Approach To Practice Sessions

Vincent Tauanuu

Game planning for starts in the spring when I am able to breakdown and label film in the terminology we use to coach our kids. Each week is different and as each team poses a different threat for us to scheme each week. For us our planning starts the very night after the game. We will watch our game film and grade it out and closeout the schedule for the previous weeks game. We have specific assignments for each coach and what they are to watch and what they are looking for. Each position coach is responsible for their position group to gather information on tendencies, strengths, weaknesses, formations, alignments, assignments, best player and weakest plater. When we gather all this information on our opponents then each coordinator can develop a scouting report for each player on their perspective sides of offense and defense. We start right after our game and closeout the week with grades on alignment and assignment. Saturday is spent watching the opponent most recent 2games and if we can get other game film on them we vreak it all down to put our plan together on how we will attack it offensively and defend them defensively. For instance defensively we know what fronts we will run, what stunts and blitzes will give the most pressure and what coverages we can run versus formations. We also install what other fronts we can slide into if they come out in a formation or decide to go to a power game. Unday we collaborate one last time to go over situational formations, plays, injury adjustments, back ups for starters and special needs we may have for practices and how much time for each period. Mondays we are helmets and practice gear, we are mostly walk and talk and working on fundamentals and conditioning with a purpose. Lots of reps and thinking time during this practice. On Tuesday we get after it with a full padded practice to go live against our scout teams to get as many reps as possible going full speed. We are able to really coach our kids during this through repeating a play if we did not like the end result. Wednesday we are just shells keeping everything up and perfecting the plays with limited contact as we are trying to let our kids have rest & recovery time. Thursday we are just workout gear and cleats doing walk through and going through all special teams, situational o air, we also go versus scouts and finish up with team activity. By Wednesday we will have decided if we will run or take away certain plays, never addig to the plan. We can always make minor adjustments during the game if we need to shake things up a little bit.