'll take INDY with which side of the ball.
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Post by coach2013 on Jan 19, 2015 5:29:46 GMT -6
Id still teach all of them indy o and indy d but not give reps during team time to the guys you do not anticipate playing offense/defense.
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Post by redandwhite on Jan 22, 2015 13:44:10 GMT -6
We are almost completely 2 platoon, but have a few kids that play in certain packages on both sides of the ball. What we went to this year is having some of our periods labelled as O+ or D+ During O+ periods, the defensive players who play both ways come over to practice offense, and D+ players are those offensive players who also play some defense, and join the defensive practice during D+ periods. We felt that it worked very well for us. Coaches would plan practices so that we would work on the specific packages during the Plus time.
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