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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 8, 2021 11:17:22 GMT -6
For any of you "small school" guys....have you ever coached both middle and high school level football the same year? We are striking out finding quality guys to coach and will probably be short handed.
If so, I would be very curious to hear how that worked out, what schedule you used, how you formatted practice, any tips for success etc.
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Post by tog on Mar 8, 2021 11:27:17 GMT -6
have been there and done that
jr hi in the morning practice, high school in the afternoon
the jr hi games--we did have 1 official jr hi coach that took the team where they were going--usually of monday's for their games
monday was our high school teaching/walkthrough day---then we we get to the jr hi game as quick as we could
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Post by IronmanFootball on Mar 8, 2021 12:45:23 GMT -6
For any of you "small school" guys....have you ever coached both middle and high school level football the same year? We are striking out finding quality guys to coach and will probably be short handed. If so, I would be very curious to hear how that worked out, what schedule you used, how you formatted practice, any tips for success etc. Where are you located? |
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Post by freezeoption on Mar 9, 2021 9:15:46 GMT -6
Not at this school any more, but we did jr high and HS Indy together and group and split at team. I had 4 coaches including me. When we split sent two with jr high.
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 9, 2021 10:36:55 GMT -6
Not at this school any more, but we did jr high and HS Indy together and group and split at team. I had 4 coaches including me. When we split sent two with jr high. I was at a small school that had a JV that was basically the MS and varsity. 3 of us did the grades 7-9 ( if you were ANY good as a 9th grader you were on varsity) for about an hour and 15 right after school. Then when the HC and DC got back from driving their bus routes, me and 1 AC went to varsity. The other JV coach made sure all the JV kids got home. |
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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 9, 2021 10:46:59 GMT -6
Not at this school any more, but we did jr high and HS Indy together and group and split at team. I had 4 coaches including me. When we split sent two with jr high. I was at a small school that had a JV that was basically the MS and varsity. 3 of us did the grades 7-9 ( if you were ANY good as a 9th grader you were on varsity) for about an hour and 15 right after school. Then when the HC and DC got back from driving their bus routes, me and 1 AC went to varsity. The other JV coach made sure all the JV kids got home. HA! So I guess I shouldn't complain and just find a way! |
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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 9, 2021 10:48:03 GMT -6
Not at this school any more, but we did jr high and HS Indy together and group and split at team. I had 4 coaches including me. When we split sent two with jr high. We've done a little of that in the past but always had guys to coach the middle school at team time. We might have to look into that 2-2 split as well. |
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Post by CS on Mar 9, 2021 10:59:00 GMT -6
We coach 7-12 football as do all in small school ball around here
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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 9, 2021 11:09:59 GMT -6
We coach 7-12 football as do all in small school ball around here How do you organize practices? How many coaches do you have total? Also, when you're doing individual (I assume all together) how do you spend time so your older kids are getting quality reps and you're not spending all the time on the youngsters since they need so much more instruction? Thanks. |
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Post by CS on Mar 9, 2021 12:11:25 GMT -6
We coach 7-12 football as do all in small school ball around here How do you organize practices? How many coaches do you have total? Also, when you're doing individual (I assume all together) how do you spend time so your older kids are getting quality reps and you're not spending all the time on the youngsters since they need so much more instruction? Thanks. We have separate periods for all of them. 7th grade is what it is. We do our best. Jr high is 1st period here so we have them come in a little early and get about 1:30 a day with them. Sr. High is last period and after school. We will bring some 9th graders back after school if we need some extra bodies. If I knew your specific situation I may be able to help. We had to practice jr high with high school some this year because I was installing a new offense here with limited time due to covid. We have 4 coaches total and 1 of those shouldn't be a coach |
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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 9, 2021 16:02:19 GMT -6
How do you organize practices? How many coaches do you have total? Also, when you're doing individual (I assume all together) how do you spend time so your older kids are getting quality reps and you're not spending all the time on the youngsters since they need so much more instruction? Thanks. We have separate periods for all of them. 7th grade is what it is. We do our best. Jr high is 1st period here so we have them come in a little early and get about 1:30 a day with them. Sr. High is last period and after school. We will bring some 9th graders back after school if we need some extra bodies. If I knew your specific situation I may be able to help. We had to practice jr high with high school some this year because I was installing a new offense here with limited time due to covid. We have 4 coaches total and 1 of those shouldn't be a coach We will have both groups (7th and 8th) and (9-12) after school. We will have approx. 30 middle school kids and 40 9-12. We have 4 coaches as of today but hoping on at least 1 more. We don't the luxury of any school time with any of the groups. I'm guessing, if it comes to it, that we'll have to do individual periods all together and then split group and team periods up and divide up coaches. I'm hoping it doesn't come to this but trying to prepare for if we don't find anyone. |
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 9, 2021 18:05:54 GMT -6
We have separate periods for all of them. 7th grade is what it is. We do our best. Jr high is 1st period here so we have them come in a little early and get about 1:30 a day with them. Sr. High is last period and after school. We will bring some 9th graders back after school if we need some extra bodies. If I knew your specific situation I may be able to help. We had to practice jr high with high school some this year because I was installing a new offense here with limited time due to covid. We have 4 coaches total and 1 of those shouldn't be a coach We will have both groups (7th and 8th) and (9-12) after school. We will have approx. 30 middle school kids and 40 9-12. We have 4 coaches as of today but hoping on at least 1 more. We don't the luxury of any school time with any of the groups. I'm guessing, if it comes to it, that we'll have to do individual periods all together and then split group and team periods up and divide up coaches. I'm hoping it doesn't come to this but trying to prepare for if we don't find anyone. can you scratch up a body to take the 9-12 kids for 30-45 minutes as a study hall/then go get dressed while you coach the MS kids? Or vice versa depending on your demographics.... That way you can coach both efficiently without having to do the babysitting. I was at a BIG school that had to do this b/c of coaches, or lack thereof. |
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 9, 2021 18:12:08 GMT -6
When I was in HS we got out of school at 2:50.
The JV practiced right after school with the coaching staff and then the varsity came out at 5:00.
We did that b/c about half the football team drove school busses for the school b/c the HC was also the local school bus administrator.
Yes you heard that correctly... I drove a school bus before and after school my junior (16 years old) and senior year (17 years old).
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Post by CS on Mar 9, 2021 18:44:45 GMT -6
We have separate periods for all of them. 7th grade is what it is. We do our best. Jr high is 1st period here so we have them come in a little early and get about 1:30 a day with them. Sr. High is last period and after school. We will bring some 9th graders back after school if we need some extra bodies. If I knew your specific situation I may be able to help. We had to practice jr high with high school some this year because I was installing a new offense here with limited time due to covid. We have 4 coaches total and 1 of those shouldn't be a coach We will have both groups (7th and 8th) and (9-12) after school. We will have approx. 30 middle school kids and 40 9-12. We have 4 coaches as of today but hoping on at least 1 more. We don't the luxury of any school time with any of the groups. I'm guessing, if it comes to it, that we'll have to do individual periods all together and then split group and team periods up and divide up coaches. I'm hoping it doesn't come to this but trying to prepare for if we don't find anyone. Yeah. That’s a lot of kids of different levels. I would lift/film with the 9-12 with 1 guy and coach 7-8 with 3. Shouldn’t need more than an hour total for them. Then have 9-12 with all 4 |
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Post by Inthesticks on Mar 10, 2021 10:12:54 GMT -6
I think that could be a good fix. 1st session 9-12 lift first with 7 & 8 on the field for group & team / 2nd session - individual combined (at times separate) / 3rd session varsity group and team
Just have a lot of reorganizing in my practice plans to do.
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