Skills Videos to Send to Colleges

slugger3 said:

When watching deer run have you ever seen a big buck running side by side next to a doe?
The big buck literally looks like he's standing still, even though he's going the same speed as the other deer in the group...
ya...DD1 looks like the big buck when she runs...3.0 speed and looks slow
Or a goose flying 35 mph compared to a mallard flying 35 mph, the goose looks slow compared to the duck
EDIT: objects of different sizes moving the same speed, don't look like they are moving the same speed (at least to me)
So I gotta disagree with ya there

Is that how football coaches gauge prospects? By just watching them run, jump and pass?
No stop watches, no vertical jumping boards, no bench press footage with 225 lbs going up 25 times?
It works for boys/men, so I figured it would work for girls/women. Maybe not?
And if I'm Paige Lowary, I want a radar gun showing 75 mph in my video...daaayuuum...

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College football coaches hold camps and Under Armour/Nike hosts combines where players are measured - height, weight, wing span, vertical jump, 40 yard dash, broad jump, cone shuttle, ect... every player is measured exactly the same way so the data provided can be used to make informed decisions. OnDeck does something similar for softball. If a college coach just asked every high school coach to mail in the stats on their players how useful would the results be? How useful do you think the stats you provide to college coaches really are? Your DD may bat .600 in HS but if the pitching stinks and the outfielders looks like they play for the Bad News Bears how useful is that information to a college coach?

Watch Paige Lowery or Kelly Barnhill throw a pitch and compare it some someone else throwing mid/low 60s and you will see a significant difference. They are both throwing 12" softballs, so I am not sure how the goose vs. mallard analogy works... I would also contend that pitch speed is not the only thing coaches are looking for. A 70 MPH pitch that does not move is a dinger in high level D1.