Okay, so I play high school football. I go to a small Division 6 school in Ohio, and it is not very succesful. This year we had a pretty decent season, as we went 5-5. Keep in mind that this is a team who usually goes 2-8 or 3-7, so going 5-5 is a pretty good accomplishment for us. But the thing is, I felt we had a playoff caliber team, and blew a few games. I also feel that we never were as good as our full potential. I felt a few things were the problem here.
First, I do not think that we conditioned enough. Our conditioning consisted of 5 days, 1 week, of full on conditioning, then every Monday we watched game film from the previous week and then ran some. This isn't my idea of good conditioning. There was in no way enough running and getting in shape involved in our conditioning.
Secondly, I don't feel that we did enough working on the team overall. If you ever have watched the movie Remember The Titans (based on a true story), the Titans Coach, Coach Boone, ran that team like a dictator, and put the boys from T.C. Williams through a camp that was like hell. Now this may have been just a movie, and the events may have been exagerated some, but I'm sure that in actuality the camp was extremely tough, maybe even as tough as it was in the movie, and it spawned a succesful team. They worked hard, went through hell and high water, and came out on top, as champions. I think this kind of work is what it takes to be a great football team.
I also think that we were no where near strong enough to compete with some teams. We lifted for about a month or two in the off season, but it wasn't mandatory, and many players didn't know, so it did not end up doing much for many. At the beginning of the season, we lifted three days a week through a two or three week period, before stopping. I think myself that we needed to continue our weightlifting through the season, but it didn't happen.
A football team in high school, to be succesful, in my opinion, needs to be conditioned, strong, and have to work hard, long, and intenseley at the sport, and I don't think we met any of those three criteria. So what, in your opinions, makes a succesful and good high school football team?
First, I do not think that we conditioned enough. Our conditioning consisted of 5 days, 1 week, of full on conditioning, then every Monday we watched game film from the previous week and then ran some. This isn't my idea of good conditioning. There was in no way enough running and getting in shape involved in our conditioning.
Secondly, I don't feel that we did enough working on the team overall. If you ever have watched the movie Remember The Titans (based on a true story), the Titans Coach, Coach Boone, ran that team like a dictator, and put the boys from T.C. Williams through a camp that was like hell. Now this may have been just a movie, and the events may have been exagerated some, but I'm sure that in actuality the camp was extremely tough, maybe even as tough as it was in the movie, and it spawned a succesful team. They worked hard, went through hell and high water, and came out on top, as champions. I think this kind of work is what it takes to be a great football team.
I also think that we were no where near strong enough to compete with some teams. We lifted for about a month or two in the off season, but it wasn't mandatory, and many players didn't know, so it did not end up doing much for many. At the beginning of the season, we lifted three days a week through a two or three week period, before stopping. I think myself that we needed to continue our weightlifting through the season, but it didn't happen.
A football team in high school, to be succesful, in my opinion, needs to be conditioned, strong, and have to work hard, long, and intenseley at the sport, and I don't think we met any of those three criteria. So what, in your opinions, makes a succesful and good high school football team?
