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Post by CoachHam55 on Jan 14, 2011 7:12:40 GMT -6
I'm in the process of applying for my first head coaching job. I had a question about practice schedules.
I have always played & coached at schools that play Saturday games. We watch film, get treatment/rehab, & do light conditioning on Mondays. Tuesday-Thursday were full pads. Friday is a "helmets only" walk through.
This to which I am applying plays on Friday nights, so I am interested in knowing, generally, how do you structure your practices Mon-Thurs?
Thanks in advance AJ
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arbond
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Post by arbond on Jan 14, 2011 7:28:47 GMT -6
MONDAY - film of upcoming opponent (we do review of Friday's game on Sat. am) - weight room - while linemen are in weight room...... - .......backs are running through new plays for the week and looking at opponents plays in gym...then switch
TUESDAY - full pads -Special Teams - Kicking teams (X Point, Punt, Kickoff) - Offensive Indy - Defensive Team: Opponents best plays, Red Zone Defense - Offensive Team: Opening Series, 3rd Down plays, "4 Yards" (1st and 2nd down plays trying to get 4 yards on each play)
WEDNESDAY - Full Pads - Special Teams: Receiving Teams (Punt and Kickoff Return) and Two Point Plays - Defense Indy - Defense Team: 3rd down (long, Med, short), 4th down - Offense Team: Yellow Zone, Red Zone, 4th and 1, "Indy" series - Team Conditioning
THURSDAY - shorts and helmets - pregame field routine - all special teams fly through - Offense: Go over: Opening series, new plays of the week, "Indy" series - Defense: Opponents 15 best plays - Offense: 2 minute offense, 4 minute offense, "Must win" plays - TT&T: Thursday test and treats: test players on opponent tendancies and our plans with some sort of treat provided.
That is my plan for my first year as HC next fall.
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Post by JVD on Jan 14, 2011 7:29:02 GMT -6
Hey Coach,
There are a million ways to do it.
Here's what we do:
MON: Film and Team O vs. that weeks D. TUE: Team D vs. that weeks O. WED: about 50% of both O and D THUR: Special teams 1/3 O 1/3 D 1/3 Then spegetti! (For some it's the best part of the week!)
Above is not ALL we do...but it's the big rocks. Hope this helps.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 14, 2011 8:43:07 GMT -6
I'm in the process of applying for my first head coaching job. I had a question about practice schedules. I have always played & coached at schools that play Saturday games. We watch film, get treatment/rehab, & do light conditioning on Mondays. Tuesday-Thursday were full pads. Friday is a "helmets only" walk through. This to which I am applying plays on Friday nights, so I am interested in knowing, generally, how do you structure your practices Mon-Thurs? Thanks in advance AJ um, just move everything back a day basically. last year's monday becomes next year's saturday last year's tuesday is now next year's monday last year's wednesday is now next year's tuesday last year's thursday is now next year's wednesday last year's friday is now next year's thursday doesn't seem to be that hard
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Post by CoachHam55 on Jan 14, 2011 9:09:03 GMT -6
I'm in the process of applying for my first head coaching job. I had a question about practice schedules. I have always played & coached at schools that play Saturday games. We watch film, get treatment/rehab, & do light conditioning on Mondays. Tuesday-Thursday were full pads. Friday is a "helmets only" walk through. This to which I am applying plays on Friday nights, so I am interested in knowing, generally, how do you structure your practices Mon-Thurs? Thanks in advance AJ um, just move everything back a day basically. last year's monday becomes next year's saturday last year's tuesday is now next year's monday last year's wednesday is now next year's tuesday last year's thursday is now next year's wednesday last year's friday is now next year's thursday doesn't seem to be that hard I should have included in my original post that Saturdays are not an option in this district. A better question would be: Any advice on condensing 5 days of practice into 4 days? What certain things do you find essential & non-essential? Thanks again for all the responses. They are appreciated. AJ
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Post by phantom on Jan 14, 2011 10:48:32 GMT -6
Monday:
Weights Film of our game (maybe some of the next opponent) Walk through ST, O, and D scout report and game plan
Tuesday: ST Offense (Indy, Inside, 7 on 7, Team)
Wednesday ST Defense (same as above)
Thursday Weights Walk-throughs
Friday Game
Saturday No organized activities. May need to scout. Coordinators prep game plan
Sunday 5:00 Staff meeting. Coordinators bring tentative game plan.
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Post by blb on Jan 14, 2011 10:56:30 GMT -6
phantom, out of curiosity how many kids in your school and how many typically on your team?
