Watching Film In season

We bring Offensive starters in on Tuesday after practice to watch that days practice. Then we do the same on Wednesday with the defensive starters. And we have a ton of two way guys so most kids were staying both days, we but we always split the kids up into position groups and each position coach leads their own film. This makes it go much faster. But whichever side we want to watch that day, we'll begin practice with that side of the ball. This allows us to get film uploaded to HUDL soon enough to watch it that evening. The kids that watch film usually stayed an extra 15-20 minutes so it's really not terrible on them.

Before HUDL, we would watch film as a team(the guys who play) after practice Tues. and Wed. Now that we are on HUDL, we watch film of our opponent on Wed. after practice. Offensive line, offensive skill players, defense are in separate rooms.
Our kids will watch a ton of film on their own(every starter/backup is sent copies of all scout video) Defensive guys get the opponent's offensive cutups and kicking game.. One thing that helps us is that after the video is tagged, one of the defensive staff goes back through the video and puts notes right on the video. The kids are told, more or less, what to look for or what is a special key.

We watch film on Mondays and Thursdays before practice. We'll also watch other times before school or after practice.

Haven't seen it on here yet but I know of a fair amount of teams around here that watch film on Saturday morning and then Monday after school of the upcoming opponent.

We do not do that, as I do not believe in bringing kids in on the weekend to give them some time off and keep them fresher. I am the only teacher that coaches here so our practice time doesn't start until 4 to make sure all lay coaches can get there. It allows us time to watch film after school. We watch previous week's film on Monday for 20 (10 O, 10 D) and the upcoming opponent on Tuesday, again 10 O, 10 D. Like someone mentioned above I subscribe to the no more than 20 minutes at a time philosophy. I think it worked well for us.

I do film cut ups and playlists that I send out via hudl. Some kids watch them and some kids don't. Of course we'd like all our athletes to watch but it's just one battle I've chosen not to fight and hope those kids get it out of the time we have together.

We watch video Monday and Thursday. We will also watch Tuesday or Wednesday if need be. We want our players to watch on their own too. That is part of the deal with Hudl. Watch on your own and we will track it. My DC and I are very good about making short play lists that take a few minutes to watch. The excuse "I didn't have time" really doesn't fly since they all have iPads.

And they are 10 second clips. I can watch all the offensive plays from an opponents game while on the sh!tter

Coordinators watch Friday night's film and opp. scout films on Saturday/Sunday and insert comments as needed. On Monday we watch film, but only the plays we commented on. HATE, HATE, HATE throwing on film and watching it straight through. No better way to get a group of kids distracted/spacing off. We start w/ STs (usually about 5-6 plays), then go to Offense (10-15 plays), then Defense (10-15 plays). Takes about 15-20 minutes and we're done. Tell kids if they want to watch the game they all have Hudl. Can't understand for the life of me how some kids (about half of ours) don't watch the games AT ALL when they are all available any time they want. But I digress....

We only show opponent film if needed, usually only if they do something drastically different from what we've seen before (option, formation changes, etc.) or if there is something they do that we want to emphasize or take advantage of (carrying the ball loose for fumble opportunities, poor pass protection, QB who always scrambles, etc.).

We film every group/team practice session. I watch these every night and if there is something I find that needs addressing, basically we're screwing up the same things over and over, we'll watch film the next day before practice.

Not saying it's wrong or right, but we limit the amount of tape we watch. I've heard other successful coaches swear their success is due to them watching more film. To each his own.

True enough coach but we don't film practices. As my older mentor used to say, "Film don't lie".

Take about 15-20 mins before to do offense and/or take 15-20 after practice to do defense. Find another day to drill ST and add/remove based on need.

Also, we make our kids watch films on certain days during WT class whenever we have them lift in the mornings. School I used to be at was on block schedule so certain days had our WT class RIGHT after lunch which did not end well for lifting days.

One of the solutions I am coming up with is arranging film on Mondays during lunch hours. I usually have that time free.

Anybody else do this?

I will say that you need to be careful with having kids watch opponent film. They are horrible judges of another team on film. They usually underestimate an opponent badly or get really intimidated by another teams stud, but rarely get a good read on an opponent themselves.

I think the on the field stuff is the real key to prepping for an opponent.

We meet as Coaches on Sunday from 2pm-3pm. Players then come in at 3pm and we watch previous game film and film of the next opponent with them until about 5pm. Thats it. We spend about an hour and a half on our game film and watch most of it. We spend about thirty minutes on the next opponent to show them primary alignments and favorite plays. Other than that we remind them to watch hudl on their own and watch any position coach cutups and notes we have for them on there.

So do you have all of your players the last period? I've heard of schools doing this, but never been at one. Is this labeled a football class? Does it just count as a typical PE credit for the student? I assume they signup for the class in the spring, what if a player quits mid-summer, is he removed from the class? I assume you wouldn't want regular students/players that quick sitting in on film.

It counts as an elective class. We do not have PE in the high school where I am. 

In the fall - it is explained to parents that if they want to be in the class they will lift and watch film, regardless of whether or not they play football.

Once football season over, it basically turns into a weight lifting class - you don't lift, you're looking for another elective. 

Ours takes care of itself and we are a little different in some respects. We have 30 out of 33 eligible males in the high school playing football. So there's basically nobody who doesn't. The old school I was at, if you quit or didn't play football, you were expected to participate fully in all activities or you would be removed from the class.