What are spring and Fall camp for?

[Jaybird]

First of all let me start with the fact that I am by no means a coach nor any kind of guru on football scheme or otherwise. But.....

I hear of the personnel changes being talked about with Santos and Anderson practicing with the 1st team yesterday and I like that fact that they are trying different things as the UCLA game did not go at all the way we want things to go moving forward. The question I have is all off season (spring and fall camp) our defense went against a quick paced spread offense, ours, and yet the speed issue us just now coming up? I would have thought that some of those issues would have come up prior to the 2nd game. I get that UCLA presents challenges that we may not see again this year but you really have to put yourself in the best position to win. The non-conference is not preseason, Nebraska needs to be winning games like this.

What are your thoughts?

 

[tyvodka23]

Monday- install offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Tuesday- review offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Wednesday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with JV guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Gas them out, see who is still doing things Right!

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review film of practice- set dept chart based on performance during scrimmage-

Thursday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with #2 guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

review offensive/ defensive game plan

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review tape of practice, adjust dept chart accordingly!

Friday

-Review offensive/ defensive game plan with guys left standing, those who have earned their spot on the depth chart by performing correctly during practice while being gassed. Those are the guys who will come through in a close game in the 4th quarter, the ones dead tired and still giving it their all and doing things right. No spot is safe week to week, ever!

PS. Not impressed with Mike Morrow, he was 3 for 3 against Southern Miss, but seems to run too upright and gets stood up easily, even on those runs and especially at UCLA. Size only does so much if you don't keep your pads low and feet moving... Definitely not the juggernaut he was billed to be.

 

[Jaybird]

I agree we need to have more play makers on the field regardless of how long they have been in the program. I agree that we need more people on the field with that killer mentality where there is less thinking and more find ball destroy ball attitude. I just don't understand how the lack of speed on the field is just now coming up as it is not like we encountered something we have never seen before. If for example we were practicing against a speed spread offense and we went up against a triple option or a Wisconsin style (typically, where they are bigger than you and move you out of the way) maybe there needs to be personnel changes to have different people on the field that game to stop the style of offense being defended but against UCLA their offense was not that much different from what they go against in practice.

 

[husker B-rent]

i agree that we arent the fastest team, but imo the scheme is what is lacking. There is too much decision making going on for the dline and linebackers. switch to an attacking blitz style defense and we improve 10 fold.

 

[The Dude]

i agree that we arent the fastest team, but imo the scheme is what is lacking. There is too much decision making going on for the dline and linebackers. switch to an attacking blitz style defense and we improve 10 fold.

Not if they still can't tackle.

 

[nhuskers5]

Monday- install offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Tuesday- review offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Wednesday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with JV guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Gas them out, see who is still doing things Right!

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review film of practice- set dept chart based on performance during scrimmage-

Thursday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with #2 guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

review offensive/ defensive game plan

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review tape of practice, adjust dept chart accordingly!

Friday

-Review offensive/ defensive game plan with guys left standing, those who have earned their spot on the depth chart by performing correctly during practice while being gassed. Those are the guys who will come through in a close game in the 4th quarter, the ones dead tired and still giving it their all and doing things right. No spot is safe week to week, ever!

PS. Not impressed with Mike Morrow, he was 3 for 3 against Southern Miss, but seems to run too upright and gets stood up easily, even on those runs and especially at UCLA. Size only does so much if you don't keep your pads low and feet moving... Definitely not the juggernaut he was billed to be.

Tackling rarely gets practiced in college, you have more important things to worry about. Problems tackling is mostly a recruiting deficiency.

I think the COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES know more about effective practice scheduling than any of us on a message board, so I'm going to go ahead and defer to them when it comes to this sort of thing...

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Monday- install offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Tuesday- review offensive/ defensive game plan/ practice tackling

Wednesday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with JV guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #2's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

Gas them out, see who is still doing things Right!

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review film of practice- set dept chart based on performance during scrimmage-

Thursday

- Run 10 20 yard sprints- followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's/ replace with #2 guys excelling)

- Run 10 more 20 yard sprints - followed by a 10 play #1's on #1's scrimmage, for both the offense and the defense--- evaluate who is still going hard, making the correct reads, sustaining blocks on offense/ flying to the ball and tackling correctly on defense (anyone sucking air/ slacking off/ not understanding the scheme,- go work with the JV's)

review offensive/ defensive game plan

Conclude by Practicing Tackling!

Review tape of practice, adjust dept chart accordingly!

Friday

-Review offensive/ defensive game plan with guys left standing, those who have earned their spot on the depth chart by performing correctly during practice while being gassed. Those are the guys who will come through in a close game in the 4th quarter, the ones dead tired and still giving it their all and doing things right. No spot is safe week to week, ever!

PS. Not impressed with Mike Morrow, he was 3 for 3 against Southern Miss, but seems to run too upright and gets stood up easily, even on those runs and especially at UCLA. Size only does so much if you don't keep your pads low and feet moving... Definitely not the juggernaut he was billed to be.

Good lord, haven't you posted this in several threads? I think you even started a seperate thread about this......................we get it!