Practice Efficiency

Mavric

Mavric

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Seems to be buzzing around leading up to and now following the opening of Fall Camp.

Seems like the biggest changes is a dramatic shortening of the pre-practice walk-through. Trying to keep the players mentally sharp through the season.

A few reports of the first practice being quicker-paced. Easy to say on Day 1 so we'll see.

 
Practice was almost exactly 90 minutes today. Sounds like they are trying to keep practices from 90-100 minutes this year.

 
Pelini said he did a lot of research while considering speeding up the pace of practices. After talking with different people about it, he ran it by strength coach James Dobson, then the trainers, to make sure the groundwork was in place to go at the speed he wanted.


“Then I sat down with the staff and shared with them what I thought. I wanted to hear their thoughts and their vision,” Pelini said. “We came to a conclusion. We think this could be very good for us.”

Postpractice assessment from Day 1 without pads: The tempo was just as the coach hoped it would be.

“I thought practice moved along extremely well. I thought the guys reacted to it very well. We’ll learn a lot from the first day,” Pelini said.
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Steven M. Sipple ‏@HuskerExtraSip 1h
Randy Gregory wearing a GPS device in practice. Means to build data to tailor practice "right way," Pelini says. #Huskers
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Apparently about half the team was wearing the tracking devices.
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My first thoughts, GPS device in practice was a joke (sarcasm post). Anyway, I didn't understand it ..... what's the purpose "tailor practice"
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I've always said, and I know that kids need to be locked in, but when you go beyond the 2 hour mark...you can start to lose your players mentally at practice. I don't know how much this is true in college but I definitely know it's true in high school, from experience as a player and as a coach.

 
Practice was about 70 minutes long tonight. I guess they aren't kidding about cutting back quantity and going for quality.

 
Don't remember which thread was talking about this earlier in the week but the Huskers split into two groups for part of practice today with the 1s and 2s alternating on one field and the 3s and 4s alternating on the other field. A TON of good reps for the younger players. Hope that continues.

 
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Don't remember which thread was talking about this earlier in the week but the Huskers split into two groups for part of practice today with the 1s and 2s alternating on one field and the 3s and 4s alternating on the other field. A TON of good reps for the younger players. Hope that continues.
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Apparently the young players will be getting even more reps now.

 
The hell with practice efficiency! Let's go back to long inefficient practices that didn't hurt 2 starters in the first week! Lol

 
The hell with practice efficiency! Let's go back to long inefficient practices that didn't lead to a safety failing a drug test

 
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