If only....

[OverAndBack]

THAT would be righteous.

I have a 14-year-old, maybe I can train him.

[davedoc]

In my bag I keep at least one blank recordable DVD within a self addressed padded envelope. If I see someone recording the game, on the field or up in the press box, I will ask them if they will burn a copy for me. It costs me about $2 per for the DVD, package and postage.

It's that simple. This year I was able to hand out 4 DVD's. All but one of them was useful since the guy kept stopping and starting the camera.

[jjrye22]

We also tried to get tape of the games from the coaches - usually didn't get anything, and when we did it was snap to end of play, almost always focusing exclusively on where the ball was.

My association started seding someone to tape some games - and basically tape 5/6 plays focusing on one offical, than on another. Not really so much on the play on the field, as the movements and mecahnics of the officials.
I haven't seen very much of the result yet - it will be used this winter in our training, and to produce some training tapes for the new guys.

I love looking at tape of myself - I can always find things I would have liked to have changed or done better...

James

[OverAndBack]

I have been able to get DVDs/VHS from a couple of schools just by asking the AD and explaining that it would be a useful training tool for our association.

I've put a couple of the clips on YouTube. If I can get my video capture card to work again, I'll do some more.

[wisref2]

I've been bringing tapes with a self-addressed stamped envelope to nearly every game for three years. We get back about 80% of them. Sometimes they include a note - mostly positive - and sometimes they point out a play. When they do that, I always respond to the coach apologizing for a bad call and telling him what we did to learn from it.

[Forksref]

Coaches are paronoid because they want to win, yet they can't control everything that happens, whether it be their players actions or the officials. So...it's easier to look at the officials as the cause of the losses.

We had one coach at half-time imply that we were racist. Yikes, his team was the most disorganized and poorly coached. His team got a bunch of encroachment penalties because they couldn't even line up correctly. Sad, because his players were great kids. They got blown out but still, after the game, some of the players wanted to shake our hands. One of the players during the game said to us, "We don't have any coaches." If they did, they'd have been a competitive team. I applaud the kids for having a good attitude and having fun out there.