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Post by Wingtman on Jan 29, 2015 8:59:25 GMT -6
Mondays around 9 if there is a jv home game, 10 if its away. Tuesday-Wednesday about 7. Thursday- 6pm. (Walk thru day, normally off the field about 5:30) Friday-Anywhere from 11-1 depending on travel. Saturday- Family day Sunday- I work from about 9-1, then coaches meeting from 5-7. Its what works for us. I do a little work during the day too, but I normally keep this schedule.
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Post by bigm0073 on Jan 29, 2015 12:31:26 GMT -6
Monday - Wednesday Home at 6:30 PM range...
Thursday Walk Thru - Home at 5:15 range
Friday - 10:30 - 11:30.. depending.. travel, etc...
Saturday - No organized activities.. Coaches are on their own to watch, breakdown film..etc.. We will call throughout the day but we allow people to work at their own pace - With HUDL and Technology we have been doing this since 2011.
Sunday - Defense meets at the DCs house for about 3-4 hours.. depending.. I meet with the offense from around 3:30 - 6:30 range..
We do not bring kids in on Saturdays I am at school most days 7:15 AM... Play basketball Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:00 AM.. We are an established staff and have been together for a few years. All of my varsity coaches are between 39-46 years old.. We all get it.
We have used this schedule for the past four years. Over that period we went to 3 state semifinals and made the playoffs and beyond every year. Over that period we are 39 - 13.
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Post by BootNShoot on Jan 29, 2015 18:41:25 GMT -6
Monday - 6:30pm Tuesday - 6:30pm Wednesday - 6:30pm Thursday - We have Junior High games here so 7:30/8pm if it's a home game. Friday - Late...1 or 2 am regardless of home or away. Watch film and have some social time. Saturday - JV games are played so roughly from 8:30am - 12:30pm on home games....8:30 - 10am for away games. Sunday - Staff meeting 6pm - 8pm.
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Post by s73 on Jan 30, 2015 8:56:12 GMT -6
M- 630 ish T & W 7 TH - 630 ish (after team meal) F - depends on game S - 9- whenever we finish (has been as early as noon and as late as 230) Sunday - I just like to come in on my own and work until I'm comfortable w/ what we're doing. FOR ME, I find that the more comfortable I am w/ what we're doing the less stress I feel during the week. So FOR ME, it's just a watch film thing until I feel comfortable. No time frame. Has actually been kind of therapeutic to be alone in my office. I NEED to tune out "the noise" of the season periodically.
Just started doing the Sunday thing this past season. I don't even see it as work really. More of an afternoon activity.
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Post by ryanculloty on Jan 30, 2015 9:57:08 GMT -6
Monday - Wednesday Home at 6:30 PM range...
Thursday Walk Thru -Go to the FR & JV game--home around 9 PM
Friday - 10:30 - Go out to eat with the staff post-game home around 1230-1 AM
Saturday - No organized activities.. Coaches are on their own to watch, breakdown film..etc.. - With HUDL and Technology we have been doing this since 2010.
Sunday - I arrive at the school around 4:30-5:00 AM Staff meeting 8am to 11:30am and out
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Post by newhope on Jan 30, 2015 13:52:48 GMT -6
M-usually around 9:30 T,W--usually around 8 to 8:30 TH-home JV around 8:30, away may be as late as 11, no JV 6 pm F--usually between 2 and 3 am Sat--work at home Sun--1 to about 6
Looking at the rest of you, I'm spending too much time at this. This, of course, is in season.
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Post by Yash on Jan 30, 2015 21:48:24 GMT -6
I'm showing this thread to my wife... I'm a saint compared to some guys in here. Monday home by 5:30-6. Tuesday/Wednesday home by 6:30. Thursday home by 5:30. Friday around 11. Saturday film with guys 8-10am. Sunday staff meeting 5-7pm.
Either we are too stupid to put a complex gameplan together or you guys see more complex stuff than we do. Also some of you guys need to delegate if you are spending 12 hours in the office on Saturday and Sunday. We run option so our offensive gameplan is pretty simple. No idea how you guys spend 12 hours in office with huddle. I would be divorced.
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Post by kmiller716 on Jan 31, 2015 5:55:24 GMT -6
First full year with current HC. Love our in season routine...and so does wife.
M-W: practice 3:20 to 5, informal field MTG with coaches and in car to pick up kids by 5:20ish. (Wife gets out of work at 5:30 home by 5:50 and I have dinner going). She loves it. Helps for Thurs/Fri..
