Planning practice

We usually plan the next days practice after practice when everything is fresh in our minds from that days practice.

I plan after watching video of that days practice. I'll ask my position coaches if they need more time in certain areas, etc. After watching film I may decide we need more time in motion adjustments, blitz adjustments, or I may decide soemthing I thought was great Sunday ain't worth two bits after watching Monday;s practice and cancel it. But my staff doesn't leave Monday night until we all know what is going to happen Tuesday's practice.

We have the week sorted out fairly early, though I won't finalize my scout team script until the morning after practice when I've had a chance to watch the film and talk to each assistant. But we've got a fairly repetitive schedule and the guys know what they need to accomplish in their indi and group time. The script is what is the most variable for us.

Monday pre-practice--formation recognition, alignment rules, motion adjusts
Monday script--vs. good scenarios, very few "glitch" calls, our good call on their base play

Tuesday pre-practice--formation, alignment, motion review, play by formation tendency
Tuesday script--Base vs. all, adjustment problems, tough calls (they make a "good" call)

Wednesday pre-practice--obscure stuff, double shifts, etc.
Wed script--fix issues, Base vs. all, some tough calls, 3 gadgets, reps by preference

Thurs script--Spit and polish, high level of success, see it all, get it done

we have a schedule for the week that looks like this mostly



we plan out most of the week
but then we adjust day to day based on how practice is going, and what we HAVE to have working to win

If you follow the logic of Mike Leach then you plan out practice in the offseason for the whole year. We don't work to that degree but I do feel that practice needs to have a routine. All game planning for the week needs to be done on Sunday with reports ready to give the kids on Monday. You can't be good at something if you don't practice it. In the offseason we set the typical Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. Now each week the times we use might change slightly 5 minutes or so for indy, Group, and Team on each day. What we do in those sessions might change daily. Against option teams we run option team, against run teams we do more inside run during group, and against passing teams more 7 on 7. I agree with Brophy that Indy leads to Group which leads to Team which leads to the Game.

An easy solution that we use that may help you coach is to have a quick coaches meeting after practice. Keep it under 5 and quickly decide what was good and bad and if any adjustments need to be made to tomorrows practice so everyone is aware. Then the day of practice coaches can make adjustment ot practice scripts and turn those in time to be copied for practice.

Also one other thing we have incorporated into practice is we don't stretch to start we just go straight into indy. DBs start backpeddle at 1/2 speed work up to full, wr start routes 1/2 speed to full, etc. I got this idea from Sonny Dylkes previously at T Tech when he was talking about how they planned practice.

There are several templates like Tog's on a practice plan thread in the forms topic.

coachhuey.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=forms&action=display&thread=1163380832

ditto

as an assistant, it is the style I prefer. That way I know when I am going to set up which drill and how. It still gives you time to put a spin on something, talk technique or talk to your kids about it during the day/lunch/whenever so they know what you are doing to save time (less time explaining the drill).