Throw Away the Play Book

Technology is making an impact on sports every day. And the latest program to take advantage ...  More »

Technology is making an impact on sports every day. And the latest program to take advantage is the University of Mary Football team. They're throwing away their old paper playbook and using something else instead. Drawing up plays on the board are long gone for the U-Mary football team. Chris: It's fairly user friendly easy to use it's kinda fun actually too to build it. The secret, really isn't a secret at all. Duncan: All it is is power point you just copy and paste you can type in stuff you just do circles and arrows and it actually has anImation feature where all the little letters move around um it's actually pretty cool. All the plays are now being drawn up and shown on the computer. Chris: It's night and day as far as being that much better than a paper play book or me gettin on the board and having them write their own play book they can at the same time still write the play book down on their play book on paper but you're gonna capture the mind with this type of technology. And the options are endless. Chris: And then you can also click if you want all of them to move at once and then there are some slides that we have where we have half of the offense moving where we click where we choose to have them move and then we have to click it again to have the other half of the offense move so when you're teaching you can teach it in halves or wholes or however you want you can really custom fit the program how ever you want. Fisk and Mclean locked themselves in the classroom for about two weeks plugging in all the plays, but to them it's worth it. Chris: Two weeks of work to get a play book like this where the kids will learn better from is really no time at all when it comes down to the small amount of time that you have in the preseason when you have time to get ready for your first game every year it seems like it's getting smaller and smaller. As far as they know, no other school is using power point for their football program. The team will customize a weekly playbook from the main playbook to prepare for each individual team. The Marauders season opener is in just 44 days at home against Northern Sun newcomer Augustana.  « Less