eric58
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Post by eric58 on Aug 29, 2007 22:00:31 GMT -6
Coaches, I'm coaching the freshmen level this year and I forgot of what it's like coaching kids this young. I was coaching at the JC level but I decided to take time off due to getting married in a few months. Well my little brother is playing frosh ball and for the 1st week their was only 2 coaches out there all week for all the kids. One of the coaches knew who I was and said they could use my help. So now I'm coaching the frosh team and we are way behind. HERE'S the problem. Our 1st team D is our 1st team O. After that the talent drops off BIG TIME. I mean our 1st team O is killing the scout D and our 1st team D is killing the scout O. Our backups don't want to make contact and we don't get any looks. To be honest these kids who are playing scout shouldn't be out there but we aren't allowed to cut kids. I know some coaches out there must have gone through this and what did you do?
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 29, 2007 22:40:17 GMT -6
you can always mix half first team and half scrubs, put starting DL in front of some starting OL, Put A starting corner vs a reciever, mix the teams up so scrubs will go against scrubs and and starters will go against starters when you run team. one drawback is they wont get used to playing together
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Post by spartancoach on Aug 30, 2007 7:40:28 GMT -6
half line instead of full team.
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Post by mitch on Aug 30, 2007 7:49:05 GMT -6
We are in the same situation on High School. We will have a period of half line, good on good, before Team O. We work on our base runs live during this period, and block dummies during Team O. I'm not a huge fan of blocking dummies, but blowing through the scout D really does us no good.
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Post by coach239 on Aug 30, 2007 7:59:50 GMT -6
I agree with mitch and all the above. If you go half line, or go inside run during your indy-O period you can put the best with the best. Also, I have found that on the freshemen level many kids dont understand the "motor running" concept. To get them in the habit of always being active, and always keeping their feet moving we hit the sleds everyday.
I sure hope those 11 starters who are on O AND D are in good shape!!
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Post by wingt74 on Aug 30, 2007 8:18:25 GMT -6
Can you scrim against JV? JV Backups?
My #1 drill
Split your entire team up into 4 small groups. (two groups if you don't have enough kids, need at least 24 kids...and even the groups out by talent/OL/RBs
Set it up for 1 group to be on offense and 1 group to be on defense.
Offense gets 3 players. Olineman, Lead Blocker, and a Ball carrier.
Defense gets a DLineman and a Linebacker.
Set up two lines of backs 5 yards a part
Each team get 10 attempts on offense. Team that scores the most "wins" (winning team usually is free from putting bags away)
...x..............................x.........
...x.............B...............x
...x..............................x
...x..............DL............x
...x..............OL............x
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Rotate everyone, with 4 teams you can have a mini tournament. You can really work on a lot here. 1 on 1 in the line, lead blocking, running hard/finishing a run, LB taking on a block etc.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2007 9:19:47 GMT -6
Does your program have enough players to where freshmen, JV, and Varsity are all separate teams? Building on wingt74's question, the first program would scrimmage freshmen vs. sophs on Thursday, because the sophs could get reps against someone besides the varsity players and our freshmen would have to step up the level of play.
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