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Post by Mav on Mar 22, 2007 6:56:03 GMT -6
I agree 100%. Because of our desire to get an edge on our competition, they'll always be someone there with the 'equalizer' elixlir... My rational for thinking that such an offense does not exist is simply that nobody coaches to lose. The key to football is simply to get your players to do what YOU tell them to do better than the OTHER guy can get HIS players to do what HE tells them to do. EVERY offense (even the standard pro I) offers blocking angles, dbl teams at point of attack, and the ability to scheme so that your best player gets the ball. A sound/well coached offense is the best equalizer.
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Post by Mav on May 15, 2006 12:20:48 GMT -6
Powerpoint is easy to work with and most folks already have it on their computer (= free). It can do tons of thing from animation to voice overs to game clips insertion. Also the viewer is a free download from Microsoft, if your players don't have it. Here's a simple sample of one we recently gave to our players to show them the new formation and motioning system we're installing. We created a secure login area on the website for them to download it from. This allows us security and we can see who's dowloaded playbooks. Note: it has some automatic animation, but whne it stops moving forward just click your mouse. www.savefile.com/files/9511515 For those who don't have Powerpoint installed on their system already, here's the link to the free Viewer from Microsoft - www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 15:36:33 GMT -6
remember -- now you can simply send out the link www.coachhuey.com this may be easier for people to remember. Pretty cool. What's with the colors... Coming across as shades of pink??? Seriously, it probably should match the default color scheme of the site. Makes it look more seemless.
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 10:46:45 GMT -6
Sounds great. Just recieved an email reminder about a regional clinic coming up. The 'To' and 'cc' area of the email has all of the email addresses of last years participants - over 100 active coaches. I just sent out a friendly note about Coach Huey's board to this list. If anyone else has recieved these types of emails, maybe just send a quick note out to the complete list with the url. It helps everyone.
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Post by Mav on Apr 21, 2007 12:32:48 GMT -6
At first we tried the typical offseason push, with a mantra about making the commitment, paying the price, etc. When we got them there we would be constantly pushing them. Soon the numbers would drop and all you'd have is your core handful of players there. Last year the head coach asked us to ease off and included more free time. They must have a focused 35-40 minute workout in the weight room, then the remaining time was used on agilities of their choice. The linemen love the tennis ball 'take off' drill, ladders and wall ball competitions. Once a week, they'll choose to play capture the flag or have 5 on 5 touch tournaments. They play these games and don't realize they're working out and building team chemistry. I can honestly tell you I was pissed off when we went to this format -- where was the constant intensity and sense of urgency? Now that I've stepped back and seen the attendance numbers remain high, I'm sold on the approach. Mav, That sounds great. How long did it take you to build the attendance up like that?
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Post by Mav on Apr 21, 2007 7:27:24 GMT -6
We use the off-season as a time to 'simmer'. We have agilities and weight training for 1 1/2 hours, 3 times a week, where we make a concerted effort to not be too overbearing. For the first couple of off-seasons I hated it. Thought it should be more intense - with more of a sense of urgency. But now I see why the head coach set it up this way. We consistently get about 80% of our team there (50+). Even the lacrosse, baseball and track kids try to make it. We have fun and do some unofficial 'instructing' without using balls, but in a much less intense way. The kids seem to really respond to this relaxed teaching approach. It's a great time to really get to know the players and build a team. When the spring sports end, we pick it up a notch - slowly building momentium until the season starts and we're at full boil.
