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Post by mountainman on Jul 13, 2014 13:05:30 GMT -6
I graduated in 1988. Until my senior year, the off-season consisted of "lifting" three days per week. "Lifting" consisted of going into the weight room, which was often supervised by someone from the city parks and rec, not a coach, and bench pressing a little. Never went to football camp. Football would start with two-a-days on the first day of permissible practice.
My senior year we got a new coach. Coach brought in the Nebraska Computerized workout. We used to get a dot-matrix print out each week for a workout. I believe we lifted 4 days a week and then would go to the field and run a few sprints. No football work to speak of. It is also the first year we went to "camp". A couple of weeks before the season, we took the whole team to Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista. We staying in WWII era barracks, ate in the commissary, and had two a day practices there. At the time it was more than anyone else in our area did for a very long time.
We went from being a team that won about 2 games per year to playing in the state championship game a couple of seasons later when my brother was a senior. I don't know if the off season stuff was the difference or if the actual during season coaching was better (which it definitely was).
This was about 5% of what we do now. I am the DC at my alma mater now. We are perennially one of the top teams in the state in our division. Our kids probably do more in 1 week in the off-season than we did in 4 years of off-seasons.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 28, 2014 10:28:03 GMT -6
We were in a passing tourney last week and the other teams DC keeps yelling "They're running the same play every time!" Which was true. They were in man and we kept running our best man beater. We ran it 8 times in a row and scored 3 times. I felt like saying to him "Run another coverage, and we will run a different play." I am sure the kids knew we were running the same play, they just weren't in the right coverage to defend it.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 19:49:45 GMT -6
Let me add that I have run a number of different types of practice and this has been my favorite way that I have done it in 20+ years of coaching. I will also say that it is not the only way, but we get everything covered, get to practice all our special teams, cover all situations, and get a set routine. Many of the time our 1st and 2nd round playoff games are held on Saturday. When this is the case we move everything back one day. It isn't the only way to do it, but has worked well for us.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 19:45:33 GMT -6
To answer a couple of questions, I forgot to add that we do a specialty period at the beginning of practice and practice kick return at the beginning of practice and punt at the end of offensive period (as these are the "offensive" special teams). We do kickoff at the beginning of defense and punt return at the end. We practice kicking extra points and field goals all during the offensive period on Wednesday and we kick every time we score regardless of what we are doing. This helps practice getting on and off after a score. We also watch about 30 minutes of film before Monday and Tuesday practice, but our big film day is Saturday after the game. We usually watch our film and selected clips from the upcoming opponent. Mon/Tue film is all upcoming opponent.
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Post by mountainman on Jun 27, 2014 9:52:34 GMT -6
We run a practice like this on Thursday in just helmets and shorts. We will go kick return. Run offensive pass on air until we score, kick the extra point, kickoff, play defense against the run, then punt return, then run offense, then backed up punt safe, then defense against the pass, punt block, then offensive mix until we score, two point plays. This is mainly geared to getting our offense, defense, and special teams on and off the field. We will also sometimes in the middle of session pull a kid off and say their are "injured". This forces all of the coaches and the subs to pay attention and make sure this player is subbed for an all special teams and possibly the other side of the ball as well.
I have never done this for an entire regular practice. Our practices are usually:
Monday-Offensive practice (indy, small group, 7 on 7, inside rune, screen, team, etc.) 30 min of Defense at the end just to line up to the opponents sets.
Tuesday-Defensive practice-30 min offensive team at the end.
Wednesday-Practice split in half. Team only. This is also where we work on situational ( 2 min, 4 min, goal line, back up, etc.)
Thursday-Described above. We also started a couple of years ago having these practices at 6:00 in the morning. It sucks getting up, but the kids like having the afternoon off and it allows everyone to attend frosh and JV games in the afternoon. If we have home F/JV games, a few of the boosters often have a BBQ for the varsity players, coaches and parents during the games.
Friday-Game Day!
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Post by mountainman on Sept 18, 2011 9:27:24 GMT -6
This may sound stupid, but 53-22 is only a 31 point victory. That is a 4-5 touchdown differential depending on PAT's missed or made. If we kept score like baseball or soccer, that is a four to five point victory. I routinely see little league baseball and AYSO games with much higher point differentials and no one seems to get too upset about it. 35-0 in football just sounds a lot worse than 5-0 in baseball or soccer.
I don't really know what my point is other than football seems to have this "mystique" that if you win by 30+ points then it is the winning coaches job to keep the score down and be "sportsmanlike". Funny that this rules doesn't apply across the board to all sports.
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Post by mountainman on Dec 7, 2010 10:59:53 GMT -6
In Arizona www.aia365.com/videos.phpThis site has all championship games, all divisions, and many of the playoff games as well. It also has games throughout the season and other sports championship games as well.
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