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Jan 13, 2007 22:19:31 GMT -6
Post by hsrose on Jan 13, 2007 22:19:31 GMT -6
When you go to freeplay they have their music in CD-type arrangements. You can purchase the CD or download the songs.
The collections I would start with include: Sports Extreme Vol 1 and 2 Sports Highlights Vol 1 and 2 Sports Themes Vol 1 Motivational Vol 1 and 2 Hot Guitar Rock Vol 1 and 2 Electro-Rock Overdrive 1, 2, 3 and 4 Victory Grand
These average 10 songs per collection, plus each usually has 3 lengths. So, you are looking at probably 130-150 songs.
These are in .mp3 and .acc. I'm a Mac guy so everything goes into iTunes (which works well on PC's as well)
Casey
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Music
Jan 13, 2007 17:05:17 GMT -6
Post by hsrose on Jan 13, 2007 17:05:17 GMT -6
I get all my music from FreePlay Music. www.freeplaymusic.com/Lots of variety, various lengths, pretty much anything you can want. I find that instrumentals work better for the highlights rather than vocals. I find that the vocals detract from the story the video tells. Casey
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Post by hsrose on Nov 24, 2007 23:58:41 GMT -6
California, North Coast Section (NCS)
1st day of practice 08/20 Scrimmage 08/31 1st game 09/07 Game 10 11/10 Playoffs 11/17 NCS Championships 12/1 & 12/8 (?) State championship 12/15 (BCS-type selection, not determined by playoffs)
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Post by hsrose on Nov 30, 2007 8:57:04 GMT -6
What kind of thinking/effort/process goes into the playcalling when running no-huddle warp-speed? Are the playcalls more lookups (if it's 3rd and 5 we call 1 of these 4 plays) or it more of a gut feeling? What are the communications from the press box if you are running this for speed?
Casey IHS Vikings
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Post by hsrose on Apr 19, 2007 12:19:24 GMT -6
We're currently planning for spring practice and the summer workouts, going through the roster, who's lifting, who's playing other sports, all that good stuff. HC gets a call yesterday from the mother of our "stud" LB/FB (very real stud as a freshmen, but missed soph with a blown knee, courtesy of baseball, yet to be proven a stud at the JV/varsity level) saying that he will be playing on a traveling baseball team and will only have "5-6 days" all summer where he can participate in the football program. The kid is a good kid, no problems, no school issues, etc.
If this team is what I think it is, the HC of the baseball team is also the HC of the school varsity baseball team, and is the HC of the freshmen football team. Last year we missed 2 players from our opening football scrimmage because they were at a baseball tournament in LA. He is also the ex-father-in-law of the (new) HC of the football team. Makes the relationship between the HC and the coach a bit strange. I wouldn’t want to be in that rowboat.
Normally I would say "Have fun, enjoy the experience, glad you made the decision", honestly tell the kid “good luck”, and start planning on having a different FB. The HC feels the same way. But, this baseball thing has not yet come to pass.
The Problem: I can see a situation where the stud plays baseball and makes a cursory effort with the football workouts. He then shows up in the double-days in August. I know that even after missing the summer workouts he will be better than any other FB (and probably every other LB) we currently have in front of us. So the decision the HC will have to make is to keep and/or play this guy. From a football standpoint, I could really use a 6’2”, 210 lb. FB in my option offense/playing LB on defense. From a team standpoint, he won’t be there with everyone else and won’t know what is going on, how do we get everyone to buy in if obvious exceptions are made, etc.
Comments, suggestions? What have you done in this situation in the past?
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Post by hsrose on May 18, 2007 8:03:41 GMT -6
I like the divide and conquer ideas, I’ve always done that in the past. My problem is that I HATE to have players standing around, just drives me nuts as I view that as a lack of organization and planning by me.
One problem is that the only discriminator I have right now is the attendance at the weight room the past couple of months. Even so, the baseball players were kept out of the weight room by the baseball coaches so a set of good athletes haven’t been on the weights at all. How much time would you allocate to “diamond mining” as opposed to putting in the offense and defense?
How do you make the first assignments - go with who you know and then fill in with the rest?
Our first practice will be a combine/testing as it is on Friday and is the only practice of the week. We haven’t had this in the past. Would you guys use standard tests (40, lateral agility, shuffle agility, dots, etc.) for all players so that everyone is measured on a common basis, or would you have the position coaches take their players, run them through whatever drills, and try to see the diamonds? I always did the standard tests as that provided a basis for comparing the players.
Other issue is a lack of QB’s. We’ve got a varsity starter (2nd strongest on the team, hit the weights every day, on the baseball team but didn’t play), a hesitant backup (a good athlete and backup last year, but does not want to be qb), and a sophomore that was marginal. Regardless of what approach I take I’ll have to find several other QB’s.
