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University of Oregon Hatfield-Dowlin Football Performance Center Educates and Exercises Students

The University of Oregon reveals its customized sports solution to keeping students pumped up for the field and motivated in the classroom.

August 1, 2014 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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The coaches’ offices contain 20” Planar touch displays in their offices or the 55” to 80” Planar touch display to annotate new plays or review game clips with players. Photo taken by Peter Eckert.

Coaches use the conference rooms to continue educating players about play strategies and watch clips from practice or the latest game. Photo taken by Peter Eckert.

The football center features a weight room, 40-yard timing track, cafeteria and nutrition center to keep students fit and eating healthy. Photo taken by Jeremy Bittermann.

The football center features a weight room, 40-yard timing track, cafeteria and nutrition center to keep students fit and eating healthy. Photo taken by Jeremy Bittermann.

In the lounge area, players can kick back and relax with their favorite video games. Photo taken by Peter Eckert.

The War Room includes eight 80” flat-screen displays for side-by-side-by-side comparisons of players, game film and play diagrams, plus the ability to watch multiple live games. Photo taken by Peter Eckert.

Coaching college football is a tough job.

Somehow, you have to turn raw high school recruits into championship players, while never losing sight of the fact that academics are the most important reason they are on campus.

So when the University of Oregon set out to build a new football center, they knew it had to be a model of efficiency and effectiveness for educating, recruiting, and motivating players while keeping them in shape.

The university’s new Hatfield-Dowlin Football Performance Center opened for the 2013 football season with stunning audio and video systems installed by CompView Audio Visual.

At first look, a 64-screen video wall in the lobby of the six-story center seems the most impressive of these systems. However, it’s the nuts-and-bolts of video distribution, display, control and audio that support the center’s mission.

“Our new center is probably the most effective and efficient building in either college or pro football,” says Jeff Hawkins, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Football at the University of Oregon.

Player education

One of the roles the center plays is educating students on how to play the game of football.

Eric Day, Assistant Video Coordinator for Oregon Football, spends a great deal of his time securing, organizing and helping coaches and players view video clips of games and practice sessions.

For filming, Day relies on XOS Thunder software, which is a widely used platform to edit, organize and display sports videos.

After filming, the end result is a collection of hundreds of thousands of 10 to 20 second-long clips, which coaches use to illustrate the right and wrong ways to execute plays.

The video systems within the Hatfield-Dowlin Center are also designed to optimize the creation and playback of these clips.

Coaches can access film from their individual offices, and coaches and players can view it from computers or iPads outside the building using Hudl, a cloud-based service specializing in sports video distribution.

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Tagged With: Higher Ed, Learning Center, Stadium

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