Thursday: JV game after walk thru...typically after 9
Friday: Late night. 1am. Families already in bed so we all try to do as much as possible in terms of laundry and self scouting Hudl data entry.
Sat: I help HC tie loose ends. We watch upcoming opponents informally and discuss practice schedule needs. 8 to 11.
Hudl over the weekend and defensive staff uses Talk Box app to discuss game plan. We keep things pretty consistent and simple so it is more of a discussion on what we need to fix and what the off strengths/weaknesses are.
Great staff....
We work more in off season with this staff compared to others I have been on. M-Thurs 3 to 5ish coaches are in bldg working with players not in sport.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 31, 2015 23:29:18 GMT -6
Making certain assumptions about the scheduling of our last game, our next game, and our opponent's last game, let's say we played Saturday at home and play again Saturday afternoon at home
Sunday: 10-6/8 Monday: 10-6 Tuesday: 10-9 Wednesday: 10-9 Thursday: 10-9 Friday: 10-7 Saturday: 10-7+postgame festivities
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Post by veerman on Feb 2, 2015 7:31:16 GMT -6
M-usually around 9:30 T,W--usually around 8 to 8:30 TH-home JV around 8:30, away may be as late as 11, no JV 6 pm F--usually between 2 and 3 am Sat--work at home Sun--1 to about 6 Looking at the rest of you, I'm spending too much time at this. This, of course, is in season. Are you married?
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Post by coachklee on Feb 4, 2015 8:16:08 GMT -6
Mon, Tue, Thurs - practice is over at 6:15, usually home around 7:00. Wed - we have a staff meeting after practice, the length varies, usually get home around 9:30 Friday - depends on the game. Home game I could get home around 11, but if we go out I get home around 2,2:30,3 ish. Away games the same if they are local, some of our games are 2-4 hours away so, whenever we get back I go straight home. Saturday in the office by 7:30, leave at 1:00 pm We don't meet on Sundays anymore or didn't last year. I should note, I'm the DC and we just do what we do, so game plan wise it's not a lot of time on our part once hudl gets charted and reports printed, all that's left is making some minor decisions and laying out practice. Our freshman & JV games were on Saturday, not sure what day they are on at the new school. Why the longer meeting on Wednesday and not Monday or Tuesday?
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Post by coachgtiller on Feb 4, 2015 8:42:53 GMT -6
Monday - anywhere from 6:30-11 depending on if we have a JV game and where it's at Tuesday and Wednesday - 7-8 depending on how long film and staff meeting go Thursday - usually around 6. Practice goes til 5:15 and then team meal after that Friday - anywhere from 12-2 once film is ready to be traded we usually go to a coaches house and have a few brewski's and unwind together. Saturday- HUDL breakdown on our own. But I have tackle chart from the night before and a few other responsibilities so I usually go in from 7:30-10 (the 7:30 is sometimes pushed back due to celebrations the night before) Sunday - we meet from 6-9ish to go over gameplan
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 4, 2015 23:13:38 GMT -6
...Guys, what the f*ck?
I understand some of you guys are playing some pretty 'big boy football'... But seriously what the f*ck?
There's this thing about Japanese work culture where you're not supposed to leave before the boss does and the boss wants to stay late to show that he's working hard, so the employees are sitting there at their desks waiting for the boss to leave, while the bosses are sitting at their desks not wanting to leave until they feel they've stayed late enough and so on.
Break the cycle?
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Post by Yash on Feb 5, 2015 6:43:13 GMT -6
Amen, Mariner... no wonder coaches get a bad rap. What do you accomplish in hours 9-12 of meeting on Sunday that you didn't in the first 8 hours? We have a league pool on Hudl so we get every game our opponents, but we don't break down every game. We dont watch them beat the crap out of the bad teams in our league. Also I have one coach who "Live tags" the games of the teams we are playing the following week, during the current week so we have the down, distance, ODK, run pass in hudl prior to that week. saves time during that week. Takes the guy about an hour to do both games.
I make $3,500 for the year long process of coaching football.... thats not worth losing my family over by abandoning them for 4 months.
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Post by dytmook on Feb 5, 2015 7:20:11 GMT -6
Monday- 6:30ish Tuesday- 7:30ish if we watch film Wednesday 6:30ish Thursday- 8ish. We usually have a senior dinner that I'll attend, I mean free food... Friday- 1am Saturday- 1pm after JV Sunday- Meeting from 11-2 usually. 1 hour offense, 1 hour staff, and 1 hour defense if I stay for it. Being the JV head guy I like to know the basic defensive game plan to make sure we don't' do anything too stupid.
