What are your in season weekends like?

I'll add that I've coached for 5 programs under 9 different HCs in a 21-year span. I've never worked for a coach that had us meet both Saturday and Sundays. However, I did work for one who set the meeting times for Saturday afternoon and if we were done by 8 p.m. or so, that was considered short! I did also work for another who set the meeting times for 5 p.m. Sunday evening and sometimes it felt like I wasn't going to make first hour class on Monday on time! I kid...kind of...

I am the HC and DC. I generally complete stats for O and D after the game Friday while uniforms are washing. I don’t sleep much Friday night. I get up early Saturday and break down our film from Friday and our opponents film for the next week. This generally takes me until early afternoon and I try to spend time with my family Saturday afternoon. I am exchanging texts with our staff as I see fit. But generally try to lay off of that if possible. Our coaches have Saturday off. But I do expect them to have graded their position when they come to our meetings Sunday. Many of them watch some opposition film on their own. But that’s up to them. Sunday I go to church with my fam and then go to school. Our O staff meets from 1 until 4 or so. D staff comes in at 5 and meets until 8 or 9. I try to get there early and get th practice field mowed so I don’t have to do that Monday. After meetings finish up I go home and do the next day’s practice schedule and script and generally get in the bed about 11. I’m very much a creature of habit and very routine oriented. So this doesn’t vary much. And when something like a family get together changes my routine it tears my nerves up

There are zero reasons in this day and age to meet on the weekends

Friday - After the game, break down field get laundry started. Go home have a bourbon if we won, have multiple if we lost.

Saturday - On our own, grade players from the game, start breaking down next weeks opponent. Text through out the day with fellow coaches (I am an early riser, sleeping in for me is 6 a.m. so I usually have this done by 9 or 10) spend the day with the family. Finish laundry, we have a rotation so no one coach is doing it every weekend.

Sunday - meet as a staff after church, go over grades, injury report, talk as a staff about what needs to be the focus of the week. Break out into Defense and offense gameplan until 4. Players come in for meetings and film. Home by 6 at the latest

I am the HC and OC. We DO NOT meet as a staff on the weekend. I do the stats from Friday on Saturday morning, and that's the only thing I do on Saturday. On Sunday, I spend most of the day reviewing the previous game and planning for the next. I do take a lunch break and my sons and I go to Moe's. Everyone works independently from home. Each coach is required to submit a report on their position to the DC or myself by Sunday afternoon. The OL coach and I talk on Sunday afternoon. All game plan info is distributed via google drive. The defensive coaches talk throughout the day, as needed. The DC and I talk on Sunday evening. Been doing it this way for 10 years. We've won over 70% of our games, and I've only had one coach leave my staff, and that was because he took an admin job.

HS Program 1
Saturdays: Off
Sundays: Meet 6-8 or 9
I coached the freshman team which worked almost as an autonomous unit during the regular season, so we met for about an hour as a full staff to recap the previous week and take care of any general housekeeping and then an hour as a freshman staff to go over the gameplan for the week.

I then spent 4 years in college ball. At best 12 hour days both Saturday and Sunday.

HS Program 2
Saturdays: started out with a lift and film session Saturday mornings from 7-10. We did that for about 3 weeks and then we scrapped it. Between my 90 minute commute and wanting to limit COVID close contacts, our HC decided we weren't getting enough out of those days to make it worth it.
Sundays: Google Meet from 7-8:30 or so. Quick full staff get together, then the rest of the meeting was mostly for defense, since I was the only assistant coach on the offensive side of the ball.

HS Program 3
Saturdays: Nothing scheduled, but we each have film breakdown responsibilities to have done by the staff meeting on Sunday. I try to get as much done as possible before my wife wakes up.
Sundays: Staff meeting at 7. These meetings were in person for the first 5 weeks and then we moved them to Google Meet. For the first 45 minutes or so, we meet as a whole staff, then we split O/D. Defense is usually done in 10 minutes after we split. Last year, our OL coach would fight our HC on everything and we would sometimes stay as an offensive staff for over an hour without accomplishing anything. Luckily, that OL coach has gone on to waste another coaching staff's time, so I'm hopeful our meetings will be much quicker this year.

When I am in charge, I'd like to eliminate weekend meetings altogether. I think as long as everyone can get their share of breakdowns and gameplanning done when they have time, we don't need to waste anyone's time with a meeting that could've been an email. I can call anybody that I need to talk to at length and I can send messages to the whole staff to discuss housekeeping stuff. I love football and it's a huge part of my life, but it is not my life. I don't think it's fair to my wife and future kids to be at work 12+ hours a day M-F and then spend the whole weekend working on top of that. If not having weekend meetings will keep me from ever winning anything, at least I can say I did my best as a husband and father.

