Platooning coaches

Coach,

We are very simular to what has been described. We have 7 coaches 9-12 and we break up our squad by 9th and 10th grade and 11th and 12th grade (a few 10th grade may be with the older kids)

We will start practice with the older kids on offense, so the head coach coaches QB the 9th grade OC coaches the WR, the JV OC coaches the RB, and the Varsity OC coaches the OL.

The younger kids will be on Defense. (Varsity DC coaches DB's, JV DC coaches DL, and the 9th grade DC coaches LBers.

When we swith groups the head coach stays with the varisty and coaches inside Lbers and the 9th grade DC coaches OLB/SS

And on offense with the younger kids the JV OC coaches the QB and RB otherwise it all stays the same.

Our kids really liked it and I know I did as the varsity OC it allowed me to focus all my attention to the offense in our entire program.

JD

I remember hearing a lecture on this by trace dehenke. he coached at oceanside calif under a bigtime head coach whoes name i cannot remember.

I do not think you can practice both offense and defense in the same practice IMO.

our practice week is as follows

saturday morning defensive practice. light 2hrs of technique work and what I call defensive recoginition. we do tacking drills into a pit.
monday afternoon 3.5hr offensive practice special teams for 60 min
tuesday afternoon 3.5 hr defensive practice " " "
wednesday afternoon 3.5hr offensive practice. " " "
thurdays evening we have the kids go home and eat. then the comeback at 5:30 and we start pregame 7pm under the lights 60 to 90min walk through
friday afternoon team meal and then get ready for game.

extra stuff monday morning we handout a scout report
thursday morning we have a exam on the material presented during the week. we look over the exams and see what we need to shoreup on thursday evenings practice.

we watch very little film. players get better by doing more reps not watching films IMO