UDub Using LSU’s 2019 Summer of 10,000 Catches

We invented practicing catching the ball

This is the secret to having the greatest season ever. Not sure why we don’t just do it every year.

Does LSU stll do this? I feel it should be required

Everybody also stole The Griddy as a TD dance

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This is embarrassing. LSU did not invent that. It has been around forever.

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The process was two-fold. First, Marucci tracked every pass from the 2018 season and created a “receiver spray chart.” He tracked receiver head rotation, route flow direction, depth of throw, and whether or not the pass was contested. “It was painstaking,” he says, “but I was trying to confirm the data.” He needed more data, though. So Marucci brought in a specialist in eye-tracking technology who outfitted the players with specialized, $14,000 glasses equipped with two cameras: one tracking what the players were seeing, and the other tracking their pupils. One summer day inside the LSU Indoor Practice Facility, 15 LSU pass catchers ran 48 seconds worth of routes shot on cameras recording at 180 frames per second, giving Marucci 129,600 data points to work with. With that data, they could determine the smallest of causes and effects. They could tell which receivers struggled to keep their eyes locked on the target moving from left to right, or which ones overshot the ball with their eyes moving right to left. And as one player ran routes, another watched as the data poured in, seeing in real time who was most successful and how.

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This article makes it sound like LSU was the first to do a number of experimental things that weren’t just catching 10,000 balls.

From the $14,000 glasses, the tunnel-vision-inducing goggles, the swinging doors and the eye tracking data Marucci incorporated, I don’t think they copied anything other than the name and maybe the concept.

I never liked Washington (the state).

Probably some of the rudest people in the nation come from that state.