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Post by Mav on May 14, 2007 14:50:48 GMT -6
Good stuff airraider. Other things you can do while you're discussing the play to keep their attention 1) use the PPT pointer and pens to highlight areas you're discussing. Kind of a whiteboard/overhead feature 2) periodically insert a picture-in-picture of yourself discussing and showing techniques 3) pan and zoom to specific areas to ensure the players are focused on the correct area 4) insert actual video of the plays (including freezing and drawing, voice over, etc) Also, the Data Execution Protection issue is not related to Camtasia. That's a Windows issue. Any program can have this problem. Microsoft did a horrendous job with this attempt at a security enhancement. Here is a great resource that I feel all of us can use. I found a program called Camtasia. It is basically a program that will allow you to record a powerpoint presentation and will record whatever you speak into a microphone while you are doing it. The end product can be in several different formats. I created mine in AVI. I then uploaded it to youtube. Check out the video I did for a coach off of here on our option and option pass. You can also burn these files as a DVD somehow or another. I havent really toyed with it enough yet to tell you how to do it, but it does have that option. There is a 30 day trial that I am using on it now. I think the full version is like $300. But just think about how valuable it could be for you. Imagine taking your entire offense and sitting down and explaining your formations, motions, blocking, or anything and putting it on DVD or even a CD with the file staying in AVI. Now your incoming freshmen or new players can get the disk and take it home over the summer and watch it. Give them a test to go along with the video. If nothing else, you have 30 days to make what you want. Check it out.. Now, here is the only part that is bad. Windows has a thing called DEP, which stands for Data Execution Protection. It kept stopping Windows Explorer when opening the folders created after making a video. So after talking with my tech guy, I just went to Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced Tab>Settings under Performance>Date Execution Prevention Tab>Click Turn on DEP for all programs except those I select and select Windows Explorer. Thats it and you are done. Doing that wont effect anything on your computer. Here is the link to the free 30 day trial. Check it out!!! www.techsmith.com/download/trials.asp
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Post by Mav on Dec 5, 2006 17:41:40 GMT -6
I too believe you can't have enough detail in your coaches playbooks. Having all of the position coaches on the same page is critical, esecially for the new staff members.
I think the key to the electronic player manuals is to make them interactive, with 'you draw it' sections, multiple choice quizzes, games, etc. Anything that promotes player feedback is the best way to ensure they're studying and absorbing the material.
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Post by Mav on Feb 4, 2007 10:10:12 GMT -6
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Post by Mav on Jun 2, 2006 9:03:46 GMT -6
We recently demoed the VG software. It's really just a film exchange application, not to be confused with a full video editing systems such as DSV or Proscout. VG will readily agree with this fact. They say they may add features if the demand is there.
Video editing systems have 4 primary components 1) video capture 2) data entry for each play 3) video output (ie cutups/highlights) 4) reporting. VG only has 1 (video capture) and 3 (video output), the 2 simplest components (and probably only 10% of a full system). What really differentiates the top systems is the ease of data entry and reporting capabilities.
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Post by Mav on Feb 15, 2006 8:40:25 GMT -6
I received it with no hassle also. He did follow the free stuff with a note explaining a couple of the things he has for sale. Not a problem with me.
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Post by Mav on Dec 19, 2006 21:31:18 GMT -6
OK, the last games are cut and I want to make a DVD of all the passes we threw this year. What is the best way to go about this? I can get the passes sorted, but how do I isolate them for export? Mav, you out there? Open the Index and Retrieval screen > load all of the games you need clips from > on the right under play information, click on 'run/pass' - choose 'pass' > click the small box next to 'pass' a-- it'll turn red > go to the top of the list and click the 'retrieve' button. Now all of the clips you've tagged as a pass will be in the playlist grid. Use the sort tab to change the order if needed. Hit the export button to write it to a mpeg file. Got distracted... or save them in a locker as posted above;)
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Post by Mav on Feb 2, 2008 13:44:05 GMT -6
We teach our offensive system over several months during the off-season. We use a segmented, building block approach using PPT videos and simple paper quizzes. It's important each segment is small enough to be easily digested. All of these are in a private area on our team website.
1) Formations 2) Motioning 3) Shifts 4) Running plays - several, split by series. Backs and linemen get separate quizzes against different fronts 5) Passing plays - several, split by quicks, 5 step, screens, blitz pickup, etc
It really helps us hit the ground running whne camp opens up.
