MUS Football

Monday Practice Plans

A reminder that practice on Monday (9th,JV and Varsity) will be from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. This should give most everyone a chance to get back in town. Our game this week with SBA will determine who is in 1st place in the region so we need a good week of preparation. Remember to let us know if you will miss on Monday.

Game Week Routine

WIth the start of school and our first game we will settle into our afternoon practice routine. Our practice schedule is posted on the school calendar and is connected to this blog. The JV always follows the varsity schedule unless noted.

Jamboree for 9th and JV is on Monday at CBHS. We play CBHS at 8:00 with 9th grade and 8:30 with JV.

Parent Film Session

Gary Meloni has offered to man the computer for the parent's film sessions on Sunday afternoon's. We will try starting this week at 4:30. It usually takes about an hour to go through the video. There will be a couple of Sundays we take off due to holidays etc.

General Practice Schedule starting next week for 10-12 grades

Here are the general guidelines we follow once school begins and we are playing games.

Mondays - Usually a JV game and boys playing will not practice. Other boys practice from 3:45 to 5:00
Tuesdays - VERY IMPORTANT PRACTICE - 3:45 to 6:00
Wednesday - VERY IMPORTANT PRACTICE - 3:30 to 6:00
Thursday - Walk Through - 3:45 to 4:30
Friday - Game Night - In town games boys should be here by 5:30
Saturday - Free
Sunday - Weights 2:30 to 3:30, Film Review 3:30 to 4:30

We will not meet the Sunday of Labor Day week but will practice that Monday from 5:00 to 7:30

We will not practice from Oct. 6th to the 11th during Fall Break

No OTA tomorrow.

We are going to give the boys a long weekend this week and cancel our workout tomorrow morning. We look for all of the 10th -12th graders to arrive at 7:30am on Monday for our first practice in pads this season. Please check the blog on Sunday after 3:00pm for any heat index issues we may have for Monday. Right now it looks fine.

9th graders are to be here ready to start practice at 5:00pm. The first day I would advise being here at 4:30 so we can make sure everything is ready to start on time.

Some of us head off to Hoover tomorrow for a 7on7 camp. This is a very competitive event with some outstanding teams from around the country.

First Week Practice Schedule

I am attaching a link to our first week practice schedule. This is an all day camp for the boys grade 10-12. The 9th graders only report for the afternoon practice. We expect the Varsity boys to stay at school all day so please refrain from scheduling midday appointments. Our goal is that this week is 100% football. If we have any conflicts, the boys should contact me and their position coach before the conflict occurs.

1st Week Schedule

 

New Heat Index Rule and Practice Schedules

As you may have read, the TSSAA has instituted a new policy that prohibits teams from practicing or competing in games when the heat index (HI) is over 104 degrees. Coach Ferebee has done some historical research and we are confident that during August we will have several days when this policy will cause us to adjust our normal afternoon practice times. His research also revealed that on days when the HI went over the limit, that it was 7:00pm before it was safe to begin. We realize that this uncertainty each day can create havoc for family schedules, not only for our players and their families, but for our coaches and their families as well.

With that in mind we will adopt the following procedure: If the forecast for the next day suggest that we will have a HI issue we will automatically go to the HI practice time which will be from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Once set we will not go back and change, even if it fails to reach the forecasted HI. This plan will allow all of us to begin the day with a plan that we can live with and that will avoid midday adjustments.

Kingsbury Preview

Just how good is Gabriel Hunter? Well as a 9th grader he rushed for 204 yards against us and last year put up 135 as a junior. That alone is enough to put us on alert but add to that returning QB Randy Powell who rushed for 120 yards last year and threw for another 104 and sirens start sounding. Both of these guys are electrifying athletes who are already committed to major college programs with Hunter at Ole Miss and Powell to Memphis.

Our coaches and players certainly understand the quality of this team and also that only our best effort and execution will produce a victory. After a really great practice yesterday our team has moved on from the exciting finish last week to the task ahead. GO OWLS!!

Bridges Team Dinner

One of the highlights of the Bridge's Kick-Off Classic is the team dinner the night before the game. Tomorrow we will take our juniors and seniors to the Bridges building at 477 N Fifth street just north of St. Judes. The boys will mix and mingle with players from the other teams and participate in some activities that promote the mission of Bridges. These activities should end around 8:00pm. We ask that the boys carpool as much as possible since parking space is tight at the building.

Sunday Workouts and Film Review

Our standard procedure is that we give the varsity and JV players Saturday off each week. The we come in on Sunday afternoon for a light weight workout and then review the film of the previous Friday game. The team this year voted to lift first at 2:00pm and then watch film from 3:00 to 4:00. This should allow everyone to attend their church youth group. When a player has a conflict on Sunday it is the same as missing any practice. He needs to notify his position coach in advance with the reason he needs to miss. We understand that there are going to be times a boy must miss a practice but we want him to be accountable to his teammates about his participation on this team. Thanks you for your cooperation.