Road Game: Show Up Time

In our conference we play the Sophomore/JV Game (sophs are JV) right before the Varsity game. Typically the JV shows up 45-60 minutes before kickoff. Varsity shows up 1/2 way through 1st quarter, specials warm up during half time of JV game. It works out to about 90 minutes before game.

If we did not have a JV game I would prefer being there about 1:15 early. Too early kids are standing around too much, too late coaches and kids feel rushed.

I agree with keysersoze...and great movie by the way..one of the greatest twists of all time

i for one hate the down time before the game. A perfect arrival time for us with a 7 pm tip off would be for the bus to pull in the other teams parking lot at 5:45. the kids walk the game field and get the lay of the land then walk back in to get taped and dressed. Our first group goes out at 6 pm, qbs and centers to warm their arms up and take some snaps. Five minutes later the rest of the speciality people go out and warm up kicking, snapping and throwing. At 6:15 they all come back in, actually how much kickin, throwing and snapping do you need. At 6:20 we go out as a team in complete gear and begin our stretch and pre-game routine. By the way, we never go out in full pads to warm up. I think you can reserve a lot of energy by doing simple things like that. I have seen coaches design an intricate pre-game ritual that totally has his team tired before the game even starts. It is great to see the ones that hollar and yell, cheer while they warm up. The best are the turds that let their players come to the 50 yard line and hollar things at your team while they stretch, classy. Sometimes our kids start hollaring back so we tell them it does not matter who cheers in the beginning but who is cheering in the end, have some class and go about your business. By the way i have many coaching friends who will arrive up to three hours before the game and I have no idea of what they do with their kids all of that time, i guess play cards or checkers or something. Many ways to skin a cat as they say, not one right or wrong. Only key is to remember not to play the game before you play the game. Still points for pretty warm ups do not go in the win and loss columun

Seeing everything from 1 hour to 2 hours, which is what I expected.

We had a team that showed up 10 minutes before kickoff one time.........it was a momentum thing for them, and completely threw us off.

Anyone do this?

+1

Planning to do this to our week 1 rival. They're only 25 min away. They have a brand new head coach in his first game. Should rattle him even more than he'll already be.

Kinda had it backfire...we had done it 2x already with success during my first year. The last time we were in the middle of offensive run-throughs when we got kicked out by the town cops of our opponent. Said we didn't have a permit to use town fields. Lost that one 17-7...haven't done it since.

We played a team that was 7 miles away, we warmed up at our school, bused over, ran off the bus onto the field...kicked it off and played. That's the only time I ever did it. However, there was a coach in our conference a few years back who warmed up at his place almost always and then rolled in right before kickoff to play.

2 hours before game time... specialists out 80 minutes before, rest of team out 60 minutes before... Gives time to use restroom and get all their junk done

Our Varsity games are at 7:00 PM... Don't run into issues getting there at 5:00

For lower levels (games at 3:00), we have to be there 30 minutes early, stretch and go... not the big 'production' like Varsity

My college coach said you had to get to the game early so you could worry.