Practice Script

Jeff,

I have coach’s office and would recommend as a coaching tool. To be honest, I originally purchased the program for the playbook creator which is excellent for drawing up plays and creating playbooks. The play script/ play cards goes hand in hand with the playbook creator and allows you to enter plays from drawing board into a practice script and is very well organized.

The only critique I have is that it can take a little practice to get good at drawing up the plays, but once you get it you are golden. Also, you still have to draw up any new plays that are not in your database each week. Once the plays are in the database it becomes pretty easy to put them into the script and print them up. If you print up plays with both offense and defense on them it usually requires some manipulation of player position because the offensive plays, defensive fronts and defensive coverage’s are all saved in separate databases. Again, this is pretty simple once you have playbook creator down.

Also, the program has a slideshow option and video editing option that I didn't purchase. I have looked at the slideshow set up and it seems like a good program if you have access to hooking your computer up to a projector or something like that. Basically you would be able to use it as a chalkboard with all of plays in your database right at your finger tips. You can draw on the play sheets with different color pens and I could see how it would be useful if you do a lot of chalk talk and of course have the ability to connect to a projector. I don't know much about the video editing part of the program, but I know it is compatible with most video editing software out there and allows you to draw on the screen similar to chalk talk with actual tape of yourself or your opponent.

Chris

Jeff,

I doubt it will really save you to much time especially when you first get it. You are probably better off saving the $300. Once you get the plays entered and if you are playing the same teams year to year you could probably see a substantial savings in time. As I say that, you and I both know offenses and defenses change from year to year, heck week to week.

Although I will say once you get a good variety of formations and plays entered you will have a pretty good template for most looks you will see and making little changes and adding them to the script really isn't that difficult or time consuming.

To be honest with you I moved to a different school this last year and really didn't use the coach’s office at all. I guess I just forgot about it and really didn't need the playbook program and we just made our own play cards by hand. We used different color stickers for the skill positions on scout O and just told the scout players what color they were to make it easy to identify routes etc.

Kind of wishy washy huh? I should of been a politician.

Chris