Football duties are really never over for coaches at the high school and college levels. Still, the next few months allow some time for relaxation and reflection.

It also provides the opportunity for high school coaches what most of them enjoy most – the ability to be a “full time” football coach.

Lesson plans and grading papers are out of the way. Now is the perfect time to focus on the passion behind coaching and put together materials that help you, your staff and your players better understand their positions and techniques to get better for the fall.

The best of today’s position coaches have two things in some form or another: a drill tape and a drill chart. Both are necessary in being organized and efficient when camp hits later this summer and the sense of urgency to prepare for game day is in full swing.

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A drill chart should be 100 percent specific to what your players will do on game day. This involves creating a menu of the plays in your offense and developing drills that specifically teach the techniques utilized in execution of the assignments of the play.

Then, take it a step further and teach the adjustments to the different scenarios that will happen on any given play.

If you find you have been using a drill that does not replicate what happens on game day, eliminate it and replace it with one that does. In doing this evaluation, you will develop a list of skills and drills that you must work each week to prepare your players.

After putting together your chart, assemble video of the drill. Whether the drill is of your team doing it or from another coach, enhance that video by utilizing a screencast with voice over to create short instructional videos that share the setup, focus, objectives and coaching points being practiced.

Share this with players as well, serving two purposes: It allows players to gain understanding of what is being done on the field, and it gives them a library of drills that they can work on their own.

Finally, find game video of every single technique being done properly, ideally with the scenarios being drilled. This takes the focus from isolated drills and puts it together within the context of what actually happens on game day. Applying a drill to a game is the purpose of practice, so this solidifies understanding for the player.

The process is time consuming, but you will be amazed at how organizing your materials will give both you and your players a better understanding of what you need to get accomplished in practice.

Keith Grabowski has been a football coach for 26 years, currently serving as an offensive assistant and technology coordinator at Oberlin College in Ohio. He previously was a head coach at the high school level for eight years and the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Baldwin Wallace University. Grabowski serves as an advisor for several sports technology companies. He is a columnist for American Football Monthly and writes his own blog at thecoachesedge.com/blog. He’s the author of “101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays” and five other books available on thecoachesedge.com and operates Coaches Edge Technologies. Follow him on Twitter @CoachKGrabowski.