Worst trade film ever?

Call the other team and get their copy.

We have had some of the worst films ever in trades. Usually the bad teams too. I'm talking shots of the center and qb then follow the ball in the air so you can see nothing. Some that looked like and earth quake was happening. The old I think the cameras on when it's off and off when it's on, nice shots of the huddle breaking then guys getting off the ground after the play. Could go on and on. Wish I would have saved some.

I didn't know a camera could zoom out that far

Once drove halfway across the state Sunday night to exchange DVDs for first round playoff game (I didn't have HUDL at the time).

Their guy kept me waiting two hours.

When I got home neither DVD would work.

Our OL coach got them to email him the two games which he burned for me and brought over couple hours later.

Got done breaking down their Offense (only) at 5 AM.

Happy ending was we beat them 45-20, their first playoff loss before Regionals in several years, and they had a three-hour bus ride home.

I believe that every coach has a couple of bad stories about film exchange. Some opposition coaches are real jerks. I remember the days of 16mm film and projectors...traveling to exchange locations...getting half of a film or film from a prior year, chopped and edited.

These things make a case for your team to have a very solid base offense and defense with minimum hand signals and verbiage. You can go into a contest with little or no idea of what you'll see without a solid film and current roster.

I remember, more than once, that we were happy that we have on-field defensive adjustments, and the ability to audible, just because we didn't know what to expect.

HUDL makes life a lot easier.

I worked for a guy who said one of the schools he had been at had two cameras and one was to capture bad film for opponent. He was a stand up guy to me he said that when he was younger he would do anything he could to get an edge. I was shocked, partially because we had to beg to get a camera and someone to film every week and mostly because that was a major douchee move

This was filmed on an iPad I believe.

Some coaches in our conference are always complaining about not getting all 11 guys in the film. I guess this is what it looks like.

Having started coaching back in the day when nobody exchanged film (we couldn't afford 16 mm, we shot in 8 mm!), I got used to scouting in person, on paper, my first coaching job after I graduated college.
You guys who only started coaching after video became digital are spoiled rotten! LOL

I've seen it all in 43 years of coaching, sky shots, stadiums shots, crazy zoom shots, zoomed out "ants on a screen", zoomed in so tight that all you see are legs and shoulders, pervert shots (one of our guys used to shoot "down blouse" shots from the press box)…..I don't think that any of this is intentional. They grab some random kid or parent and just hand them a camera……….and they are trying to evaluate their kids from the same film.

We did have one guy in our league about 25 years ago, at the advent of VHS cassettes, who was notorious for editing out any play where his team scored or got scored upon on the copy he sent out. You'd get a film for a game that was 35-21 and never saw a touchdown scored!
We got to the point where we refused to exchange with him, just sent one of our own guys there with a video camera. We got pretty good at sneaking a camera into games, remembering how big the original VHS cameras were!

With everyone in the league now on Hudl, everyone does a full film exchange of every game. So if the home team cameraman misses a play (hey, we all do occasionally) the visiting team's film usually has it.

We used to get 2 full vhs tapes of each game from a certain opponent. They would start the camera at pregame warm ups and film every second until the end of the game. Between plays, timeouts, even the halftime band show. The film was actually pretty good, but having to cut through 3+ hours of tape for 30 minutes of action got tedious.

As long as we're trading horror stories, just to prove things were worse in the "good ol' (16 MM) days":

I was coaching at a D-II school.

Our third game we were going to play a MAC school coached by a guy who had been fired from a Big Ten head job for multiple recruiting violations.

They had played two games. The first film you would have thought they lost 35-0, the second 6-0.

Actually they had lost opener 28-35 and won second 43-6.

NONE of their scoring plays were on the film we got from them (him).

Man, yeah. I'm still relatively young at 37 but still remember the days of meeting someone halfway on Saturday morning to exchange VHS tapes, make copies for other coaches, etc. It sure sucked.

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We got this a few years ago. It didnt matter that the video was crooked or shaky, because the tripod was in the way most of the time.  The preparation of the team matched their game film.  It got ugly from the 2nd quarter on.

We got tired of these antics back in the 90s and decided to strike back at some of these guys sending us crappy video. We had a special guy that hung around as manager/mascot for years after he graduated and most of the sports teams kept him around, think Radio. We decided to let "radio" take one of our old cameras and film the game and send that as our trade film. Well that backfired, he was as good or better than our regular film guy. We had him film practice every day from then on.

This is a boss move