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Post by cltblkhscoach on Sept 27, 2008 17:45:43 GMT -6
Guys - how do you treat this? We are playing on Wednesday next week, then playing the 3-time reigning conference champion on Friday - with 27 kids overall, no JV, and one day to prepare for a true Wing-T offense after facing a Spread team on Wednesday night. Not to mention the physicality aspect of it. If you don't believe it, check out the Charlotte websites - its due to the Rosh Hashanah jewish holiday, yet no one else in the state is changing their days.
We didnt play this past Friday because of a bad rainstorm.
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Post by MaineManiac on Sept 27, 2008 18:21:05 GMT -6
Not ideal!
Obviously you had your game plan ready for Friday. I'd take the weekend to finish your next plan and work as many elements into your Monday/Tuesday practice without confusing your players. For instance, do you see anything similar on defense? Any common special teams elements? Obviously the offenses are near opposites.
I don't believe kids are placed into a situation where they are in physical danger, but surely there will be an impact given that their bodies have not recovered. Honestly, I'm shocked your AD would allow this.
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Post by PSS on Sept 27, 2008 21:22:05 GMT -6
Actually we are playing 2 games this week, Monday and Saturday. Got a head start today for second opponent in breaking down one film, won't trade the other until Tuesday.
Got to stay focused on one game at a time when dealing with the players. In my opinion it is way too easy for kids to lose focus on their assignments and be easily confused.
Best plan of attack would be to game plan for second game and to keep it within the capabilities of your players. Don't make it complicated.
Challenge your team to overcome this adversity, make it a major point throughout the entire week. Maybe like "You can do something that no one outside of this team believes can be done".
Good luck this next week, we are in a similar situation.
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Post by cltblkhscoach on Sept 28, 2008 11:52:06 GMT -6
Yeah, this was out of our AD's hands - our director of athletics for the county was the one that made that choice. As the OC, I'm not really going to make many changes, but the HC who is the DC has a huge challenge. They do run similar defensive fronts, but the things they do are a lot different out of them so that's going to be my challenge.
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Post by schultbear74 on Sept 28, 2008 12:25:50 GMT -6
A good chance to teach how to deal with adversity.
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Post by raiderpirates on Sept 30, 2008 18:32:31 GMT -6
Played two in a day before, as a Jr.League team, to give a team who had a forfeit someone to play, and to get backups more chances. We lost by two scores in the second game, which was bette rthan the first(played a team who was not as competitive).
If you have no huddle that works well and a package series, use those to shape out parts of the game where your other plans couldn;t be used.
Since special teams will be important in presumedly closer matchups, go for some trick plays there as well. If it works in one game it works in the other or sets up a counter?
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Post by morris on Sept 30, 2008 20:16:21 GMT -6
I do not know too many varsity programs that do this. Now on the MS level we have done this a number of times. We have even done 3 games in a little over 7 days. My suggestion is very light and a ton of on air and thud stuff. Work on the mental part because that is the first thing to go
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