Jeremy Haymore

Feels like a time wasting drill. What is the purpose of this?

Old school coach memory. Next time you share your dislike for Hudl. Consider this. It’s Friday night, your game film is on VHS. You gotta stack several VCRs together so you can make copies for your team. 6 hours later, 24 copies made. Then you get up the next day to drive a copy across town to your next week opponent. You exchange film. Head home to make more VCR copies to only find out the scout copy was crap. Some jr high kid shot the film. You move forward with making more copies. Then spend your day driving them around town to your starters.

Despite the varying opinions about Hudl, it has undeniably changed coaching. We can tag. Cut. Label. Analyze. But player development doesn’t happen with video alone. It happens in practice. It happens in meetings. It happens in one-on-one conversations off the field. It happens through the feedback we give players, so they turn what we saw into actionable areas of growth. Are there any tools you are currently using (or would like to use) that help make that communication clearer across your program?