Hudl playbooks is now available. I noticed in my last login to Hudl the new "coaching tools" tab, and Hudl Studios was on it with a new video of what they offering. Hudl now makes preparation for practice much more efficient with their easy to make scripts and practice plans. This will be especially helpful when my time will be better served grading Catcher in the Rye essays, like I am right now. Check out the video below!
Hudl, designed originally for football, is now in the process of improving its technology for basketball. Hudl allows a manager, parent, or JV player for the team to input information about the game as it happens via a smartphone so that when the game is over a coach can have an immediate breakdown of the game. This is a big advantage over football, where Saturday mornings are consumed with inputting data from the game on the computer. Hopefully, this will help me be more aware of how I can do this same thing with football. Over the weekend, I attended the Glazier Clinic in Irvine. The Glazier Clinics are held nationwide and were created by former collegiate head coach Frank Glazier. The clinics are held in 34 cities throughout the country and feature NFL, college, and high school presenters who discuss various schemes, techniques, and fundamentals in the game of football. A quick browse of their website (http://www.glazierclinics.com/) will give you a sense of how well respected the Glazier Clinics are. On my most recent experience at the Glazier Clinic, I listened to college coaches from UCLA, Oregon, Arizona, and the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals speak on variety of topics. The insights into the game are very beneficial for a young coach like me, and I had a similar takeaway to the one I had a few weeks ago at the 2014 CATE conference.
The best thing about the Glazier clinic is that by purchasing a season pass, you have access to unlimited football content on their website with presentations from previous clinics and even eClinics that occur during the offseason. Glazier's company slogan of "Football Education 24/7" is seen no clearer than in the amount of material that is on their website. In order to run their eClinics in the offseason, Glazier has partnered with Hudl so that they can stream a clear and easy to follow picture across the Internet. I have found these eClinics to be very beneficial in terms of expanding my knowledge of the game. At the clinic over the weekend, Hudl also had a table with other vendors offering their services to any high school who is not already onboard with Hudl. Together, Glazier Clinics and Hudl have formed partnership that takes full advantage of our online world today. In fact, the coach from Arizona I listened to said they have their incoming recruits who are still seniors in high school watching spring practice on Hudl so that when they come to camp in the Summer they are a little bit closer to being all the way up to speed. |