Due to the wealth of football coaching experience and knowledge present here on the GID I thought this may be a good topic for discussion.
A question came to me while of all things listening to a podcast reviewing a reality series about competitive cheerleading. In this reality series the adult coach/manager of the cheer team had a 'policy' that if during practice some level of mistake was made by an individual team member then the entire squad had to stop and do a certain number of push-ups. The reason for this given by the coach/manager was along the lines of "it's a team activity, if one fails then they all fail. If one should be punished then they all should be punished".
Is this type of 'group discipline' approach also favored by football coaches here in Indiana? If say during practice while running offensive plays the running back fumbles the ball before being hit by the defense or a receiver drops an easy pass is the entire offense punished in some way (wind sprints, push-ups, etc.)? Or on a defensive side of the ball say a linebacker during a tackle grabs the runner/receivers face mask, which in a game would result in a penalty. Is the entire defense punished?
Just curious as to how coaches approach this, and is it applied differently for different levels of the game.
Thank you for your time.