I guess this is a good problem to have. There has already been a couple of transfers that showed up during the year that look good. Got some prospects so it will all work out well. Just getting there will be the challenge.
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Post by hsrose on May 17, 2007 13:15:50 GMT -6
We're preparing to start spring ball next Friday. 10 days of no-pads practice. High school of 2,000 students.
We've been having players sign-up with the head coach using cards. So far we have 135 names and growing. This is for the (next year) So-Jr-Sr classes. We've got more Sr's signed up than we had on the whole varsity last year. I'm sure that most of those players will self-cut, but even if we lose 50 we're still looking at 80+ which is where we started last year. I'm also sure that most of those players are 4'10" and weigh 125.
How do you organize that mass of players? We're just not used to those numbers. We've got a new HC and have a mixed staff of 9 coaches. I'm focused on the offense (OC) so I know that I'll have 100 receivers to try and do something with.
My offensive objectives are to put in 4 run plays, over 4 formations (2 plays per formation, each play from 2 formations) plus 5-step and 3-step passing (3 combo's each).
How do you run drills, offense, etc. when you have that many players? Just go with the best and forget the rest?
Casey IHS Vikings
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Post by hsrose on Sept 29, 2006 8:30:35 GMT -6
We scouted a team in our league last Saturday night. The JV lost 35-0, the varsity lost 31-13. Their bus ride home was about 2.5 hrs. on the yellow school bus.
Talked with one of the moms who said that the coaches made the ride home silent - no talking, no cell phones, no iPods. Just quiet.
I can see that, but I also know that on the JV, the coaches told the juniors Tuesday that they would not play on Saturday, only the soph's would play. Lot of Jr. parents heard this and didn't go to the game. The son of the mom is a Jr. and was told he was not going to play. No reason given, just Jr's not going to play. He is a NT. He got in the game in Q4 as an OL, a position he has never practiced and has no idea what to do other than hit. He said he didn't know if he did well or not because the coaches were yelling at everyone the whole game.
The varsity has some good runners, as long as it's to the right, but the QB's can't throw. Their defense held for the 1st half and then folded. The opponent ran no huddle very well, they put a lot of pressure on the D and they cracked. As a team, they were not prepared for their opponent. I'm not sure if that team was as good as everyone says, or that the team I scouted was just not coached well for that week. We got our heads handed to us the night before and after reviewing the film, most of what we saw was lack preparation by us, the coaches. That loss is on us, not the players.
While I can see a silent ride if the players didn't play well, I really have a hard time taking it out on the players when they got beat by bigger/better/faster, or coaches didn't seem to do their part. It's a hard call right after a game, but I think the coaches know. We knew when we were walking off the field that it was us that had screwed up, not the players.
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Post by hsrose on Jan 12, 2007 14:54:14 GMT -6
We put together a couple of CD's based on iTunes collections. I don't have the artist/album but most of these are recognizable.
Album Name Weightroom Workout 01 All She Ever Wants Is More Weightroom Workout 01 Bad To The Bone Weightroom Workout 01 Born To Be Wild Weightroom Workout 01 Chili Stain Weightroom Workout 01 Frankenstein Weightroom Workout 01 Got Me Under Pressure Weightroom Workout 01 Hair Of The Dog Weightroom Workout 01 Kids Wanna Rock Weightroom Workout 01 La Grange Weightroom Workout 01 Motor City Madhouse Weightroom Workout 01 Never Been Any Reason Weightroom Workout 01 Raise A Little Hell Weightroom Workout 01 Sweet Emotion Weightroom Workout 01 Takin' Care Of Business Weightroom Workout 01 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades Weightroom Workout 01 Tusk Weightroom Workout 01 Whoomp! There It Is Weightroom Workout 01 Wild Child Weightroom Workout 01 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Weightroom Workout 02 1985 Weightroom Workout 02 Angel's Eye Weightroom Workout 02 Born to Boogie Weightroom Workout 02 Brain Damage Weightroom Workout 02 Crazy Train Weightroom Workout 02 Grunge Garage Weightroom Workout 02 Heading Out To The Highway Weightroom Workout 02 Hey Tonight Weightroom Workout 02 Highway Star Weightroom Workout 02 Lipstick and Leather Weightroom Workout 02 Mony Mony Weightroom Workout 02 Shout Weightroom Workout 02 Smokin' Weightroom Workout 02 Smooth Criminal Weightroom Workout 02 The Bug Weightroom Workout 02 Thunderstruck Weightroom Workout 02 Twist and Shout Weightroom Workout 02 Unbelievable Weightroom Workout 02 Wasp Sting
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Post by hsrose on Oct 25, 2006 7:15:59 GMT -6
Ok, let's talk highlights. I have a different approach to the highlight videos I produce each season. For music I tend to instrumentals as I find that vocals tell a story themselves, a story that will probably not match up with what is on the screen. I feel that it also diverts attention to the song - we use the song because it means something to us in some way, or is something that we are comfortable with - instead of the video/players on the screen. I want the focus to be on the screen, but with some audio "filler material" going on to keep that part of the brain busy. I get a lot of my music from www.freeplaymusic.com because our highlights are not for sale, non-profit, non-commercial use, distribution only to our team which does not violate their use license. They have a lot of royalty-free (within their license) music in a wide variety of styles. Clips go from 10-30 seconds to 5 minutes. I will generally budget about 2 min. for each in-season, normal game, and 3-4 minutes for playoffs or championship games. Their music fits this requirement. In my opinion the story is what is on the screen, not the music. If it is a win I will use something upbeat and lively, a loss is heavy and oppressive. I rarely use any commercial music as everyone is familiar with it and tracks on that rather than the video. Now, having said all that, I do occasionally use a commercial song when it absolutely matches the video, or is for the opening/closing credits, a funny segment (guys getting knocked on their rears, fumbles, strange plays, etc.), and once for the senior introductions.
