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Post by windigo on Sept 7, 2009 13:07:36 GMT -6
Exactly. The clarity of the video is real good on the first one. What camera are you guys using? I thought our schools film was good....... We use a cannon GL2. When the game is over I take the camera home and import the video to my external hard drive as a .wmv using movie maker. My external is formatted NTFS so I'm free to keep the quality as high as possible without exceeding the file size limit like you can with FAT32. Then I edit the game film with Roxio Creator 2009(yes its licensed) putting chapters at each offensive and defensive series as well as special teams. As I'm editing I keep a look out for the good plays and write down the time they happen, pretty easy since most good plays occur at a change of possession anyways which is what I'm looking for when I'm editing chapters. When the chapters are edited I save and close out my current project then open a new one, using my written markers as a guide I splice together a highlight real with music(no music on the youtubes of course {censored} recording artists) and make the file usually as a high quality avi. Then I open back up the main project, put the highlight real as the menu background, burn the whole thing to disk, and make an ISO for quick new disks. When I'm cutting for youtube I make a new wide screen project with the AVI highlight real, mute it, use zoom to fit the wide screen window, and create an MPEG2 that goes on youtube. I like MPEG2 it comes out clear at about 100MB and has a HQ option in youtube. Mind you as far as the youtbue goes I figured this out yesterday. There might be a better format but I haven't found it yet. The one thing I would like is a new HD camera that outputs to a SD card. That would save me a whole hell of a lot of time. The importing is the longest part of the process. An HD camera that outputs to a SD eliminates that process.
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Post by windigo on Sept 6, 2009 18:00:35 GMT -6
Got another one done. Flashplayer still choppy as hell.
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Post by windigo on Sept 6, 2009 14:42:46 GMT -6
Nice Coach.... didn't know you got Tebow on scholly. His name is Justin Kaufman. They call him Tebow Jr., little Tebow (but he aint that small). Last year he was easily the states best power runner in a power I. This year he is a spread QB and {censored} good one, and he is a natural leader. His QB coach last year(on hiatus this year) was one hell of a DIAA QB till he got injured. So for a first year starter at QB he is very refined. But since he is a first year starter as a Sr. playing in Alaska, for a program that had a coaching change due to an "incident", we think he is flying under a lot of college coaches radars. Thats why we are tying to get stuff out through preps, rivals facebook etc. But he aint the only one. We got a {censored} good team with some real freaks. That #5 is only a junior. I'm the longest serving coach on the staff and I've coached every single one of these kids through the levels. Thats why I want to make sure that the stuff I put out looks good and professional but with the current state of my flashplayer I cant tell!!! After I got the film done I've spent the whole day updating drivers and things just got worse. Its got to be my solid state hard drive.
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Post by windigo on Sept 6, 2009 12:52:40 GMT -6
Okay everyone as an Alaskan team exposure for our players has always been a problem for us so I've been pushing the head coach to set up a youtube account for the team for a while so that we can link it to a facebook, Rivals, and Preps. As a new young generation Y staff we are tying to be as up to date with the technology as we can be. Finally got him to set it up and I've been playing with my Roxio for the last two days getting the format aspect ratio and all the other things right.
Here is the first highlight reel from our first game this season. It looks okay on my computer but my Flash player has problems that I've been meaning to fix but have been too busy with coaching this season to get around to. I want to know what kind of quality everyone else is getting.
If you got any problems, poor quality, choppy please tell me.
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Post by windigo on Sept 6, 2009 3:35:30 GMT -6
Blount needs to be susupended for the whole season, as he was, and Hout deserves a suspension for a game or two as well. What Hout did was a stupid thing that a lot of kids do that results in little more than a 15 yard penalty and some extra conditioning come Monday. We don't even kick them out of the game for it. Its one warning. It takes two to get ejected. Its not his fault that Blount totally flew off the handle and his punishment should not be based on Blount's reaction.
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Post by windigo on Aug 31, 2009 11:43:05 GMT -6
Okay as a S&C coach do you believe it is possible for a natural player to handle the kind of volume that the Michigan Players are reporting that their S&C coach required?
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Post by windigo on Aug 31, 2009 11:37:21 GMT -6
This what the board is all about coach; disagreements are far more entertaining than agreements. My take on it is pretty is as such; if the NCAA finds some violations then I'll be far more inclined to side with the players. I just feel that, at this point, it's all kind of hear-say. I think that there is some bad voodoo going on in Ann Arbor; people are feeling Coach Rod is taking the team into the tank. I will add, that as a Strength and Condo guy, I do disagree with some of things that Barwis does. Even at the high school level, I feel that S and C needs to be about increasing performance and preveting injuires; not making players "tougher". You take your physical raw material in the offseason and you mold it using proper S&C protocol. You don't kill the athletes in the process; you won't get the gains that you want and the players become burned out. IMHO the question in my mind is how does the S&C coach expect his player's bodies to deal with this kind of volume. This kind of volume can only be tolerated by the body if it is being aided through unnatural means.
