Practics Issues

COACH,

HOW MANY PLAYERS DOES THE TREE TEAMS TOGETHER PUT ON YOUR FIELD? OBVIOUSLY YOUR GOING TO HAVE THEM ALL RUN THE SAME THING. WITH ONLY 6 COACHES, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR HANDS FULL
BUT ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND GO TO WORK UNLESS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAYERS IS OVERWHELMING.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

We used to do this with our "two-a-day" time...but don't know if it would work with your time crunch. We would cut up our individual time (worked some group as well) into two pieces--bring in skill position players for one piece and linemen for the other. Could split it however you like, for example maybe we would have QB, WR, TE report for pass-focused individuals and then have the RB's report with linemen so that they could work blitz recognition, etc. At any rate, we were able to break the team up into smaller pieces so that we could work with the kids since many of our coaches were volunteer and had strange schedules. We then would get the whole team together and work special teams, another group session and a team session when all the coaches were there. It worked very well, but we did this over the course of 4 hours rather than 1.5. Don't know if this helps at all, but if you get creative, you can get it done. 30 kids per coach, though. Wow. You might have to just run the thing like a team camp. One more thing, even if your assistant coaches are not very knowledgeable, they can help you a ton. I coached a JV team where my defensive coordinator was a good guy, and someone I could count on, but couldn't coach a team on his own if his life depended on it. But, he was willing to learn, willing to ask questions, and most of all dependable and professional. He learned as much as the kids did, and our defense actually did very well that year. So if you can find some guys like that who will work thier tail off and you can help them learn your system and how to run it, they can help you out a ton!

I screwed up it is 120 players. Of the 6 coaches not all novice. 3 of them are knowledgeable, the other 3 are good teachers, just limited in their football knowledge.

That sound like a tough situation. With the younger guys like you have, I guess it is more about having fun and keeping the boys interested in football while learning how to play. You might consider having each boy play only offense or defense, not both. That way everyone would be first or second string offense or defense. Now you can run your individual drills with your 6 coaches:

-DL
-LB
-DB
-OL & TE
-RB
-QBs & WRs

For group time you could split up the 7th grade team, bigger/better guys with the 8th graders and smaller/weaker guys with the under 110 lbs, again using the six coaches:

-8th grade and big 7th grade OL/DL
-under 110 and small 7th grade OL/DL
-8th grade and big 7th grade RB/LB
-under 110 and small 7th grade RB/LB
-8th grade and big 7th grade QB/DB/WR
-under 110 and small 7th grade QB/DB/WR

Then for team time, obviously, each team would go with their own two coaches.

Hopefully, that would keep everyone busy and involved. Only a suggestion, of course.