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Post by Mav on Jan 6, 2006 12:20:01 GMT -6
I think my motions are also easy. With my motion word first letter is player, vowel= location, last part is L/R. First letter: T-word= TB H- word= H S- word = S Second letter: A- Backfield E- End (wing) I- In (slot) O- Out (split) *check- motion towards location then back to original spot. Examples Sale- S receiver motions to Backfield Behind LT Tore- TB motions to Flanker Right Heel- H motions to WB Left. Silt- S motions to Slot Left. Does this seem too complex? If anybody wants to just kick ideas around Im more than open for it. In my opinion, the simplest motion system I've used/seen is using numbers for the typical alignment landmarks on the field, odd to the left, even to the right. Similar to your concept, except it's a simpler translation. Especially for the QB who has to remember all of the 'words'. Just prefix the number with who you want to motion there. Here are the typical landmarks -- 7/8=widest, 5/6=slot, 5/4=wing, 1/2=diveback, 0=Tail(if I)or FB ..........................OOXOOO.................................. ..7.........5.........3..............4.............6............8... ...........................1......2.................................... ...............................0........................................ So you'd call your formation, then call the motion -- Tore = T8 (not sure how your way tells which side?) Heel = H3 Don't forget you may also want to motion your TE(Y) and Split End(X). Using numbers you wouldn't need to add new words -- just X4, Y1, etc.
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Post by Mav on Jan 6, 2006 10:45:03 GMT -6
This is a pretty good list to start with. Curious to hear what sections you think are different from most coaches -- the spread stuff? If so, I'd suggest you find a school whose coach runs some form of spread. You also may want to reorder the list with -- #5. Learn basic plays and run them out of a lot of formations -- as #1.
I think you may like the book, An Education of a Coach, about Bill Belichick, the Patriot's coach. Coach Belichick and his colleauges, were not necessarily good players, but were extreme students of the games.
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Post by Mav on Nov 22, 2006 8:05:04 GMT -6
Up here in Massachusetts, Thanksgiving day IS high school football day. We have many, many rivalries that have been being played for 100+ years. We typically have breakfast with our opponent the day before (on Wed) and play the games at 10:00am on Thanksgiving.
We start our playoffs the following Tuesday and then wrap up the championship games(Superbowls) on Saturday -- lots of football in a few days.
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Post by Mav on Dec 14, 2006 21:51:42 GMT -6
Unfortuntely, MovieMaker doesn't support dvd format. You'll need to translate it to an WIndows .avi file first. I'd use WinAvi converter(trial version) and then use MovieMaker or get Proscout for free(proscoutvideo.com)
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Post by Mav on Mar 12, 2006 12:30:03 GMT -6
I agree the standard meaning of 21, 22, etc is for personnel groups, but we use it also to define our 'spread/no TE' formations. We're a traditional Pro, Slot, Wing formation team and we use the numbering system as follows - the digits in the numbers define how many wideouts are on each side of the formation. Example- 12/21 formation - Instead of the traditional 'Slot Rt Open' we'll call '12'. 1 wideout on the left and 2 on the right. The filpped formation would be '21'. 13/31 formation - Instead of 'Trips Lt Open' we'll call '31' The only other one we really use is '22' for a double slot look. We've found it to be much less wordy and very easy for the players to understand.
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Post by Mav on May 1, 2006 20:36:27 GMT -6
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Post by Mav on Apr 30, 2006 13:14:11 GMT -6
Thanks to all who joined in on Thursday night. Mav, did you tape it? Submitted the video of the cover 4 whiteboard discussion to Google video, but it sometimes take a couple of days to 'verify' it. I'll post the link to the video asap when verified.
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Post by Mav on Apr 25, 2006 19:43:24 GMT -6
I look forward to it also.
I'll try to make it and record the whiteboard. I'll then post the video on Google Video. If anyone sle would like to do this, I can show you how.
Mav
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Post by Mav on Feb 1, 2006 6:54:03 GMT -6
It's originally a Real Player clip (.ram extension)
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Post by Mav on Jan 12, 2006 19:31:08 GMT -6
We use 103, 112, 125, 137, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215 and heavyweight -- up to 275
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Post by Mav on Jan 11, 2006 8:26:59 GMT -6
If they're not already involved with basketball or hockey during the winter, we're big on having kids go out for wrestling. If they're not already involved with baseball or lacrosse during the spring, we promote track.
Year in and year out, the best cut blockers (backs or linemen) are wrestlers. They seem to really have the timing down of when to get low and run through.
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Post by Mav on Jan 4, 2006 14:20:04 GMT -6
I thought that was helmet(actually facemask) to helmet contact -- wasn't sure if it should have been a penalty though. The talkingheads wrongly said it was his arm that hit his head. It was his facemask that made the intial contact. Just look at the video.