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Post by phantom on Jan 14, 2011 11:11:05 GMT -6
phantom, out of curiosity how many kids in your school and how many typically on your team? About 1200 kids in the school. We'll have about 80 kids on the team, varsity and JV (no freshman team).
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Post by blb on Jan 14, 2011 11:15:05 GMT -6
Do Varsity and JV practice separately, or together?
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Post by phantom on Jan 14, 2011 11:23:17 GMT -6
Do Varsity and JV practice separately, or together? Separately except for the few kids who we think may be able to eventually help the varsity. They practice with the varsity but play JV games.
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Post by jgordon1 on Jan 14, 2011 20:40:07 GMT -6
Phantom, How long are your practices..Do you have separate JV coaches
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Post by runtoball on Jan 14, 2011 22:24:53 GMT -6
We go 4 days a week. I have no film software (hudl or what not). so here's what we do.
Mon - I have notes made on first half of our film and anything i want to show in second half to makeit go quicker. then we will watch opponent film, usually a quarter or so of each game plus anything specific i want the kids to see. Then we go out, walk through some things w/ team O and D (certain formations, blocking schemes, etc.). the problem is when jv games start. we're a small school with only 30 or so kids playing. so monday's with jv games are a pain.
tue - full pads, fundamental work, tackling circiut, special teams, D indy, team D, O indy, team O, condition. we throw in some challenges and such to spice it up some.
wed - pretty much same as tue. we will back off and go half pads later in year, and back off the tackling a lot
thur - helmet only walk throughs
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Post by phantom on Jan 14, 2011 23:17:18 GMT -6
Phantom, How long are your practices..Do you have separate JV coaches Our practices go about 2.5 hours. We do have a separate staff for JVs.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 15, 2011 7:52:56 GMT -6
runtoball, how long are your practices normally?
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Post by runtoball on Jan 15, 2011 9:08:09 GMT -6
Try to keep them at two hours. at the very longest we get up to 2:20.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 15, 2011 9:49:46 GMT -6
Could you breakdown how long you give each period with your schedule? In past schools I've been at we've been close to three hours following that format of practice.
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Post by playsmart on Jan 15, 2011 10:25:12 GMT -6
um, just move everything back a day basically. last year's monday becomes next year's saturday last year's tuesday is now next year's monday last year's wednesday is now next year's tuesday last year's thursday is now next year's wednesday last year's friday is now next year's thursday doesn't seem to be that hard I should have included in my original post that Saturdays are not an option in this district. A better question would be: Any advice on condensing 5 days of practice into 4 days? What certain things do you find essential & non-essential? Thanks again for all the responses. They are appreciated. AJ I am guessing that your stuff that you usually do on Mondays doesn't take very long (We come in on Saturdays for about an 1:30). You could be all of your Monday stuff on Monday mornings and then move everything back one day like Coach Huey said.
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Post by runtoball on Jan 18, 2011 14:33:46 GMT -6
buckeye, are you wanting a sample of our schedule for a Tuesday/Wednesday?
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 18, 2011 17:09:25 GMT -6
Yes, that would be great if you don't mind.
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Post by runtoball on Jan 19, 2011 14:44:57 GMT -6
I don't have one with me at the moment (and i forget things if I don't have them written down), but I will try to get as close to possible here. keep in mind we only have about 30 kids out, so we can get a lot of reps in during a 10 min period. We also really try to stress to the kids to get as many reps in as possible quickly and to do them properly so we can get out early. We don't introduce 100 different drills, so we can teach most of our drills within the first week of camp and "coach on the fly" as they say in the clinics. Basically we don't have to spend quite so much time stopping to teach something, we can tell a kid something they're doing wrong and they can fix it. Some cases we have to stop a drill to demonstrate and we lose reps, but the next day we can get a lot of reps in again.
3:30-3:40 - schute/sled (team warm up) later in the season we would do some passing game stuff here b/c our passing game was terrible and needed help 3:40-3:50 - tackling circuit - had 4 stations, 3 minutes at each station 3:50 - 4 - special teams - tried to do ko/kor on tuesday, p/pr on wed 4 - 405 - water 405 -430 - d endo/group 430 -440 - team d 440 - 445 - water 445-510 - o endo/group 510 - 520 - team o 520 - 525 - water 525-535 - conditioning
This would have been an early season schedule. Later in the year we would have more team time and less endo/special teams. We don't do a whole lot of team D early in the year b/c our scout team isn't good enough to give us a look anyway. So we try to do some mental reps, making sure we know where to align/what to expect out of formations. We do more of reads/fits in endo time, or we do some half line/inside run so we can go good on good in endo time. We are a double wing team, so we don't have as many plays to rep as many teams. Team O will still run over some practices and we will get out 10 - 15 minutes late.
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