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Post by windigo on Aug 30, 2009 23:31:02 GMT -6
I haven't heard of any places demanding 12 hour days. You shouldn't have too. Thats too much. The fight or flight response will kill the body. When I look at some programs and the volume of their exercise program it becomes pretty obvious which ones expect their players to violate the rules and the law and which ones do not. Old saying in bodybuilding never copy a bodybuilders program. You're not doing what they are doing so you cant do what they do.
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Post by windigo on Aug 29, 2009 19:17:18 GMT -6
If one kid gets it they will all get it. Once symptoms occur they have been transmitting the virus for days.
On the upside, from a purely competitive point of view, every other team will get it. Football has the greatest invention ever for transmitting disease to a large amount of people.
Good game good game good game good game good game
You play a team with swine flue after the shake your team will be guaranteed to have it.
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Post by windigo on Aug 25, 2009 15:16:15 GMT -6
What has been the attributing factors to the Wildcat making its way into the NFL? Over specialization. Both in players and in coaching. NFL defense are predicated on only seeing the same 5 basic running plays.
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Post by windigo on Aug 22, 2009 23:41:56 GMT -6
I have absolutely no idea how I would deal with something like that either as his coach or the coach of the opposing team.
If I were his coach I think a lot of it I would have to leave up to the captains. I'm the coach they were his friends. I can give a speech at practice but it would sadly fall on them to keep the team together and focused while they grieve for during all those other hours of the day.
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Post by windigo on Aug 20, 2009 8:58:15 GMT -6
Ok here is the situation. Kid shows up for practice a week into the season. He is a good player and most of the kids have played with him before. In 2 weeks of practice he makes 5 practices. Yesterday school started and he still didn't make practice. He left the school as soon as school left out. I'm sure he may show up one day with another excuse.
Now here is where I figured out whats going on. I call his home number and instead I get HIS cellphone. His message says if you are calling between 3:00 and 6:00 I'm at practice. So here is my read. The kids father has picked him up from 1 practice so he knows his son is playing football. The kid filled out the paper work himself and had his dad sign it. Dad didn’t even notice that he listed his cell phone as the contact number. This gives him football as a cover for whatever {censored} he is doing after school when his parents think he is at practice.
Am I wrong???
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Post by windigo on Aug 17, 2009 15:37:11 GMT -6
Ok here is the issue. I'm an experienced line coach and the freshman head coach. I have done little work with the varsity but I do see a problem that needs to be addressed but broaching it with the head coach is a sensitive issue. The o-line coach is also the d coordinator. During the game he is very busy call the D and isn't able to spend the time coaching up the O-line. I feel that I could be a help to the varsity by working with the o-line on the sideline. This will allow us to adjust quicker to what the defense is showing and free him up entirely to focus on D during the game. How do I approach this without looking like I want his job or am criticizing him.
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Post by windigo on Aug 13, 2009 0:54:20 GMT -6
You don't have to assign blame for the loss, so don't even mention the JV guys. Just let them know how happy you are with the way they played, especially against older players. Well I explained to them how happy and proud I was of them and how they brought it with a sack of nuts to a JV team all without mentioning our JV at all. Then one raised his hand. I asked him what he had to say and he blamed the JV. And I'm like damn, I cant win!!!!
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Post by windigo on Aug 12, 2009 15:09:26 GMT -6
Ok guys got my first big pregame speech as headcoach coming up for my freshmen. I'm looking for ideas.
I'm thinking of using something I learned from Darin Slack that the high school career is 4 hours long as the center piece. Stand up, grab it, savor every second of it, never waste any of it etc.
I know we got some far more experienced head coaches than I. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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Post by windigo on Aug 9, 2009 23:44:12 GMT -6
Does anyone not use offensive linemen for their fieldgoal formation?
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Post by windigo on Aug 9, 2009 16:40:31 GMT -6
How are you going to do that without ripping the JV kids? Tell me something I dont know. Part of the problem is I got to get them ignore the loss and focus on how well they played without ripping on the JV.
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Post by windigo on Aug 9, 2009 16:20:09 GMT -6
Ok here is the deal. I'm the head coach of the freshman. This week our opponent didn't have a freshman team so the decision was made late in the week to have all freshman who were eligible dress out with the JV. This really didn't bother me because I expected my freshmen to be sitting on the bench. And win or loose they wouldn't consider it on them.
Well the game roles around and the JV is playing poorly. Towards the end of the 1st half they are down and I'm noticing more of my guys on the field. By the second half basically my entire defense is on the field.
