What are your in season weekends like?

See ya, coach! 😄

That would be one beat to {censored} HC...

In reality though, you can't take a person seriously after an episode like that. Tip #136 on head coaching- never threaten something and fail to follow through with it.

I hear you on the 5 am wake up call. I think 8 am would suffice. 

I've been on staffs that met for a long time on both Saturday and Sunday. This was in a days of VHS/DVD's. Once everything went web based it made it a lot easier. 

This last season, half of the staff (including myself) came in at 8 am to work with the kids for 2 hours. We would stretch, do a light lift, and a light run. We then would watch a 20-30 play cut up of the previous night. Of course we would talk about any pressing issues. Friday nights are emotional and a lot happen. I think it's good to have immediate feedback after a good night's rest..... I should also add that our games are all relatively local and no more than 20 mile drives since Los Angeles County has such a dense population so 8 am isn't wild. We also usually drink some cold ones at a watering hole after Friday night as a staff. 

After the kids leave so does the staff and we each do our Hudl column work on our own...  This is where having film early helps. The more film we have early on, the less we need to chart on Saturday. We meet again on Sunday afternoon for no more than 2 hours. The Sunday meeting allows coordinators to discuss the plan with the coaches and for us to also have a quick climate check before we head into the week. 

I don't know if I'd mind it as much if my job was just football but I could see getting burned out on that as well.

I didn't add we would also meet at 5ams on Monday before school. I had 4 preps that year (one was AP) and was struggling to get all my chit done for the classroom because I also had a newborn at the time.

Same for about 8 years:
Saturday- youth football games, college games of alumni, or hit a local event in the community. And watch film
Sunday morning coaches meet at 8:00am- personal, special teams, special stuff for the week
Usually by 9:00 we break into O and D groups. Our D guys run their own ship. O is predicated on getting D to do something they don't like to do...special plays, look for weak links, talk through installs.
We are done by 11:00 to get to church with families.
Coordinators take care of call sheets and game plans that will be given to kids on Monday before the JV game.

You can meet all weekend, but at the end of the week the team with the best players is probably going to win.

I agree, but it's more about the kids preparation rather than ours. We can spend All day Saturday and Sunday prepping for 24 hrs in that two day span. If our kids are not focused and prep on their own as well, then that close game will go the whoever did, or whoever just made more plays that night. 

"Woody always said he wasn't as smart as the next guy, but he'd sure out work whoever was the smartest guy. He lived by that creed. We spent a lot more time than other teams on planning and preparation, and I'm not sure it was all necessary. We spent a huge amount of time planning contingencies. Instead of sitting around for hours at a time and discussing plays, which we did, we could have been more resolute.

"We were always looking for that special edge, and sometimes we'd find it, and sometimes we didn't. We'd waste a lot of time looking for that mysterious 'edge' before we settled down to the week's game plan."

Joe Bugel, who coached the legendary Hogs for the great Joe Gibbs, told me and Nick Saban the same thing in a private clinic. For more information call me at 555-3825. 

Belichick kept calling. 

No apologies needed. Just looking out for a guy I respect.

Ohio coach here. This is still the way in much of Ohio. Woody’s presence is still felt today.

When I first started out that staff would have marathon meetings on Sundays like 12+ hours. I was single and didn't care at the time so wasn't a big deal. I would say about 2 hours of that was actual football time and think some of the other coaches just wanted to get out of the house. I will say I did learn a ton of football back then, not sure it was from the meetings or just paying attention and trying to make my self better. This was also back in the days of VHS and in person film exchanges so that did make things take a bit longer.

After I left there in '05 and started with the only other HC I have worked for we did meet on weekends to start but again this was mimi-DV and dvd days so film was still more based at the football office. We also ran the same O and basically the same D till our last team in '21. Knowing those systems inside and out made game planning a lot easier, we didn't necessarily game plan for other teams ourselves but became more of what are they going to do vs us (if that makes sense).

I did learn a TON of football in meetings, hand drawing scout cards and packets was invaluable to me as a young guy. But now not so much. Give me the film and let me see what they are doing, not to sound arrogant but there isn't much I haven't seen and can't ID quickly on film as many veteran coaches probably can too. And finally as football has become much more generic over the years scheme wise it becomes more of who are their dudes and how do they use them over how do they line up.