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Post by Mav on Feb 6, 2007 10:00:15 GMT -6
The program's called Camtasia written by a company called TechSmith. It's primarily used by Technical Writers who put together computer training sessions. It's quite a slick app. After recording a screen you can annotated, voice over, place a PIP(picture-in-picture), create interactive multiple choice quizzes, import video clips, etc You can download a demo version from their website. www.techsmith.com/camtasia.aspWe use it to record our PowerPoint's to a wmv video file. We had hassles with kids installing and using Powerpoint -- by making it a Windows video there's isn't any downloading or installing. Mav, What program did you use to capture the screen? Is it possible to capture video off of google or utube? Thanks Coach Z
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Post by Mav on Feb 5, 2007 22:28:32 GMT -6
For anyone interested in higher quality video hosting, check out this service. It's hosted by a company called Divx. They make premiere video encoding software. Note: Just like Google Video, you must install a small Add-in to your browser to view the videos. There's isn't a download size limit or time limit. Plus you have the option of downloading the files to your own computer or streaming them. The max wait time after you've uploaded is only 30 minutes -- much better/faster than Google. The only catch is you must encode it to the Divx format before uploading. If anyone's interested, I can provide the app for this. Sample 1- this was a raw DV (avi) file of 700MB. I exported it out of Proscout and encoded it in about 5 minutes to the MPEG4 Divx format -- size went down to 45MB with minimal quality loss. stage6.divx.com/members/480007/videos/1108965Sample 2 - the is scooby's 33 Stack clinic from last Thursday. You can compare to the original Google video posted by tog. The 2 hour 10 minute raw DV file would be almost 30GB -- this Divx file is 55MB. stage6.divx.com/members/480007/videos/1108725
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Post by Mav on Feb 4, 2007 9:24:28 GMT -6
In addition to the 100MB size limit, YouTube has a time limit of 10 minutes for each clip, when using a standard account. Google doesn't seems to have any limits (yet?).
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Post by Mav on Mar 9, 2006 11:27:28 GMT -6
MAV do you know how to do the linking? I use all apps in the suite but not sure how to link certain aspects so that a change in one would reflect in others. For example can you draw in viso, link it to word and/or powerpoint and then make a change to the drawing and it updates in word and/or powerpoint. If so that would save a lot of time for me. Sure-- there's 3 ways to put together data from MS Office apps. 1) Embed - this is the simplest method everyone usually uses. All you do is cut and paste. When you edit the object you're actually using the original app, but it's not updated in the original app. 2) Paste special - use copy, then when you paste it, choose the 'paste special' option. This makes a snapshot or 'image' copy of the original. 3) Link - from the app you're copying to, choose 'Insert' from the menu bar, then 'Object...', then choose the original file. They'll be different options depending on which app you're in, but be sure to choose 'Link'. Play around with it and you'll see how it works.
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Post by Mav on Mar 7, 2006 16:30:54 GMT -6
Excel allows you to use Word, PowerPoint, Pictures, and Video. When you click on them in Excel it allows them to run, eg. PowerPoint presentations become slide shows when you click on the inserted slide and videos that are inserted will run on Windows Media Player. It's true, all Office products have this ability. I think Microsoft calls it embedding/OLE, but of course every user must have each application used installed on their computer. This discussion of whcih Microsot Office product is best always comes up. Truth is, MS Office is a Suite of applications, each doing it's primary function the best -- Excel for spreadsheets/numbers, Powerpoint for presentations, Word for printed docs, Visio for drawing, Frontpage for web, etc The ideal playbook system would use the complete suite and link then all together. You'd have one 'base' application you feel most comfortable with, then if you wanted to draw plays you'd use the Visio app, for presentations you'd link it to Powerpoint, to create a hardcopy playbook you'd link to Word, etc. The best part about this way of doing it is when you make a change anywhere in the playbook, it's reflected throughout each application. This was the original idea behind putting togther a suite of user applications. Now if someone could just package togther a free MS Office Add-on for creating football playbooks we'd be all set. Any takers?
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Post by Mav on Mar 6, 2006 18:08:02 GMT -6
The one simple feature Powerpoint has that Word or Excel doesn't have is the ability to flip the play to go in the other direction.
Draw an offensive with all of the detail going to the right -- then 'group' all of the object and flip it. It looks perfect with everything going to the left. You then can 'ungroup' and make any adjustments.
Not sure why Word and Excel can't also do this??? Of course you can turn it into an image, but you lose all editing capabilities.
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Post by Mav on Dec 15, 2005 20:03:30 GMT -6
If you're using your computers dvd hardware the only dvd software/player that will smoothly go back and forth and various speeds with perfect clarity is WinDVD 6.0 and beyond -(I think they're up to 7.0 now) by Intervideo. Last summer I treid all of the major computer software players and this was the only that was clear. We use our laptop as our player so it works for us. BTW - I emailed Intervideo asking if their software was in any standalone DVD players(hardware) and they said not yet, so it's probably hit or miss.
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Post by Mav on Dec 14, 2005 8:19:25 GMT -6
Add'l info on trading film -- over the last couple of years there has been more and more college conferences exchanging game films digitally using the internet and a central file server. Check out these sites -- www.gamefilmsolutions.com/default.aspxwww.gametapeexchange.com/In reality, it will only work if every team in your league/conference agrees to use the same service. Larger colleges are going to this fairly quickly because they dedicated, highly technical Video Coordinators. It'll take awhile to get to the high school level. Digital editing and storage is step one for HS, then exchanging digital game files will be a natural extension. Alos, along with the actual video file itself, you may exchange other corresponding data such as down, distance,, LOS, etc, Whatever you agree to exchange with your opponent. It'll save a lot of redundant work.