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Post by newhope on Feb 5, 2015 11:08:30 GMT -6
M-usually around 9:30 T,W--usually around 8 to 8:30 TH-home JV around 8:30, away may be as late as 11, no JV 6 pm F--usually between 2 and 3 am Sat--work at home Sun--1 to about 6 Looking at the rest of you, I'm spending too much time at this. This, of course, is in season. Are you married? Yes, I am. To a former coach. Kids are all grown.
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Post by paydirt18 on Feb 5, 2015 12:30:14 GMT -6
Something that our kids, parents and coaches all appreciate...WE NEVER HAVE OTAs on a Sunday. Coaches can watch hudl at home, we can communicate by email or phone. We don't feel the need to meet. I make scout cards at home or during prep periods on Monday. I promise the coaches wives up front that Ill need the coaches during the week but they can count on them Saturday nights and Sundays. Its a very workable schedule. We all work hard and get it done. I don't think we need to put in more time, its about teamwork and cutting out the fluff to do what is important. Coach, I couldn't agree more. I read some of the earlier posts and when I was younger I did some of the same stuff. But then as I matured and grew in the profession I realized a lot of it was overkill. I have been fortunate enough to work for both some tyrants and some really level headed guys. Once I became a HC (now in my 10th year) I chose the path of the level headed approach. Another point I will add is you can prep all you want; watch film until your eyes pop out. It doesn't matter if your kids don't do the same, grasp concepts, etc. Whoever said "it aint about the Xs and Os, it's about the Jimmys and Joes" was spot on at the HS level. This is a simple game. Especially at the HS level. Sure, you prepare but to me the most important thing you can do at the HS level is develop high character in these young men. It took me a while to realize that; I wanted the glory and to be that "guy". Then I realized if you develop your young men correctly, the Ws will take care of itself.
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Post by tigercoach11 on Feb 5, 2015 12:42:34 GMT -6
Monday - Wednesday - get home between 9-9:30. Post-practice meeting with staff followed by meeting with the HC. Clean-up and make sure everything is secure and gather and/or develop anything coach needs in regard to adjusting practice script, additional film breakdown, cut-ups and securing the facility. Wednesday - 8:30 - meeting with staff and HC. Finalize game plan and practice plan and finalize special teams schemes and/or adjustments from practice week. Thursday - 7:30-8 - after practice we have team meal and then show face at feeder school games. Make sure everything is ready for game night as far as technology and equipment go. Friday - I do not go home. I work until 4 am or so. I have to secure the field, breakdown game film and label, exchange tape, clean-up after game, and begin on next opponent. Our HC wants our previous night's game broken down and 1 game of upcoming opponent when he arrives at 6 am. Saturday - work from 6- 2 pm. Have technology and cut-ups ready for varsity film at 8, film breakdown for upcoming opponents which is 2 games. Begin breakdown and game plan for special teams. Head back to the office from 8-10 to meet with HC to continue game plan and breakdown of opponents. Sunday - 10-10. I create scouting reports for staff, breakdowns/reports per HC request, scout cards, practice plans, recruiting film sent out, etc. Holy Crap! I am the HC with NO FULL TIME assistants ( a couple volunteer/stipend guys help out) so I act as OC/DC/ST/water boy/laundry etc... and I do not even do this!! Hats off to you coach, that is a serious schedule. I am usually home no later than 7 M-W unless there is a JH or JV Game at home and I need to help them out. Thursday I am home by 5 unless a JH/JV game is going on at home. Either Wed or Thursday I take my wife out to dinner no matter what. We don't miss our weekly dinner. Friday (obviously depending on travel) is a little later night. After game I make sure film from that night is uploaded in HUDL and I do stats real quick, then hit the bed. Sat we bring kids up at 8 (depending on time we got home from night before) lift/run/watch fridays film/ release. I then go home. Usually done by 9:30-10 am. I Do work all day breaking down next opponent but I do it from home so I can eat lunch/dinner withe family and Im there if they need me for something. Sunday I finish up game plan and film, sometimes it takes all morning/afternoon sometimes not. I again do this from home so I might not be 100% there with my fam but I am present physically and will take breaks to play with my young son (my brain needs it). I always make sure I am done no later than 5:00 pm. No football after that, period! I watch movie/TV and enjoy dinner with my wife/son the rest of the evening.
