How does your team spend the Kickoff afternoon?

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Well, I'm now within a week of my third Kickoff. Both times before, I've been tied up doing other things (either work or getting on an airplane). This year, however, I'm going to do it right and be productive.

That said, how do you and your team spend the afternoon after Kickoff? Read the manual? Build the field? Plan? Sleep?

MOE will have the full team attend to watch the kickoff, and take notes during it. After a pizza lunch, we will list what was said during the game description, not what we "heard". We will replay the game description part of the kickoff repeatedly until we capture every fact given. Once all the facts are listed, we then identify the items that are important to play the game, and rank them. We do no "robot" brainstorming on the first day; that will begin on Sunday, after people have time away to think about it. Understand the game and have a concept about what is important, then begin your brainstorming.

Concurrent to watching the kickoff, we have a small group attend a satellite kickoff to pick up our KOP, and also to get a look at the field constructed there. This group is made up mainly of Parentz/Boosterz of the Miracle Workerz. This group (non-mentors) will return after the kickoff and immediately start to build the field elements (not a "full-size" field -- we do not have enough space).

Later in the afternoon/evening, after we adjourn our meeting, a few veteran students and mentors will inventory the KOP and put it away on our shelves, ready for use.