Length of Practice segments.

I have learned from repeated state championship coaches that if your practices go past 2 hours and 15 minutes you accomplish NOTHING. I was always a believer that you cannot get all you want accomplished in that period of time, but if you coach fast, demand hustle from your players, and high structure from your assistants and yourself it can be done. This only helps the players, and in a society of young people that are completely overstimulated, we all need to coach faster and more organized to keep them on the move. Down time in a practice is a death trap for us all.

We use 5 minute periods and rarely stay on one area for more than 20 minutes. Past 2 hours 15 minutes, we would run out of things to do.

However, once game prep comes around, you never seem to have enough time.