GCHS spring practice recap and look to 2007

The dust has now settled on our 2007 spring practice session. As I said before the focus was mainly on skill development with the players that we had at practice. Many of the questions that we have heading into next season didn’t come much closer to being answered because of some key players participation in [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #10

Forget about the now vacant UK head basketball job for a moment. It’s spring football time in KY!!!! Come on, didn’t you see all of those empty seats at the Ohio St/Tennessee Regional Semifinal last night. That’s right, all of those fans are camping out for tickets to their spring football games.
There has been [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #9

Yesterday was our final day of position specific drills. We worked on offensive skills before making a competitive game out of our Oklahoma drill.
The offensive linemen and TE’s worked takeoffs, board drills, finish drills, and combo + zone drills. We have worked through some of our problems in technique and definitely looked better yesterday than [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #8

We were able to avoid enough nasty weather on Monday to get in a solid hour of tackling. Just before we went out of the field is when the rain began. It wasn’t coming down too hard, though. So, we were able to get something done and will hope for better weather for our last [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #7

The weather turned out to be even nastier than expected yesterday causing some changes to our practice design. We would not have been able to get much basic level teaching and learning done outside, so I chose to take our practice indoors.
We went inside and shared the gym with the pitchers and catchers that [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #6

Individual defensive drills were once again the focus of practice yesterday. It was definitely not our best practice of the spring, thus far. However, a shot at redemption will come on Thursday.
The group that looked the best yesterday was our defensive linemen. They continued to work on their takeoffs and push-pull technique. They also worked [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #5

It was one of those days yesterday. For various reasons we had only 13 players at practice yesterday. I decided to let them have a little fun and play some 6 on 6 football. We cut down the boundaries of the field and essentially played arena football without the arena. It was a good opportunity [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #4

We continued to work many of the same skills during our 2nd day of offensive position drills. The objective we are after is the mastery of the basic technique that will allow us to succeed in running our base plays against various looks.
The offensive linemen, once again, began by working on stance and takeoff mechanics. [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #3

Our first day of defensive position drills was very productive. I felt that we had many players that improved throughout the course of practice and improved their tackling from Monday.
Defensive Backs coach Kevin Crutchfield worked the following with his group:
-stance and read step mechanics
-basic movement drills
-technique for defeating stalk blocks
-run support drills and angles
-basic run [...]

GCHS Spring Practice Journal — Entry #2

The focus of Tuesday’s practice was blocking, the key fundamental on the offensive side of the ball. We split up our team into two groups yesterday. One group had the OL and TE’s, the other had all of the skill players.
We started the offensive linemen and TE’s out with stance and takeoff mechanics. We emphasized [...]