KIcking team out of practice?

I did the same. Now we have this website where kids go on and some parents do to talk about there coaches and just rip them apart. I would love to let them know how i really felt. I walked into a crappy situation. The senior never bought into my system. Now the younger kids are.

never kicked the team out of practice (have kicked players out for lack of effort)...but I have been a part of / and have done this as a coach....we just STARTED OVER completely from the top (warm ups)

I remember in college, we started practice over 3 times.....that sucked.

This coach in college, also had us doing Oklahoma drill before a game because he was {censored}.

My High School coach did this 3 times when I was a sophmore in HS. He just walked out on the practice and told us we sucked. We finished that season 2-8 and probably should have finished about 4-6.

Was it effective?

No, it only made us disrespect him more.

If you have to kick your team off the field to motivate them, then the problem may be your relationship with your players. If the kids really respected you and wanted to play for you, they wouldn't be that unmotivated to practice. I'd take a hard look in the mirror at your coaching and ability to relate to the kids you coach.

Just my 2 cents.

If you don't want honest answers to things, then do not ask but here is my opinion and that is all it is:

Changed my post, so here it is:

Not a good idea.

My HS coached started us over from streching 4 times one day. We didn't have lights, but a lot of parents came and watched practic, (kind of practiced in a hole), so they moved thier cars and turned the headlights on. Practice from 3 to about 10:30 that night.

We have started over a few times but never kicked kids off the field. You start over a few times and they realize that they would rather get it right the first time. I was a varsity assistant in baseball for a little while and our head coach was hitting outfield/infield a couple of days before regionals. They missed the cut-off a few times and he just dropped his fungo and walked off the field. The gate to get back into the school was in center field so he took a good five minutes to leave with everyone just standing there watching him walk out. I ran the rest of practice and when I got back to the locker room the HC asked if the practice was better when he left. I said yes and he said good, never talked about it again. That team won the state title. Did the fact that the HC walked out of a practice make a difference in the title run? Probably not. But the look on the kids faces as he left the field was priceless.

I guess part of the reason i kicked them out is because of there loyalty to the old coach. I felt that i had to fight with them to listen to me. It also hurts when the old coach still talks to the kids and tells them you have no idea what you are talking about. I dont know how many times i have heard the kids say we should run this play or that play because we did it under the old coach. I finally had it and said kick the hell out, go home and make a decsion if you want to be apart of my program. I couldn't believe they came back the next day. THis was mainly to all the seniors. The underclassman are buying in to my program. I do like the idea of starting over right from the start.

Mike Holmgren walked out his practice(s) and won a super bowl.

We all have tossed players out. I have even tossed a few coaches out for a week. The reasons for such drastic measures are simple (energy/enthusiasm-items that the person can control). We as coaches make the punishment far too drastic sometimes.

Personally, I would have thrown all the seniors out or kicked them off the team. I would have had a very simple one-way chat with the former.

My high school coach walked off the field when I was a senior. For me personally, it was a motivator because I wanted to improve. I don't know about the rest of the team though.

I know he's not a football coach, but John Wooden would end practice if his team's intensity wasn't where it needed to be. What he was trying to do was get his players to view practice as privilege. It's a privilege he took away if they didn't perform to the best of their ability. I like that aspect of kicking a team out of practice. The man won 10 championships in 12 years, so I think he knew what he was doing.

For the team that I coached for last year, I don't know if that would work with them. They'd just be happy that they got out of practice early. They really never saw practice as a privilege. It was just one of the multiple things that they could be doing at the moment. Football wasn't special to them. It was on par with just going out and hanging out with their friends. If it wasn't entertaining, they didn't want to be doing it. So for them, getting kicked out of practice would be a blessing.

The other issue I have is do you kick them out of practice again if the intensity still isn't there? For instance, you kick them out of practice on Tuesday, they aren't intense again on wednesday do you kick them out again? So if you've lost 2 days of practice, what are you supposed to do on Friday? I guess it's a gamble because if you kick them out of practice and it fails, then what do you do at that point?

We did something similar about 4 years ago.

We just left...

We said "you are being completely uncoachable, you guys should try coaching each other".

We walked off and perched ourselves out of sight of the kids, but where we could still supervise them. They stood around and talked for a few minutes and then started running though the plays. After they had gotten back to their expected execution of the plays they ended that portion and proceeded to finish practice with some conditioning, just as we normally did.

It easily could've backfired, but we weren't getting anywhere at the time anyway. It brought them closer as a team. It also made them understand where we were coming from as coaches.

There were middle school kids by the way.

never have kicked a team out of practice. we have had bad days, we just go inside the small gym we have on campus and play dodge ball. some times you need fun days like this i have found.

I thought about putting my original comment backup, which I took off, because sometimes we say things we regret and when it is in print it is very hard to take back.

My thoughts are that a coach who needs to pull power plays has a low sense of self worth (Not that I don't at times). The problem is when you make kids feel like crap, it doesn't benefit anyone.

If you were divorcing your spouse would you blame it on the kids? No, so if practice is going poorly why would you blame it on the kids?

I would argue that nine times out of ten it is the coach who has the problem and it usually boils down to A. a lack of awareness of the players and the team and creativity or B. low self esteem and a need to play mind games into getting the kids to do what it is you want them to do. Poor work ethic comes from low expectations, lack of enthusiasm, and boredom/monotony.

Often times, length of practice is only to benefit the coach who cannot let any stone go unturned. I found I got better at tests in college with a good night's rest. Cramming and pushing did me little if any good; however, a conscientious long term effort to study daily for the long haul allowed me to rest easy the night before.

Just because a schedule says three hours doesn't always make it so. Vision and planning only do so good if the short term is all that matters.

That's a good point.