Game Film Access

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by tnolan

@JRut you've exceeded the use of 'associations' for this month.

I belong to 5 local officials' associations. Three in Illinois and 2 in Indiana. Everyone one of them has some different procedures and standards. We do not have a "chapter" that I hear people use that does everything from assigning to getting paid. We are independent contractors here (by law).

Originally Posted by tnolan

This sounds like what should or could be done here, but is not. The automatic portion may get a bit "spammy" after a while and if you're working 5-6 games a week, you might not be able to catch up...and understandably, I don't need to break down every game. Sometimes there's just nothing to clip.
This is why I think a better option would be a datastore of all the games, accessible to whomever wants them, but only admins and the specific crew.

No need to break down every game in detail. Again I watch videos for situations that I want to review. Often I just want to see body language or situations like the positioning of the crew when making a particular call. The video is for you individually and you do with that video what you wish. But I personally break down a lot of my games because there are things I want to see for myself and improve on for the next game.

I would definitely entertain the idea of being the administrator of the video share if it came down to that. Again, I think getting the schools on board is probably the hardest part. After that, if 10 out of 100 officials actually use and access the video...then that is what it is.[/QUOTE]

It was hard at first to get schools on the basketball side to buy in to sharing videos with the officials. Now it is common and I get most videos requested.

Originally Posted by tnolan

@JRut I could be misinterpreting, but it sounds like you're jumping through a lot of hoops and red tape to get film. So does the IACO have access to all of this film for their "global" training, and then as a benefit provide it to you upon request?

Not any hoops at all. An email to the association contact (different groups have different contact people) and they send them to you directly when the video is sent to them. All I have to do is give the date, schools, and the gender and I get them often within 24 of the request and sometimes less than a few hours. I personally never have to contact the school at all. Now, this is Illinois, a different process in Indiana and harder to get video. But some schools have streaming video from YouTube or some other site and send a copy of the game rather easily.

I am sure they could have access, but no one is going through every game to find things in games. Usually, if someone hears about a situation that might be controversial or a coach reaches out to the assignor and that assignor is aware of the situation at all and might clip up some plays and present them to a group or the crew. But most people are not that technologically savvy and rarely does any game become used unless a person knows how to use video on their own.

Getting the individual games is hardly ever a problem anymore. Football was almost never a problem because video has been a common tool for years to football coaches. Basketball it took coaches some time to get over the paranoia of how it would be used and they did not understand that officials used the video to get better.

Peace