Coaching shortage...

Coach,
Where are you located and would you be willing to possibly take a chance on a young coach with 4 years D1-AA playing experience, 2 years high school coaching experience and 1 year volunteer coaching for a women's professional football team? I live for the sport of football and am dying to get into more coaching. My email is griffmoose@aol.com. Please let me know some more information.
As for practice planning with only 2 coaches, I've got an idea. With this being spring ball you have coming up, you might want to get into some basic installation or review of responsiblities or for skill positions you can do ball drills. I'd split the practices into offensive days and defensive days. On offensive days, I'd go with one coach with the skill positions and one with the line. If you are doing instalation or review of repsonsibilities, the line would go over how to reach block, combo block, double team, slide block, and pass block while the skill guys go over basic footwork for plays and where to be, what to look for, going over holes that should be open on runs, things like that. You can even have the WR practice taking handoffs b/c you never know when someone will be pressed into emergency duty. It also goes the other way for the RBs running patterns. Plus, you may find you have a RB who can run good routes and it gives you another way to use a weapon. For ball drills and things like that, let the lineman do some one on ones while the skill positions do drills for footwork and catching and not fumbling. I would have my TES split time between the two areas. I think TEs have to be able to catch well and block well. Treat the team sessions like any other team session and have the coach who had the line pay attention to the line and the coach who had the skill guys pay attention to the skill guys.
As for defensive days, you can divide those up into pass and run days. On pass days, have the LBs with the DBs and the lineman on thier own. On run days, have the LBs with the line and the DBs on thier own. On run days have the line and the LBs go over hole responsibilities and persuit and how blitzes change responsibilities. You can also go over spill or contain techniques, wrong arming and things like that. Run a 7 on 7 run drill to make sure guys are going where they need to go. Plus linemen and LB will get a chance to play RB for a drill. Big guys love to get a chance to do that. While the big guys are doing that for run, the DBs can be doing their run responsibilities and transitioning from a backpedal into run support, how to get off blocks, etc. Fumble drills are a fun way to get away from the slow pace of some installation and review for both groups. On passing days with the line, go over getting off blocks, pass rushing landmarks for the DEs, even some one on ones, and if you have any zone dogs where the line are dropping into coverage, go into how to do that. The DBs and LBs on pass days get coverage installations and responsibilities. Know who is where, why they are there, how blitzes change things. Man and zone. You can run some 7 on 7 pass drills or half field coverage drills. If you want to spend an entire day on catching the ball or mini coverage drills there are tons and tons of ball drills to do that with. For team sessions for defense, there are a few more things you can do. Team persuit drills where everyone has to get to the ball is one. And then there is just the overall basic review and again, have the skill guy pay attention to the skill guys and the line guy pay attention to the line.
I know it's not perfect and I actually made this up on the fly, but it's an idea. I hope I've helped and you might be able to use this. And if you might be interested, my email is up there. Thank you.

Coach Cella,
I will have about 50-55 players on my roster and probably only about 25 will see the field. Right now, I am trying to work something out with our varsity staff to allow us to work individuals with them and do group and team stuff on our own. So far I haven't received a response. I am a perfectionist and believe that individual periods are a necessity. I really don't want to cut that part of practice out. Let me know if you have any ideas that could help me. Thanks
Coach Cal