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Saturday morning film session in Oakwood
OAKWOOD — The high school football film session is a unique experience.
Take this morning, Aug. 22, for instance. Oakwood players and coaches gathered in coach Paul Stone’s math classroom to undergo the examination of film evidence from Friday night’s jamboree scrimmage at Minster High School.
In general, the sessions go something like this: Coaches using a mix of constructive criticism and comedy while controlling the rewinding and playback of the previous night’s game. The players squirm while watching the uncomfortable squiggly lines that signify a rewind and then the grinding, slow-motion replay that uncovers mistakes that might have been overlooked in real time. Coaches point out miscues and dole out praise much more conservatively.
With six days left before facing Versailles in Week 1, Stone gathered 23 players and six coaches to watch the 3-foot square screen while holding a gap wedge in one hand a laser pointer in the other. A sampling of some comments:
— (After one play he particularly didn’t like) “This is gonna be one of those years when the other team makes a highlight tape at the end of the year and we’re in a lot of those videos.”
— “If you get yelled at, you can be immature and say, ‘Woe is me,’ or you can learn from it.”
— “Films don’t lie.”
— A player raises his hand to ask a question and mentions he called “Crash” during one play. Stone looks confused. “OK, that’s not good when you use a term that the head coach doesn’t know.”
— (After watching an opposing player, No. 42, make several tackles against an Oakwood player) “Do you have a girlfriend? Well, 42 is your new girlfriend, he apparently liked you a ton.”
— (To one player) “If you had a senior and a sophomore, equal ability, who would you play?”
The answer: “I don’t know.”
“You’re a senior, right? You wanna say senior. Well, guess what. That might not be the answer.”
Teams all over the Miami Valley are going through similar experiences this morning as coaches study the scrimmage tape to determine, among other things, who their personnel will be starting Friday night, who will be playing for the varsity team and who will gain more experience on junior varsity games on Saturday mornings.
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By Dayton coach
August 22, 2009 12:35 PM | Link to this
Well, sumbuck. A story about Dayton football. Keep’em comin’. You want people to keep reading the Dayton Declining News, write about your school sports and not Cincinnati.By Lou "The Toe"...
August 22, 2009 5:10 PM | Link to this
Ya know, been dead for years now…and keep seein’ the same crappy Oakwood football from up here. I get “looked at” by some semi-supreme beings occasionally because I curse when I see football play mistakes that Helen Keller could have picked up on. Speaking of Helen (she’s up here too)…she was watching one day and said the obvious: “I was deaf/”dumb”/blind on Earth…what’s with these well cared for Oakwood kids? Wealth/stability/priveledge make them autistic??!! Being as I was on Earth…if I had Cerebal Palsy AND Parkinson’s I coulda’ done better than these kids!!!!” Helen doesn’t pull any punches… Maybe all you Oakwood players shouldn’t either. Just a suggestion…hey…I’m dead…why should you care about sugesstions for your success from a dead guy!!!!By Former Coach
August 22, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this
Oh, are we allowed to hurt their feelings now?