What's 1 change you are going to make for practice.
Dec 17, 2016 21:46:44 GMT -6
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Post by Thad Wells on Dec 17, 2016 21:46:44 GMT -6
We started the year 2 and 4. We were playing kids one way and we were running practices like I had learned from so many college coaches at clinics and practices. We then changed to two way players and more of a traditional schedule. We won the next 8 out of 9, including 5 playoff games on the road to win our state title. Below are some things we now feel strong about in practices. (We have 80 players 9-12 and half are varsity, half JV.)
First, we do not practice on Monday. We do a character class for 45 minutes and watch film for 45 minutes. We break it up a bit to keep focus. (JV does a walk through during film. They play on Thursday.)
We now believe everyone must practice both sides. Not only for emergencies but we feel it makes the kids better overall players. Our offensive line immediately played more physical and gained confidence.
We have one staff, when varsity is on O the D coaches have JV and visa versa.
Tuesday is primarily varsity D except for the last 15 minutes. Then we flip Wednesday. Then Thursday is still full pads. We do half D and half O and the majority of both are team with good on good and a quick whistle.
This may be the best thing we changed. As the HC and OC I started running the scout team for our D. We just couldn't get good reps. On the weekends I watched their O and wrist coached it exactly. It was extremely detailed on their job. For example, it didn't say "power" it would say "rap for ps LB". I would then take the best players not on 1st team defense and make my scout team. I often played QB bc I could simulate it easier after watching film. We didn't huddle, I just called out the number on the wrist coach. We got at least 3x as many plays in vs holding up play cards. It was so effective we actually had two scout teams for the state championship week and they ran single wing. If you've played a single wing team you know how hard that is.
Then my varsity DC ran scout team for us when we were doing team O. He pretty much used his starting D as the scout team. We just had a couple start both ways. But several players played both sides at some point in each game.
On D days we did a tackling circuit, indys, inside/7 on 7, and team.
On O days we did indys, inside/7 on 7, and team.
Nothing fancy, just lots of reps and a demand for focus during practice. On offensive days we ran 80 plays on average.
We started each practice with a different STs or two and did not do a big review on Thursday like I've been a part of at other places.
First, we do not practice on Monday. We do a character class for 45 minutes and watch film for 45 minutes. We break it up a bit to keep focus. (JV does a walk through during film. They play on Thursday.)
We now believe everyone must practice both sides. Not only for emergencies but we feel it makes the kids better overall players. Our offensive line immediately played more physical and gained confidence.
We have one staff, when varsity is on O the D coaches have JV and visa versa.
Tuesday is primarily varsity D except for the last 15 minutes. Then we flip Wednesday. Then Thursday is still full pads. We do half D and half O and the majority of both are team with good on good and a quick whistle.
This may be the best thing we changed. As the HC and OC I started running the scout team for our D. We just couldn't get good reps. On the weekends I watched their O and wrist coached it exactly. It was extremely detailed on their job. For example, it didn't say "power" it would say "rap for ps LB". I would then take the best players not on 1st team defense and make my scout team. I often played QB bc I could simulate it easier after watching film. We didn't huddle, I just called out the number on the wrist coach. We got at least 3x as many plays in vs holding up play cards. It was so effective we actually had two scout teams for the state championship week and they ran single wing. If you've played a single wing team you know how hard that is.
Then my varsity DC ran scout team for us when we were doing team O. He pretty much used his starting D as the scout team. We just had a couple start both ways. But several players played both sides at some point in each game.
On D days we did a tackling circuit, indys, inside/7 on 7, and team.
On O days we did indys, inside/7 on 7, and team.
Nothing fancy, just lots of reps and a demand for focus during practice. On offensive days we ran 80 plays on average.
We started each practice with a different STs or two and did not do a big review on Thursday like I've been a part of at other places.