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Post by fantom on Feb 5, 2015 12:54:45 GMT -6
Although I think that some of these guys' schedules are insane I don't understand how you can do without a weekend staff meeting. We're going to have to evaluate personnel and that will lead to some frank discussions that are better done behind closed doors. We also need to finalize the game plan, make sure that each coach approves and may have some suggestions, amd ensure that each position coach understands clearly what he needs to get done at practice that week. We're not going to waste time drawing scout cards and writing scripts- coordinators do that on their own- but I wouldn't be comfortable goig into a game week without having all of the assistants meeting face to face.
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Post by mholst40 on Feb 5, 2015 13:24:16 GMT -6
M-W: 6:30ish (this depends on what I'm handling after practice) Th: 5:30 if we don't have team dinner (only for home games)/ 6:30 if we have team dinner/ 9:00 if I go to the frosh game F: Midnight (We usually go to our head coaches house after most games, but my wife typically comes with me Sa: Practice is from 9-11am. Su: I'm home all day. We meet as a defensive staff at my house for about 2 hours. We review the previous week's game and finalize game plan for opponent.
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Post by coach2013 on Feb 5, 2015 16:55:14 GMT -6
Something that our kids, parents and coaches all appreciate...WE NEVER HAVE OTAs on a Sunday. Coaches can watch hudl at home, we can communicate by email or phone. We don't feel the need to meet. I make scout cards at home or during prep periods on Monday. I promise the coaches wives up front that Ill need the coaches during the week but they can count on them Saturday nights and Sundays. Its a very workable schedule. We all work hard and get it done. I don't think we need to put in more time, its about teamwork and cutting out the fluff to do what is important. Coach, I couldn't agree more. I read some of the earlier posts and when I was younger I did some of the same stuff. But then as I matured and grew in the profession I realized a lot of it was overkill. I have been fortunate enough to work for both some tyrants and some really level headed guys. Once I became a HC (now in my 10th year) I chose the path of the level headed approach. Another point I will add is you can prep all you want; watch film until your eyes pop out. It doesn't matter if your kids don't do the same, grasp concepts, etc. Whoever said "it aint about the Xs and Os, it's about the Jimmys and Joes" was spot on at the HS level. This is a simple game. Especially at the HS level. Sure, you prepare but to me the most important thing you can do at the HS level is develop high character in these young men. It took me a while to realize that; I wanted the glory and to be that "guy". Then I realized if you develop your young men correctly, the Ws will take care of itself. I think "game planning" is a concept that is overworked at the high school level. If you are going to be GOOD at something its got to be WHAT YOU DO AND WHO YOU ARE and that just cant change from game to game. Not for us, with the athletes we have or do not have.
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Post by olinedude on Feb 11, 2015 10:53:03 GMT -6
M-630-8ish T-630-8ish W-630-7ish T-8:15-midnight usually F-8:15-1am/2am S-8-1/2pm Sun-3-8/9 depending on how we are playing
I'd rather grind on saturday and take sunday off, but thats the HC plan so thats what we do. I don't see how you can adequately plan for a game without at least 6-8 hours on the weekend.
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Post by fantom on Feb 11, 2015 12:03:58 GMT -6
M-630-8ish T-630-8ish W-630-7ish T-8:15-midnight usually F-8:15-1am/2am S-8-1/2pm Sun-3-8/9 depending on how we are playing I'd rather grind on saturday and take sunday off, but thats the HC plan so thats what we do. I don't see how you can adequately plan for a game without at least 6-8 hours on the weekend. What in the Wide World of Sports are you doing until midnight on Thursdays? For that matter, what are you doing until 8 on Monday and Tuesday?
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Post by olinedude on Feb 11, 2015 12:11:37 GMT -6
We practice until about 7 on mon-tuesday since we have weights and film during the period and don't get to start until about 5, then we have to make sure all the kids get gone. Thursday we have fresh/jv games, and I'm at a 6a school in texas so we have 2 games(2 fresh. and 2 jv) and the second one usually doesnt end up starting until around 8. Then factor in travel, uploading sub varsity film to huddle, making sure kids get rides to get home, starting sub varsity wash, and then actually driving home it usually ends up midnight. If its a home game and we're running the ball a lot sometimes we might get home 10-11. Also, we do spend a lot of time waiting around for a couple kids parents' to come pick them up, but its a lower income school so we have to make sure they actually make it home.
