The next day after the game.

If you feel the rule is important on one end of the spectrum, why does the other end not matter?

Maybe it's a stupid "rule"?

Dude, what is your problem?

The rule is just to tell the kids that game is over and move on to the next. Turn the page. Flush the last game. Don't let yesterday's good or bad ruin tomorrow. Your past is not your future. The past is the past. Insert whatever metaphor or cliche you want. It is a freaking outstanding rule for athletics and in life.

Don't freaking meet on Saturdays and do what you want. As for us, we are going to kick ass on Friday, get up and eat chick-fil-a and krispy kreme, and then kick ass again next Friday.

Some teams around here do it, some don't. I think it's just what you're used to. We only tried it one year (keeping up with the Jones more than anything) I hated personally because I don't sleep right after games so I would be up watching film at 3:00AM and then getting up at 6:00AM to get ready for the new Sat schedule. We didn't do anything drastic, but we would have staff meeting at 7:30AM, kids for film at 9:00AM and then stretch and run them around 10:30. Fortunately, for me, we started 0-4 that year after several very successful seasons so our HC said screw this and we went back to "normal." We won five of the next six and made the play-offs. (We also moved some personnel around and got our best athletes the ball more but that's another story) I don't think Saturday had anything to do with it but it helped when we were grasping at straws.
Bottom line, do it if you want to, or don't. It's not a make or break deal.

I don't think so. I have been apart of 2 different successful teams that used this same mindset. Saturday "wraps up" everything to do with Jefferson high. On Monday, we start fresh on Lincoln.

Have you coached anywhere during that decade?

Perhaps I have you confused with someone else?

And, it was 8 years ago. That school has changed principals 4 times since then and dropped 80 kids in enrollment in a decade. (From 240 to 160.) They are talking about dropping to 8 man football after next season due to lack of kids. Perhaps had it remained steady, I would still be there. As it is, I am in a job now where I make $20k more a year while working considerably less and I don't have to deal with any a-hole kids or their parents.

This may be a silly question, but for those of you who say "some schools around us do, some schools don't", do you simply ask them about Saturday practices? Is this something that comes up in conversations at clinics? Reason I ask is I obviously know our program currently does not meet on Saturdays. I literally couldn't tell you if the 9 teams on our schedule do or don't.

Just with talking with the coaches. I don't bring it up. It will sometimes just come up. Say we are playing XYZ. On Sunday the coach texts me and ask where they need to park the bus next Friday. I text back "how many buses?". He then texts me back at 5:30 and says, "Sorry for the late text. We just got done with practice. We are bringing two buses."

So I now know they practice on Sunday. Or sometimes we just talk about it. In general, I (we) usually have pretty good relationships with each other and actually talk to each other. And coaches love to brag how much they grind. Ha

I do understand this. But I have been where a lot of games where 2-3 hours away and we would still get up early and come. Worked for us. Our general starting time was 9am. There are times we would back that up to 10am. There are also times we would move that up to even 7am due to a Bama game that started at 11am.

In my humble opinion sports ultimately should be about having fun/recreation. You play sports to have fun, to get away from life for a bit; if I want to be miserable and stressed, that's what a job is for 😄. I can respect what silkyice and his folks did/do, if it was not a detriment and it helped, more power to them. However, if I were in your shoes (with the travel time), I would be more inclined to not have early saturday mornings, because to me, that could start to encroach on sports being about having fun/recreation. And, I absolutely agree about sundays being for family, religion, and also just "chilling out"/"recharging batteries"

School was Tuscaloosa Academy. They all went to the game or worked the game, etc.

I can see that, definitely something for me to think about

This is one of the main points I was driving at. There are 'X' hours of work that are going to be put in for the week, I would rather put those hours in as soon as I can and just be able to move on- ergo Saturday morning. 


LIke I tell my kids, work first and play later. I would hate to wait until Sunday to get done what I can get done now, but I'm also the type to hang up all my clothes for the next week on Saturday morning. You never know what may come up, so get the work done first.  

Some do it and are successful.  Some don't and are successful.
There are lots of ways to structure your practice and preparation time--you do what fits your individual situation and gets you ready to play.
I haven't done the Saturday thing in over 25 years.  The area I coach in now has 4 major universities within a fairly short drive and a couple more that aren't but a few hours away.  The fan bases are loyal.  Many games are played at noon.  Kids and their families are going to want to go.  That's going to be an issue.
Others have pointed out the other problems with some missing on Saturday.  How are you going to handle that?
My thing is that we take up so much of their time now in the offseason as well as inseason, that they need some family time and some time away from us.  We don't touch their weekends.  We still have plenty of time to get prepared.
We meet during the week.  We watch film during the week.  We've had times where we keep them longer on Monday with film in exchange for the Saturdays.