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Post by coacht65 on Apr 9, 2019 10:20:17 GMT -6
Sure, it is impossible to "know" why any company does anything. But it is pretty easy to infer what is going on. In the post above, I lay out what their costs are for storage. This is a known number - their CTO is all over the internet talking about how they use AWS and which services they use, and AWS's pricing is transparent. If anything, that estimate is on the low side, as they probably have a special deal given how big a client they are. If they were simply trying to cover overhead, they could have introduced ala cart pricing for storage. Even at double their costs, that is still only about $50 a year per 100GB of data. But no, they instead chose to put hard limits on storage and want you to "upgrade" to a higher tier that costs between $800 and $1,600 more per year but only costs them a few dollars more in storage. So, are they trying to "F cash strapped programs"? That is a value judgement. But it is absolutely the effect of their policies to grab as much cash as they think the (presently inelastic) market will bear. And the reason they are doing it now is because they think they can - they have run all the major competitors out of the market, and they believe they have a sticky enough product that most customers don't want to go through the hassle and risk of changing. And they are probably right, at least in the short term.
Hudl doesn't owe me anything except to provide the service that I paid for. They owe it to their shareholders to make as much money for them as they can. They are not putting a gun to my head, forcing me to buy their product. I am an unabashed capitalist, I say more power to them. If I don't like it I can shoot it with a digital camera and do my own film time from a thumb drive or a DVD. It's not impossible it's just a pain in the balls. We did it with a middle school program about 12 years ago. The product wasn't as good and it was more time consuming but it was free.
You said it yourself - it will work for them in the short term but they are slitting their own throats in the long term.
Agreed, no one is putting a gun to anyone's head. But they are doing a major bait and switch on us. For years while they were building market share, they assured everyone that game film would be free. That was a major selling point. Now that they don't have to worry about market share so much, so that promise/assurance whatever you want to call it, is broken. It is very much a soft kind of fraud on their customers. Not illegal, but definitely not ethical.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 9, 2019 10:05:16 GMT -6
To be honest, if their primary market were NFL teams, I'd be totally fine with it. Bilk some billionaires out of a few extra bucks, they can afford it. But their primary market is high schools, which are...not known for having stacks of ducats just lying around. I know, I know, everybody is going to get all uppity about "oh so they can't sell their product" or "entitled to the sweat of their brow" or whatever, but it's just kind of {censored} to make a decision solely because you can extract money from the education system. how do you know the reason they're doing it? I highly doubt it's just to F cash strapped programs over. Like any business, they are most likely analyzing their overhead costs and adjusting accordingly. If they were going to do it just to screw people, they'd have done it a long time ago. Sure, it is impossible to "know" why any company does anything. But it is pretty easy to infer what is going on. In the post above, I lay out what their costs are for storage. This is a known number - their CTO is all over the internet talking about how they use AWS and which services they use, and AWS's pricing is transparent. If anything, that estimate is on the low side, as they probably have a special deal given how big a client they are. If they were simply trying to cover overhead, they could have introduced ala cart pricing for storage. Even at double their costs, that is still only about $50 a year per 100GB of data. But no, they instead chose to put hard limits on storage and want you to "upgrade" to a higher tier that costs between $800 and $1,600 more per year but only costs them a few dollars more in storage. So, are they trying to "F cash strapped programs"? That is a value judgement. But it is absolutely the effect of their policies to grab as much cash as they think the (presently inelastic) market will bear. And the reason they are doing it now is because they think they can - they have run all the major competitors out of the market, and they believe they have a sticky enough product that most customers don't want to go through the hassle and risk of changing. And they are probably right, at least in the short term.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 9, 2019 5:31:11 GMT -6
So then why when they can still make a lot of money by offering bonus storage are they not going to make that an option? My guess? They want to force you into a higher tier. FAR more profit margin in Gold or Platinum than merely selling storage. Why collect $100 at a mere 80% profit margin when you can collect an extra $1,000 by forcing someone to go up a tier. Hudls marginal cost between silver and Gold? About $12 for extra storage. And between Gold and Platinum? A little extra support costs at the platinum level for 24/7 phone support plus say $50 (tops) in extra storage. Or to put it more simply, because they are trying to extract as much money from the game as possible and they made the conscious decision that this was the best way to do it. And until a competitor shows up, they are probably right.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 8, 2019 11:08:46 GMT -6
Here is how bad Hudl is screwing us with the new pricing. Hudl uses Amazon Web services for their hosting. AWS charges someone like Hudl no more than 2.1 cents per GB of data per month. So even if you had 1 terabyte of film stored (roughly 1000 GBs), it would cost Hudl $21 per month or $252 per year.