When they got out there, defensively they pummeled the other team. Shut them down cold, and brought the pain which is what I teach. My motto is never try and injure but you want that guy calling in sick on Friday(day after freshman games). I was so proud. But while the offense did start moving with ball and did score it wasn't enough and they lost 6-18.
Now here is where I stand. I was expecting them to sit on the sidelines and watch the JV play. With at most a few of my best players getting a few reps in. Instead they all played a lot and lost. I don't want them to put this loss on themselves because I know {censored} well from what I saw on the field that with 4 quarters and our full team my freshman would have won that game.
So now I got to give the little speech tomorrow. And make them ignore the loss and focus on how well they played. And I got to do it without ripping on the JV, thank you phantom. So I got my own ideas but I wanted to bounce it off of you guys.
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Post by windigo on Aug 9, 2009 16:08:28 GMT -6
We always condition. There is nothing worse than loosing a game because you were tired. But everyone gets tired. What I try and teach with the conditioning is the ability to dig deep when tired.
Here is the drill in macro terms. Tire them with about 10 mins of hard sprinting then introduce some kind of game usually a relay race where the winners are rewarded. This teaches the mind way more than the body. It teaches the ability to suck it up and play well when tired. I really regard this as mental conditioning not physical.
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Post by windigo on Aug 6, 2009 12:23:49 GMT -6
If a player benches 300 or verticle jumps 35 during training does it only count on testing day ? We test all the time in the off-season. If a player sets a record it goes on the board.
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Post by windigo on Aug 6, 2009 9:12:01 GMT -6
When I was a player I busted my {censored} off so I could test the best. I practiced my pro bench, I practiced my 40, I practiced my I-test (I knew exactly how many steps it took me, I could turn on a dime and I was an O-lineman). All of that practice made me a better football player as well. It motivates players to work hard in the offseason. Understand you are coaching football players not drama students. They have a naturally competitive nature. Nurture it.
We also leave up the records in the weight room. Those records stand until they are beaten. Its nice to see old records up on the board. It lets the kids appreciate the history and tradition of the program. When someone who has a record comes back in the off season or even to coach it’s a big deal because the players already know his name and admire him before he ever shows up.
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Post by windigo on Aug 3, 2009 16:53:50 GMT -6
The other team
I saw this a while ago and no one posted it here to my memory. Its so funny.
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Post by windigo on Jul 29, 2009 21:09:38 GMT -6
Anybody have any heartburn with their sleepless nights? No I discovered pepcid a long time ago.
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Post by windigo on Jul 29, 2009 14:49:01 GMT -6
Yep can't sleep.
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Post by windigo on Jul 29, 2009 12:45:54 GMT -6
I believe that players play and coaches coach.
Don’t play with puppies if you don’t want to get licked.
I believe that 14-18 year olds have no self discipline. Do not mistake discipline brought on by the program for self discipline.
I believe that at the fundamental level routine is paramount for developing discipline.
I believe that its a fine line between intensity and emotion. Intensity is clutch, emotion is choke.
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Post by windigo on Jul 6, 2009 15:31:01 GMT -6
We are going to be doing it this year and I like the idea. For one it gives you the depth to practice the way you want to. Now we have enough players that we can break apart for 9-7 and 7-7.
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Post by windigo on Jul 1, 2009 15:49:55 GMT -6
This is why Okoye was so bad ass.
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Post by windigo on Jul 1, 2009 9:53:14 GMT -6
YOU are crazy...Tecmo Bo is hands down the most dominant player in any video game ever. Hey, I didn't make it up, that's how it was reported on G4, blame them. Only in when playing your friend. When you played a season it was hard coded that every game the players on the computer controlled team would get faster. By the playoff every player on the other team was faster than BO. Thats when Okoye's hitting power started to dominate.
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Post by windigo on Jun 30, 2009 14:46:20 GMT -6
And cotrary to popular opinion the 3-4 was not hard coded into the game as the only defense. It was just that popular in the early 90s.
That being said I want to make popcorn with Okoye. He was a beast in that game. I know everybody says that Bo was the best in the game but no. It was Okoye. As the game sped up over the season Okoyes hitting power took over. I would have the cap 4095(most a 12-bit number can be) rushing yards with him by game 11.
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Post by windigo on Jun 29, 2009 14:15:27 GMT -6
I dont think 80% is good enough.
.80^5 = .33. Thats a 33% chance that the play is blocked correctly each play. Add in a TE and it drops to 26%. Thats why I demand over 90%. At 90% its a better than 50/50 at 59% no TE 53% with TE.
I cant help it I'm an engineer by trade. When that 10% is factored across the whole line it makes a huge huge difference.
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