Summer Practice - JV and Varsity together

As it's already been said, I can't see not practicing V/JV, but I've heard of leaving the freshman out of things which makes sense to me in a lot of ways. Here in Kentucky I'll use us as an example; we can start practice July 10....school, like many state's these days starts August 1 or that 1st week of August, so freshmen don't start until then.

What about the weight program? We are combining this year but will have 80 plus kids.

We are going 630am to eliminate excuse of college prep courses, SAt class, Summer school, job, etc. 

We practice them together. For the most part. Our summer practices are 5-7 PM, M-T-W-TH. I ask players to average more than 2 sessions per week. The 2 hours, 120 minutes, are divided into 3, 40-minute sessions. Session 1 the JV are in the weight room (or running) and the varsity are running (or in the weight room). Session 2 is reversed, and session 3 is football with everyone together, linemen over there, backs over here. We will likely have 55-65 players in the whole program go given the misses each day it's not like we're working with 65 kids every practice, more like 30 or so which makes it manageable. We go in the afternoons because all the coaches are off-campus and it gets hot here, it hit 112 last summer here in the CA Sierra foothills. But, it's a dry heat so you will mummify, not like down south where they have humidity so you rot.

We separate them. Varsity lifts, JV runs, then varsity run, JV lifts, then varsity practices O, JV practices D. We do this bc our varsity kids are and should be on a different level in the wt room than our freshmen. Also, our upper classmen are on a different level with their knowledge of our schemes and techniques, so we want to separate them so those young kids can get the appropriate level of instruction. Also helps with numbers in the Wt. room. We have 10 racks, so separating them keeps us from having 6 or 8 kids to a rack.

I've been at schools with 16 kids 9-12 and 180 kids 9-12. Every school I have ever been at has all went together.

Split them up for the S&C

Group A- Both Varsity and JV OL/DL/TE's....aka "Big Butts"
Group B- Both Varsity and JV Skill Players....aka "Lil Butts"

One group is in the weight room for about 30 minutes while the other is on the track/field doing agility.

That way the Seniors are passing along knowledge to guys who are playing the same position and they can grind.

Of course, you'll need at least two coaches there to make sure everything is going as planned.