We currently have about 300 GB of film across 5 age groups middle school through varsity. That would require us to go to platinum from gold, costing us an extra $1600 a year. Hudl’s cost is only $76 a year for all 300GB of storage.
If Hudl was being anywhere close to reasonable, they would charge $50 per 100GB of storage over the limit. That still gives them a 800% markup over their costs.
Yes, the outrage is justified.
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Post by coacht65 on Dec 12, 2018 10:45:00 GMT -6
The useful idiot stuff is my opinion. So is my characterization of Fox News’s motivation for having her on. The rest is based on first hand quotes from the presidential contender herself. Although in fairness to her, she did admit she would probably be better as Vice President to Trump for her first elected office position.
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Post by coacht65 on Dec 12, 2018 10:13:16 GMT -6
Here is what really happened. She is right wing, for better or worse. She is pro gun, and did not like the protest/day of remembrance. She used it as an opportunity to object to the protest by alleging that the school would not support a pro-life walkout like they would a day of remembrance for students killed in school shootings.
She got suspended for this transparent as ph*ck attempt. She doubled down and looks to organize a pro life rally. Laura Ingram gets word of this “first amendment warrior” and brings her on her show. Like the good useful idiot she is, she becomes a prop in Laura’s right wing propaganda campaign.
Now she wants to run for president. In any other time, it would be an absurd plot line to a bad comedy sketch.
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Post by coacht65 on Dec 12, 2018 9:51:23 GMT -6
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Post by coacht65 on Dec 12, 2018 9:44:35 GMT -6
You realize the last paragraph of the last article you cite directly supports what I said?
“A statement from Diana Capra at Rocklin School District Statement says, “The teacher was not penalized or placed on leave based on her viewpoints… the district can clarify that the action was taken due to complaints from parents and students involving the teacher’s communications regarding… the student-led remembrance activities.”
In other words, she objected to the students engaging in the school shooting remembrance activities and was suspended for it. Then she goes on Fox News and is laps up all the attention she received. Now she thinks this and other magical BS qualifies her to be president.
I would laugh if it wasn’t so pathetic.
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Post by coacht65 on Dec 11, 2018 23:29:08 GMT -6
She sounds like a piece of work:
“As far as qualifications, Benzel humbly suggested she might actually be OVERqualified: “I have a unique and incredible historical perspective from analyzing both United States foreign and domestic policy for the last 30 years.” She also says “I am indeed the most ordinary, “common” person of all: a teacher and mother, married to the high school football coach, we have 5 daughters, living in suburbia America, working hard throughout the week, attending ball games on Saturdays and church on Sundays.” Benzel believes she will resonate with the majority of hard-working Americans”
She is a high school teacher and Trump lover. Went on Fox News and criticized her students for protesting for safer schools.
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Post by coacht65 on Oct 3, 2018 13:25:31 GMT -6
All in all, the kid that was "attacked" didn't suffer any injuries. no harm, no foul. Chalk it up to poor sportsmanship. Any background as to why junior Kyle Turley gave 110% effort? What if one of his mongo coaches tried to motivate him by making up a story about #17? Here's to hoping sub-par players who get owned on the field start a #MeToo movement about being bullied between the whistle. You sir, are an idiot of the highest qualification. I can only pray for you and your team that this post is some type of elaborate hoax on the rest of us coaches to make us doubt you as a human being so you can later say “just kidding” and make us all laugh.
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Post by coacht65 on Oct 2, 2018 20:19:14 GMT -6
I guess we missed the part where the kid kicked him in the balls? Was it an acceptable response to that? Probably not, but you go kicking the jewels, something is going to happen. Seriously? That’s your take? The kid was getting choked out and beat in - pure self defense.
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Post by coacht65 on Oct 2, 2018 20:13:34 GMT -6
That kid should be charged and prosecuted for assault by the local police. I’d be swearing out an arrest warrant if I was his dad.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 27, 2018 8:47:59 GMT -6
How do you use a light linemen like that? Especially when they can face a defender that could be heavier between 20 to 50 lbs? I might have to think about that possibility The kid was 160 as a 7th grader found a spot and hasn't given it up...we have had 3 OL hurt this fall (and another not come out)and he likely wouldn't have been a guard when camp opened (we had planned to move him to TE). He is designated puller and he flops back and forth based on the play..and some times just for the fun of it. The other guard is a soph. that is still learning the game.