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Post by Mav on May 5, 2007 7:24:41 GMT -6
Again, you're preaching to the choir, but we have a couple of head coaches who aren't sold on it. So we're moving on to plan B - try to develop new rules to encourage 7on7 games to be more realistic. Any other coaches 'been down this road'? All thoughts are appreciated. I'm in agreement - as coaches, it make complete sense. But a couple of the head coaches are afraid if we take the competitive 'game' aspect away, we'll have a harder time getting all of the kids there. Last year we had one practice and one game per week. We always had about 25% of the players miss practice, but they all made it to the games. During lifting and agilities, they always talked about each game and where they were in the standings, etc. Now we're trying to maintain the competitive, fun environment and make it more realistic. We're hoping being able to run once per set of downs will do this. Of course, during practices we'll run situational skelly. Guess we'll see how it goes... Anyone else have rule that allows run plays during 7on7? If not, does anyone have thoughts on what to watch out for? I would think that practicing against another team would be more than competitive, and keep your attendance up. How many kids miss your preseason scrimmage/jamboree??? I can't see a quarter of the kids missing practice when you tell them that the crosstown Jaguars are coming to your place to practice. Maybe I have been lucky, but the kids I have coached in the past were competitive. In Drills, in conditioning, in weights, in practice against themselves, the offense, in scrimmages, in preseason jamborees..... I like the idea of teaching them to compete EACH PLAY. Not worry about the scoreboard, or moving the ball, or firstdowns, or touchdowns. Just concentrate on beating YOUR GUY, THIS PLAY. Once you get your 11 worrying about beating THEIR GUY on THIS PLAY, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. I just don't think that any amount of rational thinking by the coaches ("We are just going to run our stuff..we don't care about winning in the summer..." ) holds court once scoreboards start running. It might start like that...but all of a sudden..everyone is calling 2man in the redzone on 3rd and 2 to cover the empty set....
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Post by Mav on May 4, 2007 11:15:42 GMT -6
I'm in agreement - as coaches, it make complete sense. But a couple of the head coaches are afraid if we take the competitive 'game' aspect away, we'll have a harder time getting all of the kids there. Last year we had one practice and one game per week. We always had about 25% of the players miss practice, but they all made it to the games. During lifting and agilities, they always talked about each game and where they were in the standings, etc. Now we're trying to maintain the competitive, fun environment and make it more realistic. We're hoping being able to run once per set of downs will do this. Of course, during practices we'll run situational skelly. Guess we'll see how it goes... Anyone else have rule that allows run plays during 7on7? If not, does anyone have thoughts on what to watch out for? Just a thought...If you could get all the HC's to agree to a format (and I don't see why ANYONE wouldn't agree to a nicely scripted format) you could set up the Pass skell practices that you WANTED...and then alternate the opposition. For example, Week 1 Tigers at Bulldogs, Wolves at Skippers, Panters at Tornados. Week 2 Bulldogs at Wolves, Tornadoes at Tigers, Skippers at Panthers...etc. Sounds like I am beating a dead horse, but I really think you get 3 to 4 times the work out of a scripted/controlled practice than you do tournaments with scoring. Once you put a scoreboard on it, Fall football can quickly take a backseat to all empty 5 wides vs 2 man coverage for an hour.
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Post by Mav on May 4, 2007 8:12:41 GMT -6
coachd, that's how we originally set it up. We were going to just run pass skel with one or two other teams. Then it kind of grew into 6 teams as other coaches heard about our new passing league. We think it may be too hard to coordinate pass skel with all these teams, so we're attempting to come up with a competitive pass skel format. Mav--unless you are hell bent on having some type of competitive league, I would suggest you just organize PASS SKELLY practice. You can even script what you want... personnel groupings, down/distance situations (Run situation passes, Pass situation passes, some perimeter runs such as speed, toss, and the occasional interior draw) With a little effort in organization, and all the coaches on the same page, I would think this would have a much greater benefit than the flag football tourneys. As far as just having running plays, I am assuming you wouldn't be running Lead
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Post by Mav on May 4, 2007 8:02:54 GMT -6
airraider, did you change any other rules? Was there any areas you think we need to be concerned with? We do the 1 run per series and it works great.
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Post by Mav on May 4, 2007 6:36:43 GMT -6
We haven't been satisfied with the 7on7 league we've been in for the last couple of years. We spoke with 5 other local teams who also didn't like how things were going. We'll be creating our own league and rules. Our primary complaint was how it was difficult to run anything close to our base offense(typically 40-50% of passing is playaction) because 7on7 defenses didn't align or react like what we'll see in 'real' football.
One thing we thought might make the defense react more realistically is if we allowed 1 running play pre set of downs. We agreed the main concern with this is being sure the other offensive players did not block and defensive player weren't overly aggressive with their 'tackle' - we use 2 hand touch. We also discussed extending the first down makers to 20 yards vs 15 we play with now.
Seems like it should work, but I'm sure there's reasons why this usually isn't allowed. Does anyone have any experience using limited running plays with 7on7? Any other things we should be concerned with?
