New Idea for Diaries

suckers fell for it too.

but as professionals, they shouldn't need to watch Wisconsin's last 3000 snaps multiple times to understand tendency.  I mean, after all, they are professionals. 

A couple months ago, I had to go see a gastroenterologist because I had blood in my poop.  I know, too much information.  Bro asked me to drop my trousers and examined my nether parts.  Said "I have no doubt in my mind your . . . condition (for which I think he meant bloody butt burps) is secondary to a fissure.  But, we gotta scope you."

After the scope, my entire 'chute is clear, save the fissure.

He didn't need to watch me crap 3000 times to know what was up. 

I think that you'll find what you can glean out of watching a network broadcast of a game is not even close to what you can see in game tape.

The network broadcast is a nice presentation visually.  It also has a tight focus on following the ball.  In many times, this is detrimental to game tape.  You don't see the drops and coverages.  You don't get to see that Stonum likes to make a double move on his fly and post patterns.  You don't see what Roundtree does to indicate that he's about to make a cut.  You don't see Koger release to lurk in the flat.*

What you do see is Robinson booting right, seeing a wide open Koger and Stonum, and reading Top to Bottom, then completing the pass.  You don't see why he's reading top to bottom, or if that's his tendency.  You don't see how those receivers got open, you just see that they're open.  Maybe if you have a good announcer and technical crew you can get the money shots, but even then, you don't know if that happens all the time or just some of the time.

My point is that each coach devotes at least double the time that Brian does on a UFR to film study.  Beyond that, each player also sits in the film room to grade their performance and watch for tendencies that their individual assignment has.  Taylor Lewan can probably tell you all about how Adrian Clayborn likes to dip his shoulder when he's thinking about making a swim move.

If your 9 coaches, 2 grad assistants, 80 scholarship players, and 40 walk-ons didn't notice it, but a random blogger notices that Nick Toon likes to clap his hands 3 times when he runs a slant route, your football program is well and truly fucked.

*All of these tendencies are completely made up.  Or are they?  Chances are that nobody on this board knows.