Against a couple of kids who are FCS commits it got a bit ugly...
I don't think he has given up less than a 40 pounds- the FCS kids were both 270.
I love this kid already.
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Post by coacht65 on Jun 26, 2018 10:25:49 GMT -6
I think most of it is to feed the coaches ego. I’ll never forget my high school coach running off a 6’6” 300 pound guy. This kid was a genetic freak, but he came from a family that had a logging business. He’d still come to the summer workouts but sorta half assessed the running and conditioning, which I would too after working all damn day pulling cable up and down mountains hooking up chokers on logs. Our high school coach though couldn’t have that and kept chewing his ass till the ole boy told him where he could go. That coach deserves the dumbass of the decade award.
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Post by coacht65 on Jan 31, 2018 21:56:51 GMT -6
Intersting to hear about schools where they are not worn. Around here (Georgia), the jackets are still a pretty big deal.
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Post by coacht65 on Oct 3, 2017 12:03:03 GMT -6
We don't use single digits program wide - basic thinking is too much "me" in the single digits, especially No. 1. Of course, that just makes the teen digits more popular for the QBs and WRs!
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 15, 2017 8:25:52 GMT -6
While we still have year to year variations, we have cut down our concussions with a combination of neck strengthening exercises, hydration and better tackling techniques. I feel like we are still hitting as much in practice, though the number of big impacts are reduced.
Hydration seems to be a big factor.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 14, 2017 18:58:12 GMT -6
Your a meme machine, Brophy!
Clearly I struck a nerve.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 14, 2017 18:15:44 GMT -6
Pretty sure I have been around longer than you. Like I said above, if you can't acknowledge the reality of life around you, it is hard to have a rational discussion with you. Good luck to you team this season. P.s. The statistics may be from official sources, but they were complied in this chart with the labels and big red lettering for the purpose of advancing arguments of bigots and racists.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 14, 2017 17:14:43 GMT -6
]This is a flat-out racist post. which part? help us understand Sure. First of all, this "chart" is found on numerous "alt-right", conspiracy and white power sites. It is used by them to diminish legitimate claims that institutionalized discrimination still exists in many of our police forces and governmental agencies. It does this by using a logical fallacy, creating a red herring by pointing toward "black-on-black" crime to draw attention and diminish the real racism and disparate impact that certain parts of our government still exhibit. It also perpetuates the myth that the reason you have black-on-black crime is because "culture" or because they are "inner city" which are racist dog-whistle words for "because they're black". By posting it, you are using it in the same manner, perhaps without even realizing you are doing it. You point to how you have successfully raised your own black son without him turning into a criminal. Congratulations. He is fortunate he has you, because thousands of families are stuck in generational poverty that has a direct line back the jim crow laws straight through today's white privilege. You are also making a common mistake conflating individual opportunity and character with societal ills. The societal ills facing many of these kids are incredibly difficult to overcome, even with the best "character" an individual may have. I'd like for you to do a thought experiment. Pretend backs enslaved whites in America for 400 years and then spent the next 150 years passing laws and organizing society to protect blacks from whites. Jobs paid less, were harder to find and easier to lose. You were barred from marrying if it was the wrong skin color. Your schooling was substandard and you were barred from certain schools. You could not get a mortgage or even live in certain areas. Your health and food is worse than the black race because you cannot afford better. No one from your race was president until just recently, and the black race alleged he was not even born in America in a racist attempt to smear your candidate. Things for your white race have improved recently, but you and your family are still more likely by a factor of 10 to get shot by a black police officer and you have watched dozens of your race killed in cold blood for the crime of walking with a hood on or simply driving in the wrong area. And then you get to watch the murdering bastard cops who did it get off. So, if you go through this thought experiment and still think it all comes down to just pulling yourself up by the boot straps, then I guess there is nothing more for us to talk about. Because we sure as heck will never agree on whether it is ok for a high school football player to draw attention to the racism he and his family has to face every day by peacefully kneeling during the national anthem.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 14, 2017 12:10:26 GMT -6