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Post by Mav on May 25, 2006 19:30:17 GMT -6
The way I understand 'live capture' - you connect your digital camcorder directly to your laptop and record to the hard drive. The 'auto cutups' feature does NOT work with this. Auto cutups write a timecode stamp on the digital tape when you pause the film. It's been explained to me that this timecode cannot be written to the hard drive directly. I personally would rather have use the auto cutups feature - it only takes about 30 mins to load to disk. Manually marking ins and outs is tedious.
btw - the new version of Proscout is great so far. Most of the small annoyances have been fixed. It now has an auto update feature -- getting updated software about once a week. Can't wait for the new reporting package.
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Post by Mav on Feb 1, 2006 15:08:09 GMT -6
here's the link to all of the example reports from their website. The next reelase due next month is going to have a set of defensive reports also. proscoutvideo.com/DefaultVert.aspx?Page=ReportsI think the 1 you're referring to is 'formation vs play'
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Post by Mav on Feb 1, 2006 14:53:15 GMT -6
Does Proscout have the ability to have me enter the name of a formation once and then print a tally sheet of what plays they run out of that formation? I want to be able to look at a printout of the actual formation and what plays are run after I enter all the data. That may not have made a bit of sense. Absolutely. This was our favorite report. It gives a visual thumbnail picture of each formation with a list of each play under it. Next to the play name you can have it put the number of times run or amount of yardage gained. We usually made it 2 pages, 1 for running plays and 1 for passes. I'll try to post an example.
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Post by Mav on Jan 25, 2006 21:55:57 GMT -6
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Post by Mav on Jan 23, 2006 16:44:26 GMT -6
Has more than the required specs for memory and such...whatelse would I need to upgrade? The cpu, video card, and disk drive (and memory to a lesser degree) are the important factors for performance with video editing. The one that usually gets people is the disk drive. It has to have a rotational speed of 7500rpms or faster. That's very rare in laptops and not that common in desktops. PM me if you need any help.
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Post by Mav on Jan 23, 2006 15:57:05 GMT -6
Mav, Using a program right now to convert a VOB to an AVI and it works great....it is an excellent way to avoid not using a Canopus Converter. Just one question how fast (speed-wise) does it take the film as you are indexing? Sometimes it seems like 10 minutes in between plays. The software converter may or maybe not make an avi file that's compatible with your editing software. It has to create an uncompressed avi file. If it's converting to mpeg2 or mpeg4, etc. those are codecs(short for compress/decompress) Check it out after you convert it -- see if you can cut it up and index it. That could be your problem with the delays. There really should not be any delays. What's teh name of the converter? I use WinDVD Creator and it works great. btw - of course you'll still have to use the Conopus box for vhs tapes.
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Post by Mav on Jan 20, 2006 13:54:41 GMT -6
Do you ahppen to know the current specs of your laptop- cpu, memory, disk speed, video card w/size? Sometimes even with a high end machine the video can be blotchy. I all depend on how it was origianlly recorded. If you want to PM me I can help you out.
Mav
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Post by Mav on Jan 18, 2006 12:08:43 GMT -6
MAV, Been having issues with Film already burned to DVD and using the computers DVD player...saving the film to the desktop and then trying to cut it up....I guess I must be doing something wrong... B The issue is Proscout(most others too) needs the film to be in microsofts avi format. DVD is a different format(mpeg-2). Like sls stated -- you need to convert this to avi. The best way to do this is with an application (like WinDVD Creator) used for creating digital movies and/or dvds. The other way is to just use a dvd player to play the game and capture it just like you would a vhs tape with a vcr... players attached to a Canopus Converter, then into your computers firewire port, then capture with MovieMaker.
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 18:29:30 GMT -6
How are yall using this. We are going to start next year. I got Pro Scout the week the season started and we didn't have time to use it. My CPU at home has everything needed except the converter. Do you need the converter. Also can you load it to video tapes or do you just burn DVD's with it? 1st suggestion - work with it now in the off season while the pressure's off. Are you looking to self scout or scout opponents or both? Personally, I think scouting opponents is the 1st priority. The whatever time you have left, do your self scouting. Ideally you break up the work to a few coaches. Anyway, the way it works: 1) Import video from camera into computer.
