The Hippo Drill to Improve Passing Fundamentals   You have to
keep score. As with almost all of our drills, we want to step up
the intensity here by adding a real element of competition. The
reward for winning might be cheering the others as they do
sprints or shuttle runs. But the winning prize I have had the
most success with is which team has to collect the balls after
practice, and they need to collect all the balls in three
minutes or run two sprints before collecting the balance of the
balls.   Variations can also be added. For example, if the team
in white pennies loses possession by failing to make a pass in
five seconds, the offensive player rolls the ball out of bounds,
and the coach rolls a ball to a player on the other team at some
other location anywhere on the field. Now we have ground ball
and field recognition scenarios added to the Hippo Drill.
Another variation that can help game situations is that once the
ball is in the box, it always needs to stay in the box, or the
offensive team loses