one platoon practice plans

Coach, this is our weekly plan for a Friday game.

Monday- Shorts and shoulder pads. Weightlifting- Day 1 (BFS).
Special teams, offensive and defensive walkthrough.

Tuesday- Full pads. Offensive practice. 70 min. individual/70 min. team.

Wednesday- Full pads. Defensive practice. 70 min. individual/70 min. team.

Thursday- Shorts and shoulder pads. Weightlifting- Day 2 (BFS). Pre-game "Play the Script" (We follow Coach Campbell's play the script).

Friday- GAMEDAY

Saturday- Gym clothes. Weightlifting- Day 3 (BFS). Lift and go home.

We do not believe in watching films with the kids. Now, I will start a thread asking how coaches watch films with the kids. Thanks Coach and I hope this helps.

Lou Cella

Coach, I coach at a very small catholic school in northeastern Pennsylvania (25-30 guys on roster). We follow the routine that I listed above. Here's a great suggestion I got from a very successful coach in Massachusetts named Andy Levin. When running the 1st team offense versus the scout team defense, DO NOT HUDDLE UP. Announce the play to the team before the play is run. This gives the scout team the chance to play more aggressively at the point of attack, and gives your 1st team a much better look at practice. I'll tell you, sometimes it's too good of a look, but it makes your 1st team work that much harder to execute the play. That's a suggestion I got from Coach Levin that has helped our program tremendously. Even when running the option, it is so interesting to see how the scout team plays it. So Coach, don't cut back on scrimmages. Use this method. I hope this helps and good luck with your season.

Lou Cella

We don't allow our scout team to align anywhere different than the call. If they do, we would take them out. We WANT our scout team to play the play. They know where the play is going. This makes it more of a challenge for the offense. We NEED a challenge at our practices. Anybody can dominate a scout team. We make it challenging. Our biggest problem is that sometimes defenders cheat their alignment, but we make it abundantly clear in the pre-season that they are not to do that. I hope this helps.

Lou Cella

Coaches, just make sure that the team atmosphere is intense and go over all possible game situations. Go over down and distance, two-minute offense/defense, red zone, goal-line offense/defense. We're in this profession to win games and we need to focus on fundamentals and then game situations above all else. We need to be realistic. I hope this helps.

Lou Cella

Increase. Football is a violent sport and I will live and die by the philosophy that, "At the high school level, the most physical team wins." Hit in practice. If you can't field a team with that philosophy, go somewhere where you can.

Lou Cella

Coach Cella,

A lot of people say you need to run the ride and decide option drill every day in a triple option offense. With your practice plan (which I like), how would you reccommend getting the ride and decide drill done every day?

I am not familiar with the "Play the Script", can someone email this to me?

batlas@wilson.wnyric.org

Coach,
This is our practice plan, it works well for us and we believe in having the players run both offense and defense everyday to keep the reinforcement and repetition.
Monday, Is our J.V. games, with the players we have left for Practice we run through Offensive plays, with a remaining players holding bags or just aligned where the defense plays. We condition hard on Monday and then watch film.

Tuesday - Wednesday Full Pads
Stretch and warm up 20 min
special team period 10-15 min
Individual period 15 min Longer early in the season, shorter as the year goes
Individual perrod 15 min We switch up off and def every other day, or by what time
volunteer assistant outside the school can make it to prac.
Team period 20-30 min
Team Period 20-30 min

Condition/lift
practice is two hours

During team periods our scout teams may be our next best players if we want to be very intense, or we bring in some younger kids. We try and run two offensive groups against one scout team. We vary from day to day. Our goal is always to physical and execute technique, we want to be perfect in execution.

Our kids love Defense so that period gets a little longer and is very physical we try and make sure younger kids are not in a position to get hurt by the upper classmen. Kids respond well and take pride in what we do.

Thursday Helmets and shoulder pads
Run through special teams and entire offense and walk through defense and stunts vs oppoents base plays.
No contact day

Saturday Conditioning and film watching break up the varisty and J. v. kids.
coaches meet prior to players coming in to review film and plan for the week

Sunday Lords day and Family time

Players often come over eat with my family and watch more film.



Coach O