If it's a digital camera, you just plug in a cable(Firewire) into both, rewind the tape, hit record in the program. If it's a Hi-8 camera you'll need a Canopus Converter (about $200). This small box (4x5 inches) converts the analog video into digital, so the computer can work with it. Note: with the new release of Proscout each play from a digital camcorder will automatically be split. Just be sure to have the person filming use the 'pause' button between each play -- that's what creates the split mark. 2) Decide what reports and cutups you want from the system.
That will tell you what data you need to attach to each clip. Of course the more data you enter, the more you'll get out, but the more time it will take to complete a game. But don't worry - everyone thinks there's a lot of typing involved -- there's not. You only type the info once, then after that it's pulled from a list with your mouse. Examples of what we enter: For breaking down upcoming opponents we input: general - down/dist/los/hash/pass or run/gain/coaches comments for our defense - formation/motion/playname/result(inc-comp,TD,fumble,sack,etc) for our offense - front/stunt/blitz/coverage - in our league we find most teams are very simple. You can get through a game pretty quickly. 3) Analysis -
this is the phase where you analyze all of the video w/data looking for tendencies, etc. There's dozens of reports showing the offensive plays by many variables, such as: by formation, by down/distance, by field position, by personnel, ... After reviewing everything, you decide what reports and cut ups you want to show your players. 4) Report and cutup creation -
We make printed copies of all relevant reports for each coach(they refer to them as their cheat sheets). We also create 10 minute cutups for each Varsity player to take home and review on VHS or DVD. Usually about 7 minutes of opponents offense and 3 minutes of defense. For our offensive players, it's a condensed video showing a few plays from the base D, some blitzing, stunting, and coverages. For our defensive players, it's the opponents best/top plays grouped by formation or series. Most teams either run the same plays but change the formation/motion/shifting, while others run sets(or series) of plays from specific formations. Based on our scouting, we present it logically grouped, condensed and simplified, to our players. During the week we quiz the players on who they're up against, tendencies, strengths/weaknesses,etc. You can quickly tell who's studied the film. We have post-practice light conditioning for players who 'fail' the quiz - they usually only fail once. Not because of the conditioning, but because they're being called out for not being prepared. Note: The video comes out of your computer via an S-video output connection on the back computer (on the video card) or though the Firewire. The other end plugs into a VCR or DVD writer. Let me know if you need any help when you get into this. Mav
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 15:50:11 GMT -6
Where can you get Proscout? Just go to www.proscoutvideo.comCheck around then just fill out application to recieve the donated/free copy of the software. They'll probably get right back to you by phone or email. You'll have the software within days.
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 15:20:00 GMT -6
The thing I really like about the Landro is you can capture into it during the game and mark Off/Def/ST on game nights and your basic cutups are already done. But I don't think this is enough of a feature to justify the $$$. A few systems allow live cature (Webb,LRS,SportsEdit) but waht you lose is the auto marking of play clips. The way that works is every time the camara man hits pause it makes a note/mark on the film. Then whne you load the digital film to your computer, the program will read this marking. So if you capture it live, it's just one big video file with none of the plays marked (in and out). It only takes me about 15 minutes to mark the clips/plays with Offesne/Defense/ST - and that's without auto clips. During away games it's done on the bus back. With auto clips it's probably around 5 minutes. btw - I just spoke with Proscout, they WILL have auto clips in for the next release, due in March. And the free/donation program is on again this year. ..Unbeatable.
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Post by Mav on Jan 17, 2006 12:28:33 GMT -6
i AM A former VIDEO COORDINATOR AT THE COLLEGE LVEL,AND THE BEST SYSTEM OUT THEIR AND THE ONE USED BY MOST COLLEGES AND nfl TEAMS IS XOS, what use to be pinnacle until XOS bought them out. High Schools and division three schools can contact Coach Comm down in Auburn Alabama,and they will set everything up for you,and give you a very good price. I have used a lot of systems. However XOS was by far the easiest to use. The old Pinnicle SportsEdit is really the top of the line, but was huge bucks. The company was based right up the street from me in Lowell Mass, until XOS bought them out last year. CoachComm sells a stripped down version (although I could never get them to tell me what they stripped out) that lists for $5,000 per copy. Their focus was on networking several computers together, while keeping all the the data current. That's why their market was the Pros (NE Pats use it), Div I and II colleges. A bit overkill for basic high school use... but if you got $$.
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