The last recruiting camp of the season was this past week. It was in Ohio so that was nice to visit home. It has been a camp we have done for a couple of years now but the introduction of the new skills and protocol was also new to this camp.
Because we cannot afford to fly the same strength and conditioning coach to all the camps to run the new skills testing we have to find local people to facilitate that part of the testing. We had secured a guy that works at Ohio State to do the job. He had been informed of all the new measurable items and also been in touch with the other strength coaches we were working with at the other camps.
With it being the last camp and all the resources he had we thought it would be smooth sailing. We were wrong. The way he was having our staff record the measurable was inefficient, slowed things down, and made it really hard for us in the end. We caught on how he was doing it during the first session and were able to correct it for the rest of the day but what was done was done.
I had to have someone run and get more copies of the measurable sheets copied at Kinkos. It took 3 full days at the office to run through all 60 record sheets and put them in an excel file. It was just tedious work but we got the results posted in time and that is what matters. It is good we give ourselves a window to get them up after the camp but the bottom line is all the skills were there and that is really what matters regardless of how long it takes us to input them. It was a bear of a task but I got it done.
Camp season was a success now it is just wrap up stuff to be done and to put some operating procedures in place for the future. It will be helpful for myself, or whomever the camp tasks are assigned to next year. It was sometimes tough doing it blind so if I produce something or guidelines of sorts that will be useful.
Because we cannot afford to fly the same strength and conditioning coach to all the camps to run the new skills testing we have to find local people to facilitate that part of the testing. We had secured a guy that works at Ohio State to do the job. He had been informed of all the new measurable items and also been in touch with the other strength coaches we were working with at the other camps.
With it being the last camp and all the resources he had we thought it would be smooth sailing. We were wrong. The way he was having our staff record the measurable was inefficient, slowed things down, and made it really hard for us in the end. We caught on how he was doing it during the first session and were able to correct it for the rest of the day but what was done was done.
I had to have someone run and get more copies of the measurable sheets copied at Kinkos. It took 3 full days at the office to run through all 60 record sheets and put them in an excel file. It was just tedious work but we got the results posted in time and that is what matters. It is good we give ourselves a window to get them up after the camp but the bottom line is all the skills were there and that is really what matters regardless of how long it takes us to input them. It was a bear of a task but I got it done.
Camp season was a success now it is just wrap up stuff to be done and to put some operating procedures in place for the future. It will be helpful for myself, or whomever the camp tasks are assigned to next year. It was sometimes tough doing it blind so if I produce something or guidelines of sorts that will be useful.