Deliver a Game Plan to College Football Players

Video Transcript

"Here we are on Tuesday, after a nice big cup of coffee, you're in the staff meeting. Usually, around 7:00 the head coach will meet with you as a staff. Once that's done, you'll break off into your unit meetings, offensively and defensively. Once you get into these meetings, it will go more from a game plan meeting to let's plan practice. Practice will consist of about 2 1/2 hours. It will be in full pads and the kids will really get after it a bit on Tuesday. Before practice you'll break off into what we call position meetings. Quarterbacks, wide outs, however you want to break it down. You'll meet with your position coach. If you're the quarterback coach, obviously, you'll meet with the quarterbacks. That will take about 45 minutes to an hour before practice. During that time on Tuesday you'll give the kids the game plan. Explain what the plan of attack is going to be for Saturday or Sunday and explain how we're going to get to it. Once you've explained that you'll stop and watch a film of your upcoming opponent so the kids get to see it, not just hear it. They'll be able to see that this is what they do on certain things. So, now when you see that in a game on Saturday it'll click, "This is what I do, I saw it on film study," and we go from there. Once practice is done the kids will come in and eat at what's called the training table where the kids and coaches will eat. The kids will break off and the coaches will go back and usually watch the practice. Correcting mistakes take plays out, add plays on Tuesday. Once that's done, usually, the coaches are now responsible to make recruiting calls, which is a huge part of the game, which I'll talk about later in the segment. But, they'll probably spend half an hour to an hour making their calls and then it's on to the next day."