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Post by touchdowng on Apr 24, 2007 23:11:32 GMT -6
We platoon our staff but our players get coached on both sides of the ball.
While or offensive staff coaches up the Varsity, the defensive staff coaches up the Frosh.
We need to move some of our 10th graders down with the Freshmen during practice until they are more ready to practice with the older players.
We've always kept the freshmen separate and now that we will mix in some less developed 10th graders with them, we have to find a good way to sell this idea to our players (and program).
Let's face it, kids are going to feel a huge demotion if they are practicing with the Freshmen but in order for them to be successful, they need this opportunity.
Other than just saying, "you're just not ready yet" what are some honest ways to sell this idea to these sophomores?
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Post by jjkuenzel on Apr 24, 2007 23:16:46 GMT -6
Well they won't get the crap kicked out of them every day on scout team. That has to be an added bonus. Plus they get as many shots as they want on cocky little freshman.
Will they be playing games with the 9th grade or 10th grade?
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Post by coachjd on Apr 25, 2007 5:10:13 GMT -6
we do this, but we split the practice up by Seniors/juniors and Sophs/freshmen. We move up a few sophs that are ready to play with us, but for the most part this has worked out well for us.
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Post by tog on Apr 25, 2007 5:27:55 GMT -6
Is your school big enough to ever field a jv team and a freshman team?
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Post by brophy on Apr 25, 2007 6:05:38 GMT -6
typically, you will see TWO freshmen squads, one sophomore squad, (part time JV squad) and then Varsity.
JV is comprised of sophs, non varsity starters, and some fresh.
How MANY kids are in the program? Kids would (IMO) dictate how many staff you should be allotted (from a safety standpoint)
I've known SOME staffs (ahem) that have encouraged a ton of kids to come out in the Fall to boost numbers to justify the coaching contracts given to the school.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 25, 2007 7:33:49 GMT -6
How many coaches do you have on your staff? I've thought about doing this at our school but just can't figure out how to make it work between the practices, games, kids, and coaches.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2007 7:37:23 GMT -6
We have our varsity squad, our JV which is non-starting juniors (about 40+ players), our sophs usually number around 40-50, and two frosh teams of approx. 30-35 each.
Our frosh staff has 4 full-timers and 2 part-timers, soph coaches and jv coaches are part of our varsity staff (on offensive days we have a few dropdown defensive coaches and vice versa). Though all of us coach the lower kids in 3-a-days, when the season starts there will be 3 of us (HC, OC, DC) who don't move down at all.
Nice set-up and the kids are all being taught the same thing. Our frosh staff is made up of a former varsity coach at our place who wanted out of the upper level and one of our former players, so we have nice carry-over in what we do.
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Post by knight9299 on Apr 25, 2007 9:30:11 GMT -6
we do this, but we split the practice up by Seniors/juniors and Sophs/freshmen. We move up a few sophs that are ready to play with us, but for the most part this has worked out well for us. This is how we have done it the past. JV squad made up of sophs & frsh. However, this year we are splitting sophs & frosh up. So if I'm lucky, I might have 20 sophomores. All because 2 sophomores last year played special teams only on JV, and the frosh that didnt play at all played in the JV B games. A group of parents thought this unfair. Going so far as telling the AD, principal & Super, that we should split our practice into 2 1 hour sessions. 1 hour we just work with frosh & 1 hour we work just with sophs. Thankfully they didn't get their wish. Sorry to go off on a rant there, but this year will be mighty interesting. |
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Post by spartancoach on Apr 25, 2007 9:49:18 GMT -6
My 2 cents:
We have about 75-90 srs, jrs and sophs, and about 40 fresh. Srs, Jrs and sophs practice together (Varsity and JV), fresh do their own thing.
Varsity coaches - 1. HC also coaches WRs (paid); 2. OC also coaches QBs (vol); 3. OL coach (vol); 4. RB coach is also special teams coord. (vol); 5. DC also coaches LBs (paid); 6. DL coach (paid); 7. DB coach (vol).
Freshmen Coaches - 1. HC is OC (paid); 2. DC (paid).
Varsity practices as 2 platoon, although there are always 2 or 3 kids that go both ways. No coaches cross over.
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