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Post by Coach.A on Aug 19, 2014 22:50:02 GMT -6
Do any of you use the same practice template each week (e.g. Every Monday = warm up, position work, skelly & inside run, ..... Every Tuesday = warm up, tackling circuit, competitive drills, team, ....). Or do you completely change each week?
Please tell me why your team chose to schedule practices this way. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
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Post by carookie on Aug 19, 2014 22:59:50 GMT -6
I always have, I've never known why I should change.
There is a certain amount of time I get for practice, and I want a given pct. of it for indy time, a given for team, for spec teams, etc. There has never been a reason to change, change for the sake of change never made sense to me.
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Post by fantom on Aug 19, 2014 23:39:02 GMT -6
Do any of you use the same practice template each week (e.g. Every Monday = warm up, position work, skelly & inside run, ..... Every Tuesday = warm up, tackling circuit, competitive drills, team, ....). Or do you completely change each week? Please tell me why your team chose to schedule practices this way. What are the advantages and disadvantages? We do. I don't know why you'd change. There are certain things that have to be done so we do them. Players (and coaches) are creatures of habit. They like to know what's going to happen when they get to practice.
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Post by coachguy83 on Aug 19, 2014 23:47:39 GMT -6
I would say that our schedule is 90-95% the same each week. We might add or subtract a period if we feel we need to work on something specific for that opponent, but that's the only change.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 20, 2014 5:30:30 GMT -6
Our practices are pretty much the same format. Other than lessening conditioning as we go through the season, I can't think of anything we really change.
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 20, 2014 7:52:41 GMT -6
Roughly yes
Some minor tweaks here and there
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Post by mountainman on Aug 20, 2014 11:41:36 GMT -6
We are the basically the same from camp to playoffs.
Monday-offensive emphasis-20-30 min defense at the end to line up fronts to sets we will see that week. Special teams are offensive emphasis Kick Return and Punt.
Tuesday-defense emphasis-20-30 min team O only at the end. Special teams kick off/punt return.
Wednesday-Defense first/offense second team only. We also work on 2 min drill both sides. PAT/Field goal. We will kick field goals after every team score.
Thursday-walk through.
Our HC is the OC and sets up Monday's schedule, I am the DC and set up Tuesday's schedule. Wednesday and Thursday never vary. Indy time on Mon and Tues vary a little as I will often drop notes (as will the HC) on what I want emphasized that week.
I feel that when all of the coaches and players know what the schedule is, we are more efficient and have much better practices.
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Post by agap on Aug 20, 2014 12:59:45 GMT -6
We keep it the same. Why make major changes?
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Post by wingtol on Aug 20, 2014 19:29:35 GMT -6
We moved to a new school this year. HC was handing out practice schedules the other day. The guy who is a hold over from the last staff said "Coach this has your old teams name next to our helmet on the paper and the date says aug 18 2011!"
So yeah we don't change our practice routine very much at all.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 20:23:30 GMT -6
The more successful teams I've been a part of were consistent in their scheduling. They may have tweaked things an extended a period here or there or have added something in occasionally, but otherwise there was no change. Why should there be? You're just making more work for yourself when you have to reinvent the wheel every day.
The worst team I ever coached on was a different practice schedule everyday. I'd show up and never know how much individual time I was going to get until I got there and sometimes the HC would come up with an excuse to just decide 5 min. before we started to turn the whole practice into a stretching, conditioning, and then a 2 hour walkthrough with no drills at all being ran. We were horrendously bad in every way.
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Post by robinhood on Aug 25, 2014 12:35:10 GMT -6
Plan your work; work your plan. The things that need to get covered, get covered. If you start changing the practice routine, something will slip through the cracks, and it will come back to bite you in the ascot.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2014 8:15:14 GMT -6
Same everyday.....
20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning
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Post by blb on Aug 26, 2014 8:18:21 GMT -6
Same everyday..... 20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning
You have no Specialty, Individual, Group, or Kicking Game periods - ever?
How does anything get taught, including fundamentals?
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2014 8:27:14 GMT -6
Same everyday..... 20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning
You have no Specialty, Individual, Group, or Kicking Game periods - ever?
How does anything get taught, including fundamentals?
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Post by blb on Aug 26, 2014 8:36:48 GMT -6
Wasn't being sarcastic at all, legit question.
Your post lists only stretching, Team, and conditioning - "everyday."
No need to be insulting.
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Post by fantom on Aug 26, 2014 9:24:02 GMT -6
Wasn't being sarcastic at all, legit question. Your post lists only stretching, Team, and conditioning - "everyday." No need to be insulting. I don't think he was talking about you. I think that he's saying that he was being sarcastic. I speak fluent Sarcasm, which I learned by the Immersion Method growing up in northeast PA. I can say that sarcasm doesn't always work here. No matter how badly you overexaggerate something, no matter how ridiculous you make something sound, we've read something worse here.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2014 11:18:53 GMT -6
Wasn't being sarcastic at all, legit question. Your post lists only stretching, Team, and conditioning - "everyday." No need to be insulting.
fantom got it.
