How does your school handle Labor Day practice? 

In HS, Coach French would roll in, pulling his boat about 6:45 pm and we practiced at 7 pm. For Coach Gruneisen, he gave the staff the day off on Sunday. We came in Monday morning for staff meetings. Practice was that afternoon. 

What we are doing now, we have the staff meeting Sunday as always, but practice is Labor Day, 8 am - 11 am.  That gives the kids and coaches the rest of the day off to do cookouts and family events. I also like the extra recovery time from a Monday practice. 

A couple times over the years, we took Labor Day off. Tuesday was rough, but by Friday we were fine and maybe a little fresher. 

We had 100% attendance this morning. Practice had some rough spots, but overall was a very productive day. 

Happy Labor Day!

Your guys should be pumped Coach with the big road win last week!

Well done!

12 minutes ago, Purple88 said:

Your guys should be pumped Coach with the big road win last week!

Well done!

It was a really good night for us. Proud of our guys. It has been tough and we're not out of the woods yet. We had some growing pains this morning, but that can be expected. Nothing like a heavy dose of up downs on a Labor Day morning.  ?

Thank you!

If I was a football coach, I would have no practice because I don't think missing one practice over the course of a long season is going to make or break the season. But, maybe that's why I'm not a football coach. Lol.

17 hours ago, Tigerpride94 said:

If I was a football coach, I would have no practice because I don't think missing one practice over the course of a long season is going to make or break the season. But, maybe that's why I'm not a football coach. Lol.

If it's an off week, I would say 100% give your kids a day off.  If not, you really need to look into your opponent and your confidence level, and also the health of the kids at that point.  Even then I would say a light practice or conditioning.

We always had practice labor day morning, after we cleaned up any left over garbage from the fireworks festival the schools hosts every year. My theory was it had just as much to do with keeping the schedule regular and to try and keep people in check on that Sunday night.

Back when I played in the 80's, in our area, we typically hadn't started school (we always started the Wednesday after Labor Day), and would typically have our first game the Friday after Labor Day. Labor Day was kind of the celebration of the end of camp after 2 weeks of two-a-days and 3 days of 3-a-days. We'd normally practice early in the AM, and then have a team breakfast with the parents in the school cafeteria, where the team captains for the year would be announced. Everything would be done by 11 am or so, and we'd have the rest of the day to relax. We always looked forward to Labor Day, because it signaled the end of the tough times of camp, and the beginning of when the fun started, playing games on Friday night.