What time do you get home?

M-W Im home around 8, depending on post practice film.
T- During JV season, Im home around 9-10. If the JV season is over or we don't have a game, about 5:30/
F- 2-3 am. I do all the hudl stats and enter everything, plus it is a great way for me to unwind after a game. I can never sleep.

Saturday- I do not go to the school. I watch film at home and try to relax a little.
Sunday-Meet from 1-6.

No. Just in college. 

Noon to midnight?

Sunday - Off, family day only (and NFL of course)
Monday - Our whole staff guys to JV games, but I call the offense on Monday nights and make sure all the kids have rides, so 9 when we're home and it depends on away nights
Tuesday and Wednesday - 6:15, we practice from 3:15 to 5:30 and meet afterward to plan for the next day, shot the ish
Thursday - Pre-game practice and team diner hosted by a players family, so 7-7:30
Friday - 2-4 am, film breakdown and "socializing"
Saturday - 9-10 am with the kids, 11am-3pm, film breakdown and game planning as staff

That's about it. This is my third staff and third different schedule and I think it is a good balance.

What is a 'football class'?

"Rather"?

Monday- home by 5 unless home JV game 7:30-8
T-W home by 5
Th- Home by 4
Friday - Home game 11/ Away game between 11-1 depending on travel
Saturday - 8AM until 11: Grade Friday night's film. Enter the data for the next opponent. This is spilt between 4 coach by Hudl
Sunday - 10AM until 5: All information is in Hudl by 10AM. Put the info on the board for HC of next opponent. All staff meets at 2

It helps that we have football starting at 1:25 during the week.

Where is the HC during this time?

It is the schedule I have run for the last 3 years for our HC.

It might sound foolish, but it is dead on and my girl said I was being generous with time. She gave the old "don't include what you do in the off-season".

Our HC is very resistant on giving out responsibilities and delegating. I take on more than I should, but I love it. I feel I have worked hard over the years and earned it and want him to know he has me if he needs anything. I have no kids and a great girl who gets frustrated, but was given the outline when she signed up. She knows where I want to go and who I am. She is 100% on board.

I want to be the best assistant coach I can be. I want to be the coach that I would like to have on staff someday. I want to get to the top and become a HC and I ask for a lot so I am prepared when the day comes. The HC might abuse me a little, but it is what is best for the kids, the program, and the staff.

I try to lead by example for our kids and guys on staff to show what it means to have a good work ethic, desire to better yourself and provide everything they need and then some. I don't have to do it, but I choose to. Everyone thinks I am crazy and tells me to cool down even guys I work with. I tell them "if you want me to take it easy, they help me out so I can get some free time." I don't get any takers. I have tried to delegate and get burned. I tell myself if you want it done, do it yourself. My father is a workaholic and never understood why he put in the hours he did and still does without compensation or appreciation at his employment where he has been for 40 years. I grew up asking why and why was he never around and like the Harry Chapin song Cats in the Cradle I grew up just like him. I know nothing else. Work is what I like. It keeps me busy and keeps my add and ocd in line.

Our HC is there a lot too. Our high school is large and has great tradition. He has his hat in alot of things and try to support and make his job easier if I can do anything to help him out. He has recently started a family and I want him to have the all the time he can with them and if that means I have to stay a little longer and do a little more then so be it. I rather help others first than worry about myself.

I get home after 7:00.

Monday through Wednesday: (leave home approx 5 am - return approx 7:45 pm, give or take... I live about 30-35 minutes from school)

• I arrive at field house about 5:30 am to get in a 30 minute workout (usually about 5:45 - to 6:15, approx).
• Most coaches begin arriving around 6:15 am.
  
• Freshmen start strolling in about 6:30 am.
• At 6:45 the Freshmen will lift in the weight room - lower body, usually a squat & a clean station. nothing major.
  
• 7:15 to 8:25 - freshmen practice (this time includes the 1st period of the school day, which is freshmen athletics)
  
• We will teach a few classes then have varsity & JV athletic period - in which we lift.
  
• A couple of more classes after lunch, then varsity position meetings right after school while JV is doing specialty work
  
• Varsity/JV practice after that until about 6:15.
  
• Kids will shower, we'll do some laundry, etc.
  
• Leave the field house around 7 or shortly thereafter ... rarely past 7:30 pm.

Thursday (leave home @ 5 am - return @ 10:20 ish)

• Arrive & workout, same time. 
  
• Freshmen practice (walk through, basically) starts at 7:30 am.
• School same as above
  
• Varsity practice right after school - maybe 20 minutes.
  
• Freshmen game @ 5:30 followed by JV game @ 7-ish (depends on Fr game)
• Usually leaving (home game) around 10 pm or shortly thereafter

Friday (leave @ 7 - return depends on game location)

• Arrive at 7:30
• freshmen lift when school starts
• school
• personnel workout right after school (home game) or during conference (travel)
• game
• I leave from the game with wife & upload-breakdown film from home.
• usually in bed around 2 am.

Saturday (leave @ 7:30, return around 4:15 pm)

• Arrive field house 8 am
• players arrive at 9 for treatment w/trainer, lift, run at 9:30
• shower then film at 10:30
• send them home after about 30-40 minutes
• start scouting report, game plan, etc.
• lunch
• continue leave about 4 pm or so. usually a little earlier, sometimes a little later. rarely, if ever, there past 5 pm
  usually

Sunday (don't go in)

• church
• lunch with family (parents included)
• film study on own at own pace from home
• maybe text or call another coach with an idea - or get a text/call from a coach with an idea

repeat the next week.


All told, I would say we probably 'work' about 80 to 82 hours a week.  Some weeks a little less; some weeks a little more.  This "work" includes coaching, teaching, games, meetings, game prep, laundry, travel to and from games, etc.

Pretty much, that 80 hours encompasses all the time spent away from home Monday through Saturday.

Monday 5-6 (8-9 if away JV game, 7:00 if home JV game)

Tuesday - Thursday 6:30 - 7:00

Friday: 10:00-12:00 (may watch little film after the game and everyones in bed)

Saturday: Nothing scheduled. I will send some texts, but will not watch film during the day. This is the day I will do any thing and every thing my wife wants to do. I will watch film once the wife and kids are all in bed.

Sunday: Nothing scheduled. Text message A LOT. I will watch film after the wife and kids are in bed.

*My wife will schedule stuff on Saturdays with a "big game" coming up so I can watch film Saturday morning. I try to limit the football widow feeling as much as possible.

Anywhere from 6:30-7:30, unless there's a 9th/10th grade home game, then it's later. Or if I decide to stop at the Alamo Freeze.

I usually never get home before midnight on gamedays.