What kind of adjustments do you make to practice time as the

Two weeks ago we cut down Wednesday to 90 min. Best thing we did. We always cut down. Tuesday's are still full right now. But pretty soon.....we are entering week five of the season we will cut Tuesday down too. We will spend more time on video and weights.

I've read in the past about a lot of people who cut down on indy time throughout the season; this seems crazy to me. We are what we repeatedly do, and if you cut back on indy time during the season then your individual fundamentals will begin to wane. We definitely advance technique wise throughout the year (in spring we work on step 1, summer step 1 to 2, etc.) but by the season we are doing the complete drill at its highest form.

I don't really believe in cutting back on anything, assuming you are efficient to begin with. If you plan out your practices correctly, then you can maintain a steady level without burn out or being forced to cutback.

We have consistently cut to 1:15 on the field the 2nd half of the season the last 4 years. We do not cut indy. We cut team snaps back.

we cut our Team snaps to:

Offense: 10
Defense: 8
Specials: 5

never cut indy

This reminds me a conversation a reporter had with Nick Saban. IIRC, I think it was before the 2009 SECCG against Tebow and Florida.

Paraphrasing...

Reporter: "Coach, with such a big game coming up, are you doing anything special at practice?"

Saban: "If we knew a better way to practice we would have been doing it all year."

I agree with the not cutting it crowd. I can't see getting it done in any less time. We have a period clock. We stick to it and the practice schedule strictly. Practice goes by pretty fast.

We never cut our time, If we efficient that day then we'll end earlier. If not, then we go the distance.

Yea this is how we do things, if we get a jump on the day get moving and can stay moving and are more efficient then we get done earlier, if we drag A** like yesterday we go the distance and stay until we get done. I believe it was Urban Meyer that said we are going to get 2 1/2 good hours of practice if takes 3 hours to get it in then thats how long we will be out here. Thats kind of the way we approach it. Most of the time our guys get on the field and we get stuff done, but some days every so often practice is slow and there is not a whole lot you can do about it. What are you gonna do punish them do up downs and extra sprints or whatever you do which is just going to take longer? Now if slow practice and inefficiency is an epidemic then you have to figure out a way to get it to be up tempo.  

I think a lot depends on the needs of your team. For example, this week we're playing a double wing team and we haven't seen a lot of double wing type concepts all season so we're going to need to be on the field longer. However, the week after we're playing a spread zone readish type team and that's what our offense does and that's the identity of the majority of our opponents to this point so we probably won't be on the field as much.