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Post by Mav on Dec 13, 2005 15:51:58 GMT -6
A quick word of caution about going to dvds. The dvd format/codec (mpeg-2) was originally established by the movie studios. The technology was designed to watch a movie from start to finish. Going back and forth at various speeds (like us coaches need to do) was not a consideration. So the quality of the video in slow motion and/or reverse is usually poor/blotchy -- much worse than a good vcr. It all dependant on the player you have. Our league has half the teams exchanging dvds and half using vhs. We load both to our computers disk and view it from there after we discovered this issue. dvd format is great for storage but not so good for film analysis/breakdown.
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Post by Mav on Jun 16, 2007 8:29:19 GMT -6
Our prayers are with Coach Hoeppner and his family. Stay strong Coach!
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Post by Mav on Dec 23, 2006 20:58:23 GMT -6
The list price for DSV is $5,600 for one copy of the software. Nogotiate your best deal. They're usually pretty good at working with you on financing. It's not unusual to spread out the payments over a couple of years. dsvusa.com/A free copy of Proscout at proscoutvideo.com/ --while the deal is still available.
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Post by Mav on Dec 22, 2006 13:06:47 GMT -6
It's true that the Landro has the same basic functionality as DSV, Proscout, etc., but it's a little different than the software based systems, in that it's considered an appliance. A proprietary, one-dimensional appliance has the benefit of being extremely easy to use -- kind of like DSV on training wheels. For coaches who are technologically challenged, this is a great entry level step up from the world of VCRs. That's why you'll never see a coach go from a full featured software system to a Landro. The benefits of a software based solution are almost too numerous to list. so, my suggestion -- if money no object, dsv hands down. if money is a problem, start saving up, get proscout, keep saving up, then buy dsv ... lol Absolutely agree -- I think after all of the many discussions on this board about video editing systems, we finally have a consensus.
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Post by Mav on Dec 20, 2006 22:01:34 GMT -6
The funniest thing about Landro is the infommercial the owner, SaLandro has on the website. Makes Ron Popeil and Billy Mays look like soft-sell guys. It slices and dices.... ;D www.landro.com/Video/LandroDemo.asx
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Post by Mav on Dec 24, 2006 16:46:45 GMT -6
I too used the 'last 10 posts' when I came back to the site.
fyi - if you choose 'search' at the top, then just hit the search button on the bottom of the search page, it'll bring up the last 10 posts.
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Post by Mav on Jan 6, 2006 9:42:31 GMT -6
i wouldn't even put it on my resume. in fact, that thought has never even crossed my mind until i read this post. is this something commonly done in states where a high school coach doesn't have to be a teacher or employee of the school district? to me, that's a non-factor in hiring. You're correct -- it's not necessarily written on the resume. I was referring to 'resume building' in figurative terms... meaning an inexperienced,(usually young) motivated person looking to add quality experiences to his 'accomplishments list'. In the business I'm in, we call this 'resume building'. Oops -- I guess I shouldn't use slang on discussion boards. But it does confirm my initial thoughts that who pays you doesn't/shouldn't matter. But after he asked this, I wanted to be sure I was giving him an informed answer, and there's no better place to get that, than here on this board.
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Post by Mav on Jan 4, 2006 17:06:24 GMT -6
A coach is a coach, isn't it? Maybe I'm wrong but if you're teaching kids football, you're a coach. If you're listing "volunteer" on a coaching resume, it means you were the equal of an equipment manager. Semantics. His question, IMO, is academic Interestingly enough, we recently had a head coach resign in our league because disgruntled parents challenged his resume. He stated he was an asst for 20 years and when they did a background check, the school had no official records of him being hired. Talk about a witch hunt. Does anyone believe there's a pecking order where the asst paid by the school district are percieved to be more important?
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Post by Mav on Jan 4, 2006 15:06:07 GMT -6
I don't know if I understand the question... You can be CONTRACTED by the district....or you are a volunteer (NOT employed by the District). How WE do it, though....is that we fund-raise, seemingly, year-round. We fund raise to buy pizza on game night, jerseys, team trips out of state, 7-on-7 tournaments, hosting tournaments, etc......money handled by the Boosters.... part of that money collected is offered to volunteers after the season in cash. NONE of that matters as far as being a coach...but if you don't want to report the income, you would be a 'volunteer'.... It's done the same way around here - you're either officially hired and paid by the school district or a volunteer who's paid by the fundraising/boosters club. The question is -- Would a future hiring coach look at someone who was hired and paid by the district differently than a volunteer who was paid by the boosters. He's thinking a 'volunteer' position may not look as good on his coaching resume.
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Post by Mav on Jan 4, 2006 14:28:53 GMT -6
How important is actually getting paid by the high school, as opposed officially being a 'volunteer' (at the same pay), being paid by the Gridiron Boosters? I have a young coach who's trying to build his resume asking me this recently. Wasn't sure of the answer. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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