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Post by gewingt on Mar 7, 2019 11:14:33 GMT -6
Looking to see what you do with your staff for practice? Do you coach both sides of the ball or do you coach one side of the ball? What do you do during group periods and team periods? We have about 70 players Senior to Frosh and we practice together. I have 8 total coaches. Would like to coach one side of the ball. Just looking at what you all do. Thank you
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Post by rosey65 on Mar 7, 2019 11:42:38 GMT -6
We coach 1 position whenever possible.
Due to lower numbers, all of our kids know a position on the other side of the ball, tho. So when the linemen are all doing a defensive day, i'm the b***h/manager for the DL coach, and vice versa for offensive days.
That way, when we are doing group/team drills (1on1, inside, team, etc) each position group has 1 coach overseeing them.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 7, 2019 14:49:25 GMT -6
We have 90 kids grades 10-12. There are 8 paid coaches and 2 volunteers for grades 10-12 and 3 paid coaches and 1 volunteer for frosh. Everyone coaches an offensive and defensive position with a "lead coach" and an assistant (these are my terms); we practice offense and defense every day. At the start of the season every player learns an offensive and defensive position. As the year goes on, some players play only one side of the ball, but we are not two-platoon.
I am the DC and coach the secondary. During individual offense and group pass I coach the JV/Soph receivers while another coach is the "lead coach" who works with the varsity receivers. During team offense, another coach and I run the scout defense.
During individual defense, I work with the varsity DB's, and another coach (the WR lead coach) works with the young guys. Both coaches work with both varsity and young guys during group pass. Both coaches also work with varsity during team defense-we do not wholesale sub during team defense; we will sub-in only the 1A's.
In a perfect world, we would two-platoon and coach one side of the ball; but our talent pool does not let us. At some positions there is a big gap in talent between our one's and our two's.
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Post by newhope on Mar 11, 2019 9:43:23 GMT -6
We have 90-110 kids (varies). We have 8 paid coaches and another 4-5 volunteers. We have 2 teams, varsity and JV. We have primarily a varsity staff and a JV staff, although we all work together. Our coaches coach one side of the ball, although some will help out on the other side. During individual periods, our offensive coaches coach our offensive players, both varsity and JV. During group and individual periods, we split up Varsity and JV. Coaches will help out on the other side--so during pass skel or inside run, we will have both offensive and defensive coaches working. During team, we service each other.
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 12, 2019 5:53:41 GMT -6
Where staff permits you'd like to have 1 coach with 1 position group, if you're a 2-platoon team. If you're a 1-platoon team then presumably every coach is, at the very least, a secondary coach on the opposite side.
But ultimately, the question is driven by logistics. Do you have enough coaches to do it? Does it fit with your practice plan? Does the breakdown of what each coach knows fit with each coach taking one position?
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Post by mholst40 on Mar 12, 2019 7:04:58 GMT -6
We coach our Varsity and JV teams together.
Coaches do 1 side of the ball. So, if Varsity is on defense, JV is on offense.
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Post by agap on Mar 12, 2019 9:12:43 GMT -6
Has anyone done both? One coach with one position group say on Tuesday, but on Wednesday 9-12 is combined with a "lead coach" and "assistant coach" for each position group?
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Post by bluboy on Mar 12, 2019 15:09:19 GMT -6
For those of you who practice V/JV together - what do you do with your freshmen? I was leery enough about having sophomores go against seniors, can't imagine having 9th graders going against kids who are older, more mature physically, had more time in weight room. |
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Post by bluboy on Mar 12, 2019 15:17:54 GMT -6
Sorry for the double post; I hit the wrong button. Our frosh practice separately (2 paid coaches and a volunteer); they are never with the varsity. From time to time we will send our lower level sophomores down to work/scrimmage with frosh. When we do this, we also send a coach. Our offensive scout team is often comprised of sophomores, but we don't let the varsity guys tee-off on them. Group and team periods are often thud with the defense simply getting to the BC and holding him up. We never tackle to the ground during these periods. We try to get more upperclassmen on the scout defense and work-in sophomores. Again, we don't want to beat-up the young guys.
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Post by coachdavis11 on Mar 13, 2019 7:08:11 GMT -6
Looking to see what you do with your staff for practice? Do you coach both sides of the ball or do you coach one side of the ball? What do you do during group periods and team periods? We have about 70 players Senior to Frosh and we practice together. I have 8 total coaches. Would like to coach one side of the ball. Just looking at what you all do. Thank you I have only been in a situation where there were 8 coaches and the HC divided us in half... 4 offensive guys and 4 defensive guys... when it was not "your" side of the ball you helped with whatever needed to be done... Running scout team, filming, etc..... |
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Post by kcbazooka on Mar 13, 2019 7:09:23 GMT -6
Our JV definitely get the shaft as far as team time. They seldom get to run our offense and defense once the season starts. Something we need to work on.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 13, 2019 10:15:54 GMT -6
During In-Season practices - when do JVs get to do Team? Are they going against Varsity? What do they do day before their games? During preseason the JV's get as much team time as varsity (we will run 4 groups during team periods). Once the season starts, scout offense and defense are really the JV team periods. Our JV games are on Mondays. JV get some "alone time" Thursdays while the varsity goes through pre-game and on Saturdays while varsity is watching film. |
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Post by MICoach on Mar 13, 2019 10:25:55 GMT -6
My old school platooned coaches completely - nobody coached both sides of the ball.
My current school splits it up kind of differently. I coach 9-12 OL, which is what I prefer - when varsity is on defense I'm coaching 9/10 OL and when they flip I get varsity OL. The DB, Lb, and WR coaches do the same thing. Our varsity DL coach is also varsity RB coach. The varsity OLB coach also coaches TE's/H's. HC/OC is the QB whisperer.
Then we have strictly fresh/JV coaches that fill the spots not covered above for the lower levels - DL, OLB's, TE's/H's, etc - and travel with them throughout practice.
It's kind of wacky but it works.
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Post by tigerpride on Mar 14, 2019 8:05:16 GMT -6
We have an offensive and defensive staff. We practice together 9-12. Instead of FR, JV and varsity games, we compete as a "frosh-more" team and varsity team. I love having 2 games per week instead of 3. Best decision i have made in years. I can't tell you how many times I've had a freshman team with 20 kids and as soon as you have an injury or two, you are scrambling to compete. Our kids get a ton of playing time and we try hard to 2-platoon the younger kids.
We break up the kids into two groups towards the end of the summer. Our defensive staff coaches defense daily and vice versa. On Monday, I am working with the varsity offense and the next day - I am working with the young offense. So of ALL of our kids are getting coached by varsity coaches. The younger kids can get more specialized coaching (its kind of hard for 2-3 frosh coaches to give every position its due attention to detail).
All of our kids learn O & D. Some kids, for example a slower lineman, may work offense every single day.
As we move into season, we split practices up a bit. Varsity Offense will have indy, small group and team while the young kids do defensive indy, group and team. Then we will do specials. Then switch and the kids will switch to their other position coaches.
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Post by tigerpride on Mar 14, 2019 8:08:10 GMT -6
I'll add that we don't have varsity offense vs young defense for things like Inside Drill but we do match them up in 7 on 7s. It helps both groups. Even though the varsity may be better and complete the majority of passes, the young guys are learning, dropping to their spots, etc.
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