Hudl- any officials utilizing it?

[HLin NC]

[QUOTE=Brad;870779]We have a great video system for the college conferences and high school chapters that use our scheduling and chapter management software. You can upload plays, do "You Make the Call" surveys, and have officials and coaches upload plays as well.

Everything works directly viewable on mobile as well as within your browser, or you can download the video for offline viewing.

Would love to hear from anyone about what features you would be looking for in regards to video for officials.

The one common denominator that I have noticed with these sports video programs is that they are geared towards the players and coaches ... officials are then added on as an after thought. So, they don't really do things the way we want them too.

Any feedback, thoughts, questions, comments, etc. are welcome — post here in this thread and/or email me directly at [email protected]

Here's the problem Brad. We will be the afterthought, unless a state organization forces the schools to cooperate. The system I would envision would be a central repository of video where that team, their opponents, and the officials who worked that game had access to that particular game. Telestration and bookmarking would be key assets to the program.
Server space and security would be the main issues but I'm sure can be worked out.

Coaches are a paranoid lot and don't want their game video in the hands of others. Unfortunately for them, modern technology has made that attitude obsolete. Anyone could sit in the upper seats of the stands and film a game with a relatively inexpensive camera. They can then take that video and distribute via any number of methods, including YouTube. You would have to get the older ones out of that mindset.

Your issue will be overcoming already established programs for video exchange and scheduling. While merging them into one powerful set of software would be cool, getting schools to want to change with the only selling point being that the officials can have access too will not work. They could care less.


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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

Coaches are a paranoid lot and don't want their game video in the hands of others. Unfortunately for them, modern technology has made that attitude obsolete. Anyone could sit in the upper seats of the stands and film a game with a relatively inexpensive camera. They can then take that video and distribute via any number of methods, including YouTube. You would have to get the older ones out of that mindset.

Your issue will be overcoming already established programs for video exchange and scheduling. While merging them into one powerful set of software would be cool, getting schools to want to change with the only selling point being that the officials can have access too will not work. They could care less.

Many of the college teams have rules where they have to share their video and systems like Hudl has allowed that to happen. And football this is more acceptable to share than basketball for sure. We get video all the time in football all the time but it is like pulling teeth on the basketball side.

Peace

[bcl1127]

A couple of teams around here in Chicago used HUDL and rather than send us a DVD of the game film, they gave us access to the HUDL game film. Don't know how it worked, but we just got an e-mail saying that we had access to the games.

[eyezen]

On the basketball side of things...in one conference I work the GLVC makes all games involving all conference teams available through a similar site called gametapeexchange.com

It has an official's section and our supervisor provided us with a username and password that we use to access the official's section.

One would think that HUDL would be able to make it as easy, if nothing else to stay competitive.

[HLin NC]

gametapeexchange offered a free trial service through USA Football and I think they have or had ties to USA Football. I gave it a spin a few years back but didn't find that version all that impressive. Uploading video to share took a while as I remember.

[eyezen]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

gametapeexchange offered a free trial service through USA Football and I think they have or had ties to USA Football. I gave it a spin a few years back but didn't find that version all that impressive. Uploading video to share took a while as I remember.

That could be..I know nothing of uploading or sharing video because as an official thats not what we do...thats what the teams do. Besides uploading video is very dependent on the connection of the user and came be time consuming regardless of program used.

My point being is at least from the standpoint of an official, gte at least has delineated the role of official as separate from all others. We log in and can grab games that we are allowed to.

Its seems that HUDL, at least from reading this thread and perusing their site, doesnt have at this time a delineated role of official and you have to obfuscate that by masking as a recruiter or exchanger or something similar.

I have no horse in either product, just making the observation.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by eyezen

That could be..I know nothing of uploading or sharing video because as an official thats not what we do...thats what the teams do.

More and more officials are uploading video —*but the main difference is that officials upload PLAYS. Only coaches and players want to be able to see the entire game.

A lot of officials are now are using video software on their computers to extract certain plays from games to upload to officiating sites to share with their coordinators and communicate about the play.

You are right that the needs are definitely different —*and I've found that a lot of these sports technology companies are geared only towards coaches and players ... and then add on officials as an afterthought, but with no differentiation in what they offer, even though officials have unique needs and will use the software differently.