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Fundamentals - fundamentals- fundamentals!
What you may lack in opportunity to teach individualized skills, try to make up in general fundamentals for all.

More of a philosophy than a practice plan, I know but with the numbers given,it obviously requires some deviation from what is more common

My very first year of coaching was as a frosh assistant on a two man staff. I coached OL and DL and our head coach had every one else

Keep it extremely simple here.

Have a coach for the front/OL and secondary/skill.

“Individual” periods become “group fundamental” periods. OL and TEs go one place, WR and backfield to another. Emphasis is in basic, bare-bones fundamentals for about a third to a half of practice since you’re already in “group.”

Then you go “team,” but you can use team periods to focus on specific plays by scripting practice. You don’t have to go a full 11-on-11 O vs D, here: this is a good time to work scrimmage-type drills like inside run drill, perimeter/7-on-7, a 2 group tackling circuit, special teams, etc.

You may wish to do an “offensive emphasis” day and a “defensive emphasis day” of practice to help focus everyone up.

With 30 to start, injuries and attrition are almost sure to wear your numbers down to the low-mid-20s, or even worse, before the year is done. You’ll need to cross train kids as much as possible and there may be times where you’re teaching a kid a new position in a week or two. Keep that in mind with how you do things schematically and in who you group where.

You can knock out a lot of reps in 2 hours with such low numbers if you’re focused and prepared with scripts. Try to keep the practices short and to the point so kids don’t get worn down mentally as well as physically.

As far as gameplan and game day stuff, divide that up however you two decide is best. With only 2 guys, there is plenty of work to go around.

Even with just 30 kids I would think you need one more body. Defensively you have the line, backers and secondary.

Offensively have the line, WR's and backfield. It is still April, I would find someone you can coach up into being a coach.

It is hard to make this work and it’s not what you’d ever want, but sometimes you might not get another coach who is competent or even willing to do as he’s told.

In cases like that, it’s still better to just put the kids with coaches who can give them some useful instruction rather than sticking your WRs or a whole defensive position group with some slappy who’s just going to make them regress or insert his ego into things in counterproductive ways.

Offensively, it can help here if you go old school and run something that doesn’t need much from the WRs, like a DW, SW, or Wing-T offense.

Defensively, 7 on 7 won’t help an offense like that much but it can be a good opportunity to concentrate on coaching up the DBs and LBs.

A situation like this is one where you probably won’t be able to run a conventional offense or defense due to the lack of coaches. Look at running a simple mirror defense of some kind that’s 100% man coverage or close to it, which makes it simple to coach and simple on newbs who just got moved to LB or DB to play.

The key to making a defense like that work is really working on that technique with your coverage guys so they know how to play it physically and in a way that allows them to handle guys who are faster. Since it’s one type of coverage, 2 coaches can still find time to do that. This means you better box with your DEs or keep a LB or two out of the coverage scheme so they can do it.

Another one might be to rotate your Indy time on defense. One day the LBs and DL work together on inside run drill stuff like block destruction while DBs get Indy time to focus on man techniques. On Day 2 the DBs and LBs do some perimeter/pass skelly stuff while the DL work Indy. Then to give the LBs some Indy time you have the DBs and DL do some tackling circuit stuff on Day 3 while the LBs work on their stuff.

This is unlikely to lead to championship caliber defense or offense, but it will give you a chance at being competitive against teams with equal or lesser talent and maybe take a win here and there from a more talented opponent who isn’t coached or executing well that night.

Film group and team periods and review and show kids what they have to change.

We had 3 coaches when I was in HS and there were 40-50 kids on the team.

HC- was OC/DC and handled the QB/RB/WR position and LB/DB coach
Assistant 1 OL/DL coach
Assistant 2 volunteer- took the group he was most comfortable with- we had 3 different guys in 4 years.

The HC was very organized, detailed play book for the changing coaches. Met with them numerous times.

blockandtackle is a positive person. Run what you feel comfortable. There have been 11 man teams here that have one state with as little as 15 players. It's all about game planning and putting your guys where they can perform the best. Good luck to you.