My main motivation is seeing a video where the brother of a player I coached get gunned down with 7 shots while wearing seatbelt, with his gf's daughter in the back seat that by an act of God's good grace was not harmed. I am a passionate person, but that the cop got away with that and similar acts have been told to us by African Americans since the 1970's but is showing up on the news first after cell phone cameras started recording it. The facts are there but us as a society have been blind to it since the LA riots that was started by a police wrongfully gunning down an African American woman. I believe it is time to listen, not judge and say what to do or not to do. We have done it and it led us here boo hoo. people die everyday Again, are you protesting Law Enforcement policies? Law Enforcement oversight? or some plight of dark skinned Americans? If the former, okay....but that is a ridiculously small portion of actual incidents. If the latter, then be about the self-genocide in every American city. Black males 16-35 are wiping each other out in record numbers every week with violence. A large part of that stems from the fact that we don't reinforce the message that the only way to get ahead in America is through 1) education 2) employment 3) sound financial decisions. That metric is cold, but true of anyone regardless of any demographic they fit in. You can certainly have those opinions or beliefs, but compelling the team to participate (or allowing it) is what is in question. This is a flat-out racist post. You should delete it or ask an admin to delete it for you.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 12, 2017 13:06:35 GMT -6
If a young man was to play on Friday nights, he had better not take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Our players will stand, if for no other reason than to show their respect for those in our community who have served in the armed forces. I cannot believe the passivity and hypocrisy of so many coaches on this board. Furthermore, I cannot believe that any of you support what "Kap" does and says! For those of you worried about a lawsuit, how do you enforce any of the other expectations that you have for your players? That's a cop-out! You just don't want to upset your snowflakes! Be a leader. Teach your athletes to respect the flag. They live in the greatest country in the world! Just to be clear, I would support a member of my team doing this. It is not a reflection or disparagement of anyone who has served. It is a social commentary on the disparate treatment experienced by minorities and marginalized groups. The only "snowflakes" (I hate that term) I see are the ones that think their team, country and manhood are somehow negatively I mpacted by someone doing this. Just because we are the greatest country in the world, does not mean we cannot be a better one. Pretty sure Saban doesn't win a championship and then decide there is nothing to improve.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 12, 2017 10:47:11 GMT -6
That article has to do with drug testing. There is no constitutionally protected right to take drugs. Political speech, however, is afforded the highest protection available under the constitution (strict scrutiny), and generally can only be abridged in a public forum under limited circumstances. Basically, you would have to argue that kneeling was disruptive to public order or endangered the safety of the public or harmed the property. Good luck with that. Abstract: The First Amendment speech rights of public school students engaged in extracurricular activities occupy a doctrinal no-man’s land between individual expression and a government-controlled curriculum. Applying Supreme Court precedent, courts tend to characterize extracurricular student speech as either individual speech under Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District or “school-sponsored” speech under Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. More recently, some courts have analogized students to government employees, particularly when school officials “forecast” that speech will be disruptive. Voluntary, extracurricular activities, and student speech within those activities, play essential roles in education. Applying a forecast of disruption standard, however, to student extracurricular speech shifts the burden from schools to students to show that speech is not disruptive. As a result, the forecast of disruption standard may condition student participation on giving up free speech rights, contrary to schools’ educational missions. This Note proposes requiring school officials relying on a forecast of disruption to punish student speech to demonstrate that the disruption materially and substantially interferes with the educational goal of the particular extracurricular activity. bclawreview.org/review/53_1/08_zeide/That is a really good law review note. Directly on point to this discussion - thanks for finding it. Worth reading the whole thing if you are so inclined. The case law it cites supports the idea that this is a closer issue than I thought. That said, the school would have to show that a player taking a knee was a "substantial potential disruption" to the extracurricular activity. The closest case is that of a cheerleader who was removed from the team for refusing to cheer for a player that she alleges had assaulted her (as an aside, what the heck were the school admins thinking???). The court found, surprisingly to me, that the school had the right to remove her because she was failing to perform a core duty of the activity, cheer. While her speech (or lack of speech) was arguably protected speech, the school successfully argued that it was a substantial disruption to the extra-curricular activity because she was not cheering as directed. So, is taking a knee during the anthem a "substantial disruption" to a football game? That seems like a tall hill to climb. But I guess you could take your chances and try to make that argument if you choose to stop your players from expressing themselves in that manner. But why buy yourself that potential trouble?
