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Post by mariner42 on Nov 2, 2016 10:02:40 GMT -6
Our frosh HC and I (JV HC) are struggling to get coaches out and we both lost key coaches prior to this season that we couldn't replace.
We are looking at ways to combine our practices so as to get better coaching to our kids and I'm curious how others have approached this.
Figuring out individual time seems straight forward. One group does O, the other D, switch.
What do you do for group work? Team?
Some things:
1-We do not bring up freshmen to JV unless dire circumstances, so mixing groups isn't much benefit.
2-We would be sharing the field with our varsity, meaning about 80 kids on our half of the field.
3-We have quality coaches for some spots but not others, I think this would help by letting us only need to hire 2 coaches total rather than 2 each.
Love to hear some thoughts.
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Post by JVD on Nov 2, 2016 10:57:29 GMT -6
Can you get the varsity on board too? Then you leverage not only the varsity staff, but also the upper classmen.
"ALL GUARDS WITH COACH SMITH!" Now that freshman guard will be learning from the same coach as the varsity...but the varsity players will also help teach him by their actions and he will also have a guy in school he can stop and ask a question of.
Obviously hitting drills have to be scripted for frosh on frosh, etc., but they will learn a lot from the older guys.
Hope this helps.
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 2, 2016 19:45:06 GMT -6
Can you get the varsity on board too? Then you leverage not only the varsity staff, but also the upper classmen. "ALL GUARDS WITH COACH SMITH!" Now that freshman guard will be learning from the same coach as the varsity...but the varsity players will also help teach him by their actions and he will also have a guy in school he can stop and ask a question of. Obviously hitting drills have to be scripted for frosh on frosh, etc., but they will learn a lot from the older guys. Hope this helps. Too many bodies in the same place for all three levels. We compete the frosh against the JV once a week, it gives the freshmen an understanding of how they are progressing and where they need to go. When some of them start competing and hitting with the sophomores, their season usually starts to take off. |
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Post by pvogel on Nov 2, 2016 20:08:59 GMT -6
I'd do so much fundamental stuff. Skill circuits. Blocking and tackling. Separate groups by age and size.
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Post by justaballcoach on Nov 4, 2016 10:24:30 GMT -6
How many kids do you have on each level? How much space do you have for practice? How much time and could you practice some at one time some at the other? How many total coaches varsity to freshman do you have?
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 4, 2016 15:56:37 GMT -6
How many kids do you have on each level? How much space do you have for practice? How much time and could you practice some at one time some at the other? How many total coaches varsity to freshman do you have? 45-50 frosh, ~40 JV usually. About half a field. Two hours, no. Right now we have five quality coaches between JV and frosh and three of those have time conflicts on average once a week. The other two are me and the frosh HC. We probably need two, maybe three more quality coaches if we are going to make this work. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 8:23:17 GMT -6
What grade levels play JV? Do you have Juniors and Seniors on it? How many coaches do you have to work with?
We do Freshmen and combined Freshman/Sophomore games. It winds up being about 40-50 kids, give or take. We practice them on one half of the field, too. The "JV" level (juniors who don't play much on varsity, plus sophomores) doesn't get their own practices because they're in with varsity (we have about 80 total kids in our program from 9-12)
Our practices with the lower level are pretty simple with 2 coaches for each side of the ball: they do Indy with varsity, then group periods with their JV coaches, we may do a blocking circuit/tackle circuit/whatever, then go to team, and then we switch and do it for the other side of the ball. We stay late and practice Special Teams with them on Thursday after varsity leaves following their short walkthrough.
We will divide the OL/backs and Front/Secondary up and work things simultaneously in group periods. To do that, we work the OL and front in the end zone while the backs/secondary have the other 50 yards of the field to work on their stuff.
One thing you could do if you want to do the classic inside run drill/pass skelly group periods is to do 2 huddles on each side at once and rotate kids in. JV runs a play against the JV scout D, then freshmen run in and run the same play against the freshmen scout, etc. You call the play for the next huddle while the first group is lining up to run it.
If you have enough coaches on the combined staffs to pull it off, you can take this a step further and do a pair of inside run drills or other drills in each corner of the end zone at once, which would get you about 30 kids involved at a time, or do inside run drill on 1/2 and a blocking or tackling drill in the other, then rotate kids through into their position specific group drills after a certain amount of time.
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