[Panther Thunder]

With Hudl becoming mainstream, "written" scouting reports are a thing of the past IMO. For those of you that have Hudl, you know what I mean. For those of you that don't know what it is; it's the football film editing, scouting, recruiting, etc KING of the football world.

Scouting reports on steroids can be generated through it. It's taken the high school, college and pro football world my storm.

Written scouting reports, IMO, are one of the bottom things on a totem pole to make successful programs (however, coaches need them). It's one of those things that "look good", and is popular to say, but thats about it.

Many of these successful coaches who didn't manually make 40 copies of 20 page scouting reports to hand out to their kids/teams, were great at implenting scouting reports during the week through practice through things like Defensive/Formation Recognition on Monday's and during Team periods throughout the rest of the week.

Like I said, IMO, they "look good"...about like High School coaches who have the color coordinated, excel spreadsheets for they play sheets. Either dangling from their belt loop or on wristbands. A lot of fans see that, and think that means something...like instant credibility. "Well, they print out 20 page scouting reports and have these very detailed, organized play sheets. They can coach!" Wrong. It takes a lot more than just looking the part.

Now, I know great coaches who do the above, but I also know more that aren't....but, they sure make it look like they know what they are doing.

Hudl is unreal.