There was never an insult intend coach.....always respect your posts and opinions.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 19:20:06 GMT -6
Same everyday..... 20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning That is eerily similar to the practice plan at my last stop and I'm not being sarcastic. Cut the conditioning by 20 minutes, cut 30 min. from offensive team, and then add 10-15 minute individual periods for both sides and that's exactly it. Yeah, we were godawful, but that was clearly all the players fault for being unathletic and "missing football IQ"... For newbies, that is an example of what NOT to do. Where I'm at now... Mon. 30 stretching and conditioning, 10 team o walkthrough, 10 team d walkthrough, 10 ST, 20 film, 40 lifting Tues. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 45 O Indy, 30 Team O, 2X5 min water breaks Wed. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 30 D Indy, 20 Team D, 40 lifting, 2X5 min water breaks Thurs. 20 min. stretching, 40 min. ST, 30 min "game simulation" on air walkthrough Fri: Game No Sat. or Sun. work at all. I wonder if we could be a little more efficient (doing football specific stuff rather than conditioning sprints) and wish we could do some offense on defensive days and vice versa, but I like having the long uninterrupted indy time for the linemen. We seem to be more focused than when kids switch back and forth on the same day and sometimes get confused which side of the ball we're working.
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Post by dubber on Aug 27, 2014 17:43:15 GMT -6
Same everyday..... 20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning That is eerily similar to the practice plan at my last stop and I'm not being sarcastic. Cut the conditioning by 20 minutes, cut 30 min. from offensive team, and then add 10-15 minute individual periods for both sides and that's exactly it. Yeah, we were godawful, but that was clearly all the players fault for being unathletic and "missing football IQ"... For newbies, that is an example of what NOT to do. Where I'm at now... Mon. 30 stretching and conditioning, 10 team o walkthrough, 10 team d walkthrough, 10 ST, 20 film, 40 lifting Tues. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 45 O Indy, 30 Team O, 2X5 min water breaks Wed. 30 stretching and conditioning, 15 ST, 30 D Indy, 20 Team D, 40 lifting, 2X5 min water breaks Thurs. 20 min. stretching, 40 min. ST, 30 min "game simulation" on air walkthrough Fri: Game No Sat. or Sun. work at all. I wonder if we could be a little more efficient (doing football specific stuff rather than conditioning sprints) and wish we could do some offense on defensive days and vice versa, but I like having the long uninterrupted indy time for the linemen. We seem to be more focused than when kids switch back and forth on the same day and sometimes get confused which side of the ball we're working. We try to keep our conditioning football specific.
Pursuit drill for defense and what we call "insanity" for offense, which is just as many plays in a 10 minutes period as we can get.
On that insanity piece, we tally the plays and record it from week to week. Keeps the kids pushing.
When we first started this, we were at 16 plays. Last week we set the bar at 29.
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Post by coachtua on Dec 23, 2014 4:51:21 GMT -6
We moved to a new school this year. HC was handing out practice schedules the other day. The guy who is a hold over from the last staff said "Coach this has your old teams name next to our helmet on the paper and the date says aug 18 2011!" So yeah we don't change our practice routine very much at all. OOPS...HAHAHA...
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Post by carookie on Dec 23, 2014 10:47:11 GMT -6
Same everyday..... 20 minutes of stretching lines 10 minutes of defensive team 80 minutes of offensive team 30 minutes of conditioning Here is the sad thing, replace the 30 minutes of conditioning with "30 minutes of coach preaching to the players about things he's done in the past" and you would have at least 1/3 of our practices this year. THAT IS NOT A JOKE OR EXAGGERATION. Crazy thing is we won league, and a playoff game. Just goes to show you how much having good talent can overcome bad coaching; and why 90% of the staff is ready to quit.
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Post by kcbazooka on Dec 23, 2014 16:49:11 GMT -6
What would gagliardi's practice schedule look like?
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Post by coachorr on Dec 27, 2014 11:15:18 GMT -6
This post just escalated into a nightmare.
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Post by coachjm on Dec 27, 2014 11:25:47 GMT -6
One change we make is starting in week 3 we cut one period a week each day until the end of the season if we are a playoff team we do sometimes add a period or two back on as the opponents we are generally not as familiar with. Additionally, we have less contact days each week as we will taper our Wednesday to 1/2 pads, then eventually Monday we will go just helmets and eventually we will go Wednesday just helmets. We try to keep Tuesday a full padded practice all year but by the end of the year that is it. We have felt our kids are fresher and more prepared for practice and games by doing this. Additionally, we only condition the first week of the season after that we feel it generally does more harm then good, we do have very uptempo practices with very little down time that we feel conditions our players.
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Post by s73 on Dec 27, 2014 11:50:22 GMT -6
In general yes. Tweaks occur after evaluating game film. If we need more time in one area over the other then changes can be made.
But in general, it's my conclusion the consistency on the practice field more often than not leads to consistency on the game field.
JMO.
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Post by jg78 on Dec 27, 2014 12:05:09 GMT -6
I would say that our schedule is 90-95% the same each week. We might add or subtract a period if we feel we need to work on something specific for that opponent, but that's the only change. This. To me, the only variable is if an upcoming opponent does something that might require a little more preparation than usual in a certain area. For example, if a team lines up in the swinging gate after every TD and either shifts or goes for two, that might require you to spend a few more minutes on your ST that week to prepare for it. Things like that might change the minutes up here and there, but the general practice appraoch should remain the same every week.
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Post by spos21ram on Dec 27, 2014 13:32:39 GMT -6
Ours pretty much stays the same every week. Some minor tweaks here and there.
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