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Greenville football players hope to be doing a lot of celebrating under new head coach Aaron Schaffer this season.
The Wave will open on the road August 24 at Eaton. CNO File Photo
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Schaffer positive about 2012 Wave football season
New concept: three-a-days
By George Starks
GREENVILLE- With the prep football season just a mere 24 days away,
local high schools are scrambling to see who are players and who are
just playing.
In the case of first year Greenville head coach Aaron Schaffer, it is full steam ahead as he starts three-a-days.
Not two-a-days.
A different approach to the dog days of August.
“The three-a-day thing allows the kids to go out, one and a
half hours at a time with a break between sessions instead of two and a
half hours,” said Schaffer. “It seems by doing it this way, the tempo
of the practices is better and the kids are ready to get their work
done. After the first session, you give them a quick 45 minute break
and they get back out there. I think it’s easier for the kids to stay
focused on the work at hand. We get the same amount of time as a
two-a-day, we just break it up and it’s better. So instead of two
longer practices, we do three shorter practices.”
A different concept and a different way to attack a time frame most players dread.
According to Schaffer, his players seem to accept the new concept.
“I think they like it this way more because it breaks
things up and again, it helps them to stay focused,” Schaffer stated.
“The practices are more up-tempo and so far they seem to have accepted
it well. I’ve had success with it in the past at Fairborn and it was
affective there.”
Not only does the concept affect the kids but the coaches as well.
“It really helps out the coaches that are non-teachers
because it allows them to work their regular day jobs,” Schaffer
stated. “With the extra break, it allows those coaches to plan things
instead of doing it all with one break. We are able to sit down
together as a staff and talk things over as to what we’re doing and how
we’re going to do it. So it helps us develop a good, solid practice
plan.”
With conditioning in the book, Schaffer was pleased with the turnout and now focuses on actual practices.
“As a coach, you always want a 100 percent turn-out for
conditioning,” Schaffer said. “The kids that did come out for
conditioning worked hard. We have 55 kids out for football. It’s not as
high as we’d like but we’ll take what we got and work with them, but
regardless of the numbers, the goal remains the same and that’s to win
the GWOC North.”
With scrimmages on the horizon and opening night at Eaton
on August 24, Schaffer is excited to be back at his alma-mater,
Greenville.
(Tomorrow, more from coach Schaffer and his outlook on Greenville Football.)
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