my school is one of the top programs in the state and our coaches do wayyy to much to keep it thats way.  We had spring football which was practice everyday for 2 weeks then went to yale football camp which is 2 a days for a week then now we have conditioning and weight training all summer every monday, wednesday, and friday at 6am.  Today i had to wake up at like 5:30 to go run sprints, it sucks.  I love football and would never quit, but what we do is just insane.  Last year our saturday morning practices were all running.  We always ran "man makers" on saturdays which is really bad. Man maker = 10 100yard sprints, 8 80yards, 6 60yards, 4 40yards then we would have a full contact scrimmage after and everyone is too tired to do anything so people just get killed.  We have like a 4 or 5 month off season but it seems way shorter than that.