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Post by dsealey on Jul 30, 2017 11:52:13 GMT -6
I am brainstorming on ways or things to do with both high school and youth football teams together. The youth teams practice on Monday and Thursday. They are typically stretching when our high school team is ending practice. Looking for suggestions on activities, games, talks, etc. that they can do together.
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Post by newt21 on Jul 30, 2017 15:34:11 GMT -6
Check with your state association, in some states the HS staff isn't allowed to do anything with the younger kids.
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Post by freezeoption on Jul 31, 2017 5:16:50 GMT -6
we did a high school buddy with the a jr high player, might have a couple to a player depending on numbers, it was a simple thing, we use to do a soap scrimmage and the buddies would match up and talk about each other on the mike in front of the crowd on the track, maybe a min. for the pair, we always encouraged them to call their buddy once a week and ask how things are going, that is about it,
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Post by huddlehut on Jul 31, 2017 21:24:16 GMT -6
Seriously? The rigors of a regular ol' football season aren't enough? You want to get involved with the little kids, too? Once a season might be ok but beyond that, with all due respect, I think that you might be nuts! Coach football. Leave that culture building stuff to the Twitter guys!
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Post by dsealey on Aug 1, 2017 10:51:00 GMT -6
I hear ya barking huddlehut. I was thinking just something after practice. I quick talk or something. Nothing too crazy.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Aug 1, 2017 11:45:54 GMT -6
we did a high school buddy with the a jr high player, might have a couple to a player depending on numbers, it was a simple thing, we use to do a soap scrimmage and the buddies would match up and talk about each other on the mike in front of the crowd on the track, maybe a min. for the pair, we always encouraged them to call their buddy once a week and ask how things are going, that is about it, Some years back I coached at a private combined middle/high school. We did something similar - we assigned a varsity player to each middle schooler of the same position. The varsity guys didn't do much - just chatted up the little guys when they saw them around campus during the day, came and watched their games (which were held after Saturday morning film). The middle school players were also allowed to be on the sidelines of the varsity game (they were supervised by the MS coaching staff and were bounced if they got in the way/acted up). I know some will say it's a safety issue but the MS coaches did a good job keeping them back and off to the side. The result was that our middle school program grew in a huge way - the middle school kids felt super special because they had juniors & seniors high-fiving them in the halls, talking to them, etc. Within a couple years it really helped our high school program because many of those middle school players went on to play high school ball - and they hit the ground running because the middle school ran the same system we ran.
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