Coaches Show 11/5

[Vapoke]

Tyler Hughes was on last night. Good Interview

Brandon (video guy) was on talking about setting up everything and keeping a video database

Coach said they spend $120k per year on PFF and HUDL videos; they have a monopoly on the business.

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[LanderPoke]

Tyler Hughes was on last night. Good Interview

Brandon (video guy) was on talking about setting up everything and keeping a video database

Coach said they spend $120k per year on PFF and HUDL videos; they have a monopoly on the business.

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Can you elaborate on the hudl and pff videos? What are we paying for that we can’t just film ourselves?

 

[phxpoke]

Can you elaborate on the hudl and pff videos? What are we paying for that we can’t just film ourselves?

These are videos of hs kids all over the country.

 

[East Tennessee Cowboy]

Can you elaborate on the hudl and pff videos? What are we paying for that we can’t just film ourselves?

HUDL and PFF now charge schools to watch film of various athletes across America. it's dumb

 

[TheRealUW]

HUDL and PFF now charge schools to watch film of various athletes across America. it's dumb

While $120k/year seems a little steep, why would they provide the service for free?

I would think the coaches could directly reach out to athletes they are interested in and ask them to submit film directly to them. That's probably a lot more work on both the athlete's end and the coaches end and exactly why things like HUDL and PFF exist.

 

[LanderPoke]

I didn’t know PFF was a recruiting platform now

 

[Vapoke]

While $120k/year seems a little steep, why would they provide the service for free?

I would think the coaches could directly reach out to athletes they are interested in and ask them to submit film directly to them. That's probably a lot more work on both the athlete's end and the coaches end and exactly why things like HUDL and PFF exist.

If every school does this for FBS than $16M is what they are pulling in, I am generalizing this post. I can imagine their overhead is ridiculous as I assume they host these servers in the cloud (AWS/Google) which is very expensive to stream and store pedabytes of videos. Then disaster recovery and high availability make it even more expensive.
$120 is probably cheap for schools

 

[Brew_Poke]

While $120k/year seems a little steep, why would they provide the service for free?

I would think the coaches could directly reach out to athletes they are interested in and ask them to submit film directly to them. That's probably a lot more work on both the athlete's end and the coaches end and exactly why things like HUDL and PFF exist.

Classic rent-seeking behavior. Though I guess some will argue they are innovators, who innovated around emailing or FTP-ing a file.

 

[TheRealUW]

Classic rent-seeking behavior. Though I guess some will argue they are innovators, who innovated around emailing or FTP-ing a file.

Disagree here.

It isn't like HUDL and PFF are manipulating the market or legislation to gain an advantage/monopoly. They have basically taken a long-standing recruiting tool and attempted to make it a more efficient process for the athletes and coaches. You can argue if they have accomplished that or not, but the market has already given it's answer.

As far as I know, there is nothing stopping recruits and coaches from sharing film directly if they prefer. I also don't think there is anything stopping someone from starting up a business to compete with these services.

Sorry for the "speechy" nature of my post. It's just a sore spot for me.