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Post by veerman on Feb 12, 2015 10:55:24 GMT -6
M-630-8ish T-630-8ish W-630-7ish T-8:15-midnight usually F-8:15-1am/2am S-8-1/2pm Sun-3-8/9 depending on how we are playing I'd rather grind on saturday and take sunday off, but thats the HC plan so thats what we do. I don't see how you can adequately plan for a game without at least 6-8 hours on the weekend.b I use to think that you had to game plan for 8hrs as well. But I will ssay this, I have realized that you can out coach yourself on the weekends too. We were state runners up last year, did the same type of game planning and had guys that could flat out play. Mistakes were not as obvious cause the results were good. We lost a lot of those guys, especially on the defensive side of the ball. We started off the year like last year with multiple checks (either coverage or front checks), after about 4 wks we realized that some of our kids were not performing to their full potential on the field. They were playing slow and confused. We decided instead of trying to game plan as much and trying to check our defense into the best defense possible in every situation they may show, we decided that we was just going to play the defense called, it may not be the the Best but still Sound. This put it on us to make the adjustments insteaad of our kids worrying about trying to get us checked into the right defense before the ball waas snapped on some plays. Our kids played faster more confidant and our defense improved more and more as the season went on.
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Post by olinedude on Feb 12, 2015 12:11:11 GMT -6
I agree, you can over coach it no doubt. The best coaches find a way to make it simple. However, the years when you have dudes that can just go and win playing base are the good years where weekends are easy. We didn't have the dudes this season so we had to be on point with our planning. We werent doing crazy stuff but I was going to have every single blitz drawn up to run for BPU, percentages for which blitzes they liked, every alignment they had shown to our formations, and which way the lined up most of the time, I'm going to watch every play of their defense of every game we have, I'm going to have concise scout reports, and we're going to hash through every play out of every formation to make sure we pack our game plan down tightly so that come monday we have a simple plan to hand the kids. To me, its not about changing stuff and coming up with new stuff, mostly getting a really good idea of what they're going to defend us with and throwing stuff out of the game plan to keep it simple.
If you got the dudes though, shoot. Line up, keep it simple, and ball.
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Post by fantom on Feb 12, 2015 12:30:25 GMT -6
We practice until about 7 on mon-tuesday since we have weights and film during the period and don't get to start until about 5, then we have to make sure all the kids get gone. Thursday we have fresh/jv games, and I'm at a 6a school in texas so we have 2 games(2 fresh. and 2 jv) and the second one usually doesnt end up starting until around 8. Then factor in travel, uploading sub varsity film to huddle, making sure kids get rides to get home, starting sub varsity wash, and then actually driving home it usually ends up midnight. If its a home game and we're running the ball a lot sometimes we might get home 10-11. Also, we do spend a lot of time waiting around for a couple kids parents' to come pick them up, but its a lower income school so we have to make sure they actually make it home. Do what you think that you need to do but I think you guys are nuts. 1. You start practice at 5 because you're watching film? Dude, you're watching too much film as a group. HUDL! 2. Are you the only guy on the staff? Do you really be at every subvarsity game? Does everybody really need to do subvarsity laundry and upload the tape? You all wait until the last kid leaves? We take turns. We each have a designated night. 3. Your whole staff meets for 12 hours on weekends? Again, that's what HUDL is for. I don't agree with the guys who don't have staff meetings at all on weekends but this is crazy.
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Post by olinedude on Feb 12, 2015 12:53:35 GMT -6
Well, i agree with you on some stuff, but its the HC's call not mine.
1. Monday we watch film, and jv practice is 345-430 ish, tuesday var lifts during jv practice, wednesday we go straight out so its earlier. But, our kids dont even get out of their last class period until 330 2. We split the staff (minus the coordinators) and each have either jv or freshman responsibilities but still have 2 jv teams and 2 fresh teams we have to be at. We do rotate the laundry but we help each other out and usually all pitch in. We do take turns waiting for the last guys to leave, which is why its earlier some nights. The hudl stuff is on me though since i actually know how to work it well. 3. We do meet as a staff for some stuff that could be done on hudl, no real argument there. But, it is easier to turn around and have a quick conversation with somebody in person than text.
If it were me we'd get everything done on saturday and not meet sunday, shorten practices a little bit, and make a few more things a little efficient, but overall its not too far off during the season of anywhere else that I've been or coached against.
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Post by 33coach on Feb 12, 2015 12:58:46 GMT -6
Monday - Thursday: Home by 7 Friday - Day off (we play saturdays) Saturday - Home Game Night: Home by 9ish Saturday - Away Game Night: Depends on Drive...
i keep it as strict as i can for home life balance
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