After a Friday game (Not a given since we always had a couple Thursday and/or Saturday games):

Saturday- JV game then coaches watch film on their own. Coordinators put together tentative game plans.

Sunday: Staff meeting at 5. Coaches discuss whatever- personnel, program matters, upcoming events, whatever- then watch Friday's game as a group. Next we'll watch some film of the upcoming opponent. After that coordinators will present tentative game plans and maybe add some tweaks. The last couple of years defensively that was often, "We ain't changing anything". If it went later than 8 that usually meant that we got off on a tangent BSing or we didn't have any answers and were about to get our a$$es kicked.

Used to work Saturday and Sunday all day breaking down tendenies and then developing the plan.

However, I think most teams you play would be willing to do an early film exchange, like a couple weeks prior to your game week so you can both get a head start and not have to deal with the tedious tasks during the weekends and can actually work on what matters and spend time with family.

If they don't want to do an early film exchange, you can probably get their film from other avenues.

You can divide the work amongst your staff and since it's not as high stakes and you're not dealing with the post game day issues, clearer heads are often plugging in the data Monday-Thursday a couple of weeks before you actually play.

So for example,
Opponent 1- You can only exchange scrimmage film so nothing you can do about that.
Opponent 2- You exchange scrimmage film during week 1 and break that down during the game 1 week.
Opponent 3- You breakdown their scrimmage during game 1 week and 1st game during game 2 week.

And so on and so forth.

Agreed. Problem is that we have more non-league games than league games because our leagues here in Southern California have gotten so small because you know, everyone needs to get a trophy. 

As a HC, we met as a staff on Saturdays from 8 or 9 (I honestly can't remember- and it was fluid in case someone had something going on) until noon. That was it. We watched our film, and highlights of the upcoming opponent. We talked about what we wanted to do, what we thought we'd see and come to a bit of a consensus on what was going to happen. I'd ask if they thought we needed to work on anything in particular, they made suggestions and we left. Me and the DC (a former HC) would communicate via text the rest of the weekend on ideas, but that was the extent of football for us over the weekend.

I've been on staffs that brought kids in on Saturdays and it was just a giant waste of time. I hated it. I vowed before I became HC I'd never do that and I didn't.

Friday night post game- have a drink and watch the film. Give my wife an idea of the amount of cakes she has to make for the OL. Cake= dude planted on his shoulder blades.
Sat AM while everyone is sleeping-Grade OL and TEs. Two Teens at home and a wife that loves to sleep in. no missed "Family time"
Sat PM do what ever my wife wants to do.
Sunday AM Look at opponent- Everyone is asleep.
Sunday Staff meeting 1:00 to 5:00. HC's wife makes us lunch. No one is late! About an hour talking about previous game while eating. We look at how the opponent has played us in the past. We try to find opponent lining up against anything close to what we run. (21 personal with a real TE not a TE that is really a FB)

100% agree. I get into it with some guys now because whenever someone proposes we do something new (often busy work) my first question is how does this equate to more winning on Fridays? Usually it won't because we were in the semifinals last year. Now I get you can always do things to get better, but I'm not loading my weekends with more chit if it isn't going to get us over that semi-final hump.

We've done it a few ways

School 1 we would split Hudl entries between position coaches on Saturday then meet for like 6 hours on Sundays, 2 of which were film and lift with the players - highly successful program with most kids living close to school. Staff would meet briefly to go over any pressing stuff then we'd split to O and D for the rest of the time. Watch previous game, some scout film, then gameplan and draw all of the week's scout cards. I didn't think we needed to meet for as long as we did but we were successful so hard to argue it.

School 2 we met Sunday nights from about 7 to 8:30 - watched most of the previous game as a full staff then split O/D. I was coaching OL and the HC would usually already have his gameplan pretty much together. He'd go over it with the staff and we'd be done. D would stay later a lot of the time getting their scout cards together. I liked the brevity of the meetings, but hated having them Sunday night. The HC did a ton of work (breakdown all the film, have good suggestions for DC) and probably could've delegated some of it.

School 3 no planned meetings, offense communicated via text and phone if needed. We'd split Hudl work up between 2-3 different offensive coaches and try to have it done by Sunday afternoon. Depending on the week I may do my breakdowns and gameplanning anywhere between Friday night and Sunday during the first round of NFL games. I don't think the D met at all, probably needed more meeting time here.

Currently I'm trying to figure out what works best with the other coaches on my side of the ball. My expectation is to spend Saturday doing film/breakdowns/entry and try to have a short meeting Sunday night before splitting up. We can do scout cards and stuff independently, I don't think that needs to be done at school.

I don't know about rsmith but to me meeting at 5 AM after a night game is a non-starter.