Managing Your Program: Creating the Installation Schedule for Fall Camp

Recently, the three-day installation has become a popular topic. It seems the challenge is to see how fast you can install your offense, and the process is repeated with deeper levels of understanding being developed in each repetition of the installation. This is something Dana Holgersen made popular at West Virginia. While I have implemented the three-day initial install, I extended the total install out to seven days with a layered approach. Each subsequent day adds layers to the initial installation of concepts that were done in days one through three (See Chart).Whether you take three days or seven days, the most important thing is player understanding. After the initial install, which is accomplished in three days, we added the situational element to our install with the situational application of our offense. We are able to put in more shifts and motions, and apply our concepts