non platoon practice plan questions

On the side of equipment, when I helped my old HS out and when I played there, it was full pads until walk through Thursday, where we did shells. Saturday we stretched without pads.

At the school I work at now, Monday depends on the coaches feel. Usually its pads. This is primarily our game plan day. Physical Practice is shorter with an emphasis on film and the plan for the week taking up 30 minutes or so before hand. Tuesday and Wednesday are full go. Thursday is again shells.

We are thinking of giving the players off on Saturday, a lot of our players have to work, especially in this economy. Then practice a normal monday, then lft / watch films and provide them dinner, for staying so late. Do you see any real set backs of not coming in on Saturday to watch films or condition?

If the kids don't come in on saturday for film, when are you going to teach them from their mistakes during games? If you are not platooning, then most of your kids are on the field all the time, so Fridays almost no coaching can really get done because the kids are on the field the whole time. The only time they can really stop and learn anything from the games is from the film.

Our first year at this school we didn't do the saturday thing either because of the same reasons you said. Looked back and noticed that the mistakes being made in weeks 1 & 2 were the same mistakes being made in weeks 9 & 10 because even though we drilled them in practice, the kids "thought" they were doing it, but never saw that they weren't... We fixed that in a way this last season. On sunday mornings anybody who brought $5 to the school would come over to my house and my fiance would cook them a big breakfast (bacon, eggs, pancakes, etc...) while we would go over Friday nights game. Then we would break and eat breakfast. After breakfast, we would sit down and watch film from our next opponent for about an hour. Then I'd let them swim in the pool or play my PS3 for about another hour, then we cook them a big spaghetti lunch.

Had about 10-15 kids every sunday (8-11 Varsity, 2-4 JV), and the money they bring just paid for all the food. Many of the kids we have are FAR below the poverty line, so $5 for two huge meals is a pretty good deal.

This year we are still gonna do that, but we are going to make it mandatory that they come to at least one of them. If they are not there on saturday at the school, then they better be at my house on sunday. That way, none of them can magically have "an emergency" 2 days in a row and skip out.