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 12, 2017 10:06:19 GMT -6
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 12, 2017 9:44:26 GMT -6
If you are coaching at a public school, your arguments aren't going to hold up. Try using that "a kid doesn't have a right to play" defense when you're sitting on the witness stand. You don't have the right to force your political views on a kid any more than you have the right to enforce your religious views. Truth is, if you kick a kid off for this, you won't have to let us know. Someone else will share the link to the news article about it. Extracurricular activities are not a right. usedulaw.com/285-extracurricular-activities-law-and-policy.htmlI know where everyone is coming up with "violating their rights". Extracurricular activities are a privilege and those participating can be held to a higher standard. This is why we are able to drug test everyone in extracurricular activities but not the general student population. That article has to do with drug testing. There is no constitutionally protected right to take drugs. Political speech, however, is afforded the highest protection available under the constitution (strict scrutiny), and generally can only be abridged in a public forum under limited circumstances. Basically, you would have to argue that kneeling was disruptive to public order or endangered the safety of the public or harmed the property. Good luck with that.
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Post by coacht65 on Sept 11, 2017 20:33:18 GMT -6
Let us know how that goes when you bench a kid for that. You don't have a legal leg to stand on. It doesn't matter whether you or I like it or not. Are you going to do the same thing to a kid that refuses to participate in prayer? A kid doesn't have a right to play, so benching them violates no law. And no, I wouldn't bench a kid that refuses to pray. I wouldn't hold team prayer if I were the head coach. But that's a different issue anyways. One is allowing kids to have different religious beliefs. The other is about respect. You can at least stand for the anthem and still be anti-whatever. The two are unrelated. But that's also the thing. I can't stop them from kneeling. But I can exercise my right to choose who I want representing my team. I also look at it from a recruiting aspect. If potential athletes' parents see my guys kneeling... in West Virginia, those potential players would be going elsewhere If you coach for a public school, you could not be more wrong. Violate that kids 1st amendment rights, and you are inviting a lawsuit. In federal court, which means not the local judge you hunt with. Yeah, you can choose not to recruit them, and all things being equal, that's fine. But like someone else said, if it he is otherwise a stud and a good kid, pretty stupid not to recruit him because of this.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 8, 2017 6:33:36 GMT -6
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 8, 2017 6:24:42 GMT -6
coacht65 can you explain how you do that? I use Drive all the time and have heard ppl talk about Evernote but not sure how it would work Sure. Evernote stores and organizes all of your random digital "stuff" you read or come across. It has extensions you install on your browser. If you come across an article you like, hit the button and it "clips" that article into Evernote. You can store pretty much anything digital in there, from spreadsheets to pdfs, to videos, to web sites to emails. You can then have it all in one big folder and search by word, or put things in separate notebooks and add tags. Personally, I have one notebook for football and then tag everything as offense, defense, special teams, drills, and type of scheme (4-4, 4-3, flexbone, RPO, etc). I still use google drive, but primarily for generating documents. I store most of my stuff in Evernote now because it organizes it so well. That and the web clipper, which is awesome.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 7, 2017 10:36:54 GMT -6
Georgia has them all lumped together, but private schools are forced into the next highest size classification (so are with any public schools that allow students from outside their district). The smallest division, 1A, has a separate private and public championship, but it is all one governing body.
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Post by coacht65 on Apr 7, 2017 6:55:31 GMT -6
not sure how broad you meant to go here but here is our basics.we have enclosed trailer for away games it is a lot. 2 water buggies with ice and water for players on sideline 2-3 racks of water bottles to run water out during time outs Waterproof football bag with 10-12 footballs, tees, towels Helmet repair bag stocked with hardware kit, extra chin straps, mouthpieces, a few each ear pads for various style helmets, a few knee pads (rest of pads built into girdles), tools, laces, etc 1 table for supplies, 1 training table Headsets in case Endzone tower with electronics case, and new hudl sideline case for endzone Pressbox Camera case and tripod, and new hudl sideline case for Pressbox (we use 2 existing camera kit) Kicking net 5 iPads for Hudl sideline, the one used in Pressbox to record, and 2 for coaches in Pressbox, 2 for coaches on field 2 dry erase boards and markers Trainers supplies- set of crutches, large trainer bag with supplies, cooler with ice for injuries My stat kit - wheeled case with small laser printer, MacBook, stapler, paper Laminated playsheets for offense , depth chart for special teams, also have agenda sheet This is very similar to what we bring.
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