When do you watch fil with kids?

We watch the previous game with our kids before practice on Monday. Watch for about an hour. Its all they can stand. Watch opponents film on Tuesday and Thursday during wt. lifting class.

We play Friday nights and bring in the players on Saturday morning at 8:30. We have a quick weight room workout and then only those who played in the game watch the previous game's film. Since we use HUDL, we only watch film one day as a team; this is Wednesday after practice. We split up (offense/defense) and watch about 20 minutes of film.

A couple of things we have done to reduce the marathon sessions.

We watch game film immediately after the kids leave on Friday. It's all ready late our wives and kids are in bed. We watch till about 1. Kids don't come back till later. If we are in town about ten. If we traveled 11.
Our thoughts are recovery is improved by letting them sleep. We get to have breakfast with our families too and we often bring our kids and let them play in the gym or help with laundry. Give mom/wife a break.
We watch specific game issues-D&D. QB LBer reads. Missed cAlls. Missed assignments. Missed tackles. We watch issues that everyone can learn from. If you watch position by position on each play old school style you lose kids.
Position coaches over the weekend do a short presentation about 10-12 clips of 7-8 plays where technique was used well and praise the hell out of it. They include 4-5 instances where improvement is needed and address what should have been done. Email it to kids. They have to come ready to discuss on Monday. They watch it because we included their highlights too.
As coordinator I make a giant presentation for staff meeting on Sunday. It includes. Alignment assignment adjustments. D&D tendencies and formation tendencies. I only show this part to kids on Monday before practice. Then there is top runs and how we will attack. I only show this part on Tuesday to kids. Then there is top passes and how we will attack. I show this to kids on Wednesdays. Each presentation breaks down to about 15 minutes and that as much as kids can take sometimes they are shorter. The film aligns directly with focus of practice so their is an immediate association for the kids. It helps them anticipate for practice which helps execution which boosts confidence.
Making it in the presenter format helps me organize. Also if I have a school obligation one of the assistants can do it. I can share with coaches and players who can review at their convenience.

A little of topic but can anybody give some insight on how to keep the kids attention, our film days always feel like an epic waste to our staff. We have tried to enforce paying attention with extra running, calling them out in front of the team etc. we even started making them turn off cell phones and place them on a desk in the front of the room. Nothing has worked and they get nothing from the session IMO. We have seriously considered not doing team film and just monitoring hudl activity so we don't waste practice time. Any ideas guys

Keep team film sessions short and maybe call in a kid to explain something to him individually and show him on film what he didn't do quite right in the game and then go over it at practice.

oh yeah,We watch our game film from the previous friday night on Monday before practice. The kids really enjoy seeing themselves playing so they're much more focused and attentive to see and learn. we will finish that film in an hour.

We as coaches watch film of the game we just played on Friday night. We go through it and as we see particular plays that have things that should be pointed out, we write them down. Before film on Saturday mornings, coordinators put together a playlist of what we wrote down from the night before. This will typically be about 15-20 plays. We typically will have notes on them as well. So when we watch film with the kids, we just watch a those select plays and point out things that need attention - some good and some mistakes to correct.

We do the same for opponent film. Defensively I make a playlist of their top 3 run plays out of their top formations and top 3 pass plays. I also incorporate any trick/unusual plays as well. It too will be about 15-20 plays. We watch this with them Monday after school before practice.

By doing it like this we try to reduce the amount of time in the film room but maximize what we are doing with that time. It also serves well to hold attention.

Do any of you feel that seven days a week is too much? Even NFL and college guys get one day off a week usually.

We do not require anything on Sundays.

We watched it Saturday morning after the game at about 10:00. They had breakfast for them, usually someone from booster club provided it. The linemen lifted for 30 mins, backs and rec watched gfilm, flipped afterwards. Watched opponents on Mondays, the varsity first, while JV lifted then flipped. Worked well..

Realdawg,
So your kids don't come in on Saturday? How did that work?

Our kids do not come in on Saturday. Never have, and as far as I know, there is no one around here who brings their kids in on Saturday. Our staff meetings are Saturday morning at 9. Works fine for us, but then I've never known it any other way.

We go 6 days, I think 7 is too much. Mon we watch clips from sat's game and then watch our next opp for 20 min. Next season I want to get an extra session on thurs.

Gibbs been on staffs that did not bring in kids, choose to bring them in myself. I feel it gives us a chance for a head start. The same stuff we show them is packaged and sent to the kids on hudle. As for family we get off around 4 this past season and then come back Sunday for about 4 hours give or take. During the week practice film is what takes so much time, not for kids but for coordinators.

I tried the 6 day schedule one year. A lot of kids didn't show up. A lot of the ones who did were banged up and could've used the rest. I'm open to trying it again, I just don't see how it doesn't wear on them. I'm willing to admit that the year in question was one where the staff didn't have nor did we deserve the respect and trust of our kids. That probably had more to do with the burnout and lack of effort than the schedule.