Smaug's first practice of the new school year is tomorrow night, 7-9. We have no idea how many rookies to expect, because the turnout to the informational meeting was pretty low, but we have a ton of email addresses on our list. Last year it was something like 70 rookies, and I'm hoping that we can at least equal that.
Since most of our players will have never played before, we're going to start off with 15 minutes of vets showing rookies how to throw. Then we're going to break into 4 groups and teach them:
1. How to mark
2. How to cut in
3. How to cut deep
4. Defensive positioning
After rotating through these drills, we'll take as much field space as we can and play some small scrimmages, maybe 4 on 4, for the remaining 45-60 minutes.
The idea is that we'll start to give the players the individual skills they need before they can learn team-wide strategies. The drills should give us a chance to see who are the more athletic rookies that we should take a look at for the A-team, too.
We don't want to throw too much at them too quickly, but we want to show them that we're a serious team and that we're going to work hard this year.
Good luck with recruiting this year Dot. I could only wish that we could get 70 people out. I'm interested to see how your first few practices work out. I feel like Irvine always had a problem with what we should do for the first few practices, and I think that we lost possible recruits because of it.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.