“We may put game film on one screen and a diagram on a second, and perhaps an excerpt from a book we’re using to help teach our students about life on a third,” Day says.
The coaches’ ‘War Room,’ designed for full-staff strategy sessions, includes eight 80″ flat-screen displays and a Christie projector, allowing side-by-side-by-side comparisons of players, game film and play diagrams, plus the ability to watch multiple live games.
“The coaches need to annotate the clips as they talk about them, in much the same way that John Madden would do it on network TV, diagramming the play right over the video,” says Eric Boyd, Systems Integration Manager for CompView.
Coaches use 20″ Planar touch displays in their offices or the 55″ to 80″ Planar touch display to annotate from the front of the room. If they’re explaining new plays or want to show simple diagrams without video, they can draw them up on paper and project them via a WolfVision document camera, or they can create them on their computers or iPads.
The football center also contains powerful audio and video systems to pump sound over loud crowds.
“On game day, crowd noise can be extremely punishing,” says Chris Rogers, CompView’s project manager. “Oregon asked us to install a sound system that could help their players prepare for that experience.”
To acclimate players to game-day noise, each practice field includes six weatherproof loudspeakers supplied by more than 20,000 watts of Crown Audio amplification.
“We have the ability to broadcast actual crowd noise,” says Day, “But five minutes of that makes you want to scratch your eyes out.”
Fitness, team building and motivation
As hard as Oregon coaches work to educate their players, they know that motivating teamwork is crucial to their success.
The facility itself is inviting, with natural light, comfortable furniture, the latest audio, TV and video game systems.
“The technology throughout the facility encourages players to stay here and interact with their teammates, rather than going back to their rooms and hanging out there,” Day says.
In addition to producing game and practice film, the video staff creates inspirational videos on an ongoing basis, shown before and after practice, on game days, on the lobby video wall and on the recruiting website.
The weight room/timing track is state-of-the-art and includes seven 70″ Planar displays that shows training regimens as well as game film, Blu-ray movies and cable TV.
“The staff is big on filming how the kids work out for their inspirational videos and recruiting films,” Boyd says.
CompView also installed a digital signage system with monitors in the locker rooms, hallways and other areas of the facility.
“They develop their own content on site,” Boyd says, “And a lot if it is designed to inspire the players.”
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