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Post by CS on Oct 13, 2019 13:51:18 GMT -6
This year's homecoming wasn't too bad. It was certainly a distraction in many ways but there weren't activities scheduled after practice that caused headaches. when I first started coaching, I worked at a school that had the following evening schedule for homecoming week: Monday: Float building, right after school. We actually had kids asking if they could skip practice to go build floats. Tuesday: Car/truck parade starting at 6pm. Everyone would deck out their car or truck and drive around town. We had kids whining that practice wasn't over early enough so they could drive around.. Wednesday: Homecoming dance. Yup, you read that right. A homecoming dance in the middle of the week. Thursday: Volleyball game followed by snake dance, pep rally and a bonfire. Friday: Parade starting at noon, ending at 1230pm and followed by another pep rally. Y’all play very well?
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Post by coachcb on Oct 13, 2019 15:41:05 GMT -6
This year's homecoming wasn't too bad. It was certainly a distraction in many ways but there weren't activities scheduled after practice that caused headaches. when I first started coaching, I worked at a school that had the following evening schedule for homecoming week: Monday: Float building, right after school. We actually had kids asking if they could skip practice to go build floats. Tuesday: Car/truck parade starting at 6pm. Everyone would deck out their car or truck and drive around town. We had kids whining that practice wasn't over early enough so they could drive around.. Wednesday: Homecoming dance. Yup, you read that right. A homecoming dance in the middle of the week. Thursday: Volleyball game followed by snake dance, pep rally and a bonfire. Friday: Parade starting at noon, ending at 1230pm and followed by another pep rally. Y’all play very well?
Nope. Homecoming was a nightmare for us every single year. We were on a rotating master schedule where every game was in-conference and counted. One year, we had one of the worst teams in the league (they'd won three games in four years) and we squeaked by, 14-7. The next year, we were ranked second in the state going into that game, played a solid middle tier team and lost 35-13.
Our HC knew that week was going to be a b-tch so he scheduled shorter, more intense practices but the focus still wasn't there. It's hard to blame the kids or come down hard on them when the entire school is in a state of controlled chaos but we still weren't happy with them. Those Thursday practices following the dance were terrible, even with a curfew in place.
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