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Post by hsrose on Mar 18, 2007 0:13:49 GMT -6
Any ideas on why it doesn't appear more at the higher levels? Level of play, players, coaching?
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Post by hsrose on Nov 20, 2006 11:23:02 GMT -6
How do you go about determining numbers, sizes, and quantities? Assuming you can't purchase 99 jerseys (1-99), how do you go about picking the numbers and overall quantity? We typically keep 30-34 players on varsity, with a total of 44 jerseys for new players at playoff.
How long do you plan on keeping the jerseys as this plays into replacing them over time. One school I know of goes less expensive as they plan on replacing (moving them to the JV's and then to FR.) them every 2 years and don't expect to keep the same style for very long or for the jerseys to last long.
Also, do you allow the Sr's to purchase/keep their jerseys?
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Post by hsrose on Jan 10, 2008 8:49:13 GMT -6
Last year we had 2 players get scholarships to D1 schools - Utah St. and Northern Arizona. First time that our school ever had a player go directly to a 4-year school. We didn't have anyone like that this season.
One of the teams we played in our league this year has their QB/DB verbally committing to Fresno St., and an OL to Montana. There will probably be a couple more from that team. Haven't heard any others yet.
Where are your players going?
Casey IHS Vikings
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Post by hsrose on Sept 19, 2007 7:39:19 GMT -6
Concerns - Can the opposing team monitor the data stream and tell the ref's that Johnny needs to be taken out because of a big hit? Would there be an "impartial 3rd party" medical staff that would monitor the hits and check guys in and out? Kind of extreme and doubt it would happen. But something similar happened in a youth game I coached where one of my players was slow getting up, the opposing coaches started screaming that he was hurt, and he had to come out to be checked by the EMT.
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Post by hsrose on Feb 19, 2007 17:43:18 GMT -6
Ok, here is my sad, but true, tale. I got into coaching 5 seasons ago because the coaches on my son's team were extremely bad and were not asked back. I applied to be a coach and the league gave me the HC position. I coached my son for 1 year. He was one of the biggest, most talented kids on the team. Played him at blocking back (single wing). I was harder on him than the other kids, mostly from fear of parents taking him, and me, apart for favoritism.
He moves on, I coach youth for 2 more years, get a position at the HS varsity where I've coached the past 2 years. He comes to the HS, plays frosh and then JV. Not in my area, all is well. Next season he will be a Jr. and as part of a new HC selection process I get promoted to OC. He's the QB. Now I'm in the position of controlling the offense that my son will be running. Not my plan - I was going to ask to go down to JV so I would not have this situation.
So, going into this season I'm really worried about how to approach this. I'm going to try my best to be as even-handed as possible, but we run the option which is QB heavy. I hope this works out the next 2 years.
So, I have no great words of advice for anyone on how to handle this situation. I'll probably be watching this thread for more bits of advice.
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Post by hsrose on May 2, 2007 13:31:29 GMT -6
We start on 05/25 with combine/testing. Last season we had 90 players in grades 9-10-11 start spring ball which was a lot. This season we have 134 signed up. We'll see if they all show and how many can stay.
We get 10 days of practice and then it's pretty much wide open after graduation.
Casey IHS Vikings
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Post by hsrose on Aug 24, 2006 9:30:21 GMT -6
JD,
WRT: iDVD/DVD SP
iDVD is much simpler and easier to use. It connects directly with iMovie and is certainly very operable. However the simplicity comes at the cost of variability.
First premise is that iDVD and DVDSP are used to create DVD’s directly, or files that can be burned to DVD. They are not intended to generate the video streams on the DVD, the content. You need to use iMovie or some other video editor to generate the content. I generated 48 different DVD projects last year, and burned just over 400 copies.
