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NotoriousZSB's picture NotoriousZSB | 10 years 4 months # | Quick observations from VT Snapchat of Morning Workouts

This is all minutia to be honest.

"Practices" tend to involve actual technique coaching, as well as structured activites that work towards implementing football plays. This is stuff like catching balls, adding formations, drilling plays, layering fundamental football technique under the coaches instruction. You only get 15 of these in the spring, something like 18 or 20 during the fall camp and additional 12 if you make a bowl game. They have to be declared as such.

Workout/Offseason conditioning stuff is not really directly tied to teaching guys "football" things. So getting guys conditioning up etc is not really a practice since they aren't being taught "football skills" or practicing "football plays". The coaches are there to instill their attitude and set expectations but right now they're very limited in what they can "teach about football". There is no limit on when or how many of these you can have, only a restriction on time. So you have X amount of hours each week for these sorts of activities and you can split that up however they want.

To add to this, thats why the new S&C is so important to the culture of the team. He gets to spend way more time with the kids than the "football" coaches do during the offseason when that "teaching football" component of coaching is so heavily restricted.

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