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Post by bulldog on May 19, 2006 12:24:31 GMT -6
Looking at the post for those schools in Georgia, it got me wondering how many of you coach players on both sides of the ball. I see a huge advantage to those schools that have separate offensive and defensive staffs - and have one-way players. Double the practice time!
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Post by cqmiller on May 19, 2006 12:26:55 GMT -6
Our staff coaches both sides for the most part. We don't have the #'s to do a "platoon" system. We need the kids to at least have some understanding on both sides of the ball, because injuries ALWAYS happen.
I wish we could do one way, and have 2x the practice time. Unfortuneately, we don't have the #'s for it.
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Post by coachjd on May 20, 2006 6:12:34 GMT -6
We practice 9-12 and have our 9th/10th grades and 11th/12th grades grouped. When our varsity is on offense the 9th and 10th grade are having a defensive practice and then we rotate them. Now each coach can specialize and each coach has an opportunity to work with every kid in the program in his position group. So now terminology, drills, etc... are consistantly taught 9-12.
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Post by blb on May 20, 2006 6:31:29 GMT -6
coachjd has a good way to do it. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to work with freshmen (I know it's horrible, but every season I'm a year older, and they're still 14!), and am probably not organized enough to do it, particularly in-season when they are playing on different nights and have different pre-game days.
I also want to see my players on the both sides of the ball before game night and let my JV and freshman coaches have some autonomy. We have nine paid positions for the three teams, usually get a couple of volunteers, and have good coaches throughout the program, so the kids are well-prepared when they get to the varsity.
We did practice JV and varsity (10-12) together during two-a-days two years ago, and it worked out alright. I don't remember why we decided to do that or why we didn't do it this year.
Long story shorter, we coach both sides and each kid practices both ways, but we usually only have a couple play both ways (fortunately we have good numbers for depth and competition).
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Post by biggroff on May 21, 2006 12:23:07 GMT -6
We have 11 coaches (10 paid and one volunteer). We have a separate freshman coaching staff and one staff for 10-12 grade.
5 coaches on the freshman staff.
6 Coaches on the "Varsity". Of these 6 3 are on offense and 3 are on defense.
For varsity, The sohps practice opposite of the varisty. When the Sophs are on offense, the Varsity in on Defense and vise versa.
I am the defensive coordinator. This allows me to coach both the sohps and Varsity defenses. I get to know all the kids in the program and keeps consistency on both levels.
On game day my D-Back coach calls the defense on the soph level and the Qb coach calls the Offense on the soph level. Freshman play the next day so the freshman staff help on the sidelines during the Soph game.
This has worked great for us. The only drawback is that the head coach (who coaches the O-Line) never really sees the defense all week. He puts a tremendous amount of trust in me to get the job done. It really lets me be the head coach of the defense.
As a head coach, if you don't have a good coordinator you can trust on one side of the ball, this system really won't work well.
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Post by coachdawhip on May 21, 2006 15:38:28 GMT -6
Coach your at a good school. We are in GA and will have 6 coaches probably including HC 8 if we get lucky.
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Post by biggroff on May 21, 2006 15:54:25 GMT -6
coachdawhip,
The catch is that I coach at a catholic school so even though we have 10 coaches, each are paid from $1000-$3000 each. It is easy to afford 10 coahces when you don't pay them anything.
We have about 3 to 4 kids go both ways. We have only 50 on the varsity roster so everyone needs to know a position on both sides of the ball.
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Post by bulldog on May 23, 2006 0:02:53 GMT -6
It's really interesting to see how many staffs coach one side of the ball. I really like that model . . . and has given us something to think about.
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Post by pegleg on May 26, 2006 15:12:48 GMT -6
we have 8 coaches 4 off, 4 def. plus the hc. 4a texas 1200 kids in school.
we have a totally split practice and will always try not to have guys go both ways, but if your a stud you might get to play both ways. in that case the staffs work together to decide when its necessary for that kid to practice with which group. those few kids that go both ways split thier practice time between o and d, everyone else only practices one way.
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Post by phantom on May 27, 2006 11:55:32 GMT -6
We coach both sides. I have a really unusual combination- I coach DBs and OL. I love it. I get to work with almost everybody on the team. Sure never gets boring.
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