Suppose that I need to have to produce A) a straight game DVD, and B) game cutups/highlights. For A, iMovie->iDVD works just fine. I put the clips in the iMovie viewing pane, take out what I don't need, trim clips, remove the sound, and send it to iDVD. That gives me an iDVD project with a button/link to the iMovie video files. I change the look & feel, titles, check it, save it, and burn it to a .img file. Then use the Disk Utility to burn that .img file to 1/more DVD's. Very simple, very quick, very easy.
Saving the DVD as an image file (.img on the Mac) means that I can move the file to other computers or burn to a DVD without going back into the video/DVD editing software. Once I am satisfied with the .img/DVD, I can delete the project and free up hard drive space.
For B (or any other product that has variability), iMovie-iDVD ain't so good. In a game I will have clips that may go into multiple categories - a run may be a trick play that scored. A pass interception may be a score, things like that. If I do this with iMovie I have to create separate .dv files and then import these .dv files into iDVD. Not a major issue, but somewhat clunky. To do this in DVDSP, I would copy the clips (from TDVideo in my case, having done the search and selection in TDVideo) into DVDSP. I would then create tracks (1 for offense, 1 for defense, 1 for special teams, 1 for passing, 1 for rushing, etc.) and add the clips to the proper tracks. In this way the clip is available for me to copy to multiple tracks without having to create separate .dv files. I have greater control over the DVD navigation and operations, as well as the video configuration (not the clips themselves, but where they go when). DVDSP has a much higher learning curve than iDVD.
iDVD is probably suitable for most of what you want to do. I use both.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 24, 2006 7:42:29 GMT -6
I've been very satisfied with TDVideo. The author has even incorporated a couple of my suggestions.
If we were a bigger and/or more advanced (video wise) program we would probably consider one of the bigger video editing packages. We haven't even really scratched the surface with what TDVideo can do for us, much less the high-end packages. I mean even with the basic reports that is so much more than the coaches had before that they are extremely happy. We are lucky to have a single press-box high-angle camera, much less end-zone or sideline angles. My film crew last season was 2 sophomores - 1 would do our game, 1 would hit the scout game - who did just a heckava job, but that was all I had.
Anyone else care to share how their video production works?
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Post by hsrose on Aug 23, 2006 8:59:47 GMT -6
I'm a 2nd year varsity assistant coach, having spent 3 years at the youth level. I coach the DE's and WR's. I also do all the video processing.
In our league/area we have no/very limited film exchange so we scout and tape other teams - if we want to see it, we have to go get it. This gives me control over our own video – I’m not relying on someone else/other teams to provide me with the video material.
My procedures are to record a game (ours or a scout game) to tape using the mini-dv (digital) format. We use a $500, 3 CCD Panasonic camera that is pretty good, but it’s not the $3k Sony-type. It's good, but not the best. I had 2 soph. students that taped the games for us and they did an outstanding job. The resulting video was outstanding for the coaches and players. We went from VHS where the player numbers were sometimes hard to see, to digital where they could see the players hands.
I load the tape into my Macintosh computer using the iMovie application. I then archive the tape. Loading the tape into the computer brings in each play/clip individually. I generate a quick DVD of the game. We meet the morning after games to stretch, lift, and go over the video. I have from after the game until 0900 to get the game video and any scout video out to DVD. This is just a replication of the game tape – no cutups, no editing. It’s easier to use the DVD with the controls than with the VHS machines, plus the image quality seems to be a lot higher.
I then move the clips to a Mac product called TDVideo. I add the stats for each play (done with the other coaches after the "morning after" player meeting) and generate the game reports and detailed cutups. From there I take the cutup clips to DVD Studio Pro and generate the cutup DVD's. The coaches get these on Monday.
Using TDVideo, which is the same product type as the other video editors that are Windows-based (ex. Digital Sports Video), enables me to enter the detailed data about each play. This then generates the stats and scouting reports. Entering the data takes the longest time of the process. I can combine games for a team and then generate cutups of all their offensive plays over a number of games. I would assume this is pretty basic functionality for the football video applications out there.
This is a new process for our school. Before last year it was VHS tapes with poor labeling, no archive, etc. Now, the DVD’s are printed for each game, multiple copies are made for the coaches, a library has been setup (binder with all the DVD’s), and the overall quality of the video has been greatly improved.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 23, 2006 8:55:24 GMT -6
How does your team handle the acquisition and processing of the game video? Who does your taping, what is your media, how is it processed, how much detail do you go into on cutups, statistics, reports, etc.? Do you have a separate group that does this work or is it done by coaches? Are you using one of the commercial video applications, like Digital Sports Video/ TDVideo/ ProScout or something you put together yourself?
I’m looking for ways to improve our video capabilities and processes so any suggestions you might have would be appreciated. I've added a second message that describes what we do as a point of reference.
Thanks
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