🏈 Another "toy" in the proverbial football arms race—this report featuring UCLA...

[TerryP]

...but goes on to mention Tennessee and Carolina have already implemented these recording devices.

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super...wait, no, just another drone hovering above a college football practice field. Those attending UCLA's fall camp have noticed a new toy in the sky above Jim Mora's drills: A flying camera recording the proceedings:

The Bruins are not the first school to bust out the aerial devices in advance of the 2013 season. Here is North Carolina touting their new remote-control camera earlier this month:

And Tennessee was on top of things during spring practice, showcasing this back in April (using Vine for even more extra credit):

When you consider the technological arms race happening in college football, it's surprising more schools haven't adopted drone-mounted cameras to record their practices and give coaches new angles to work with in the film room. They're relatively cheap (for major college football programs, that is), safe and easy to fly, although you do have to take into account the urge of many Americans to shoot them out of the sky. (Seriously, some areas might start offering drone hunting licenses.) Adventure filmmakers have been using them for action shots in adverse conditions, so why not bust them out for a different angle of your alma mater's play-action pass during practice?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...ing-drones-practice-190643125.html#more-31407

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In cast you missed it, here's an earlier discussion on how teams are going digital with their playbook.

Using one of these drones the possibilities for breaking down practice film seem endless.

 

[bamafan4ever]

That's pretty darn cool!

 

[planomateo]

Interesting that they couldn't afford to pay their assistant coaches (per Neuheisel) for years and now can afford these things.

When winning schools start doing this then maybe its worth doing.

 

[bamafan4ever]

Interesting that they couldn't afford to pay their assistant coaches (per Neuheisel) for years and now can afford these things.

When winning schools start doing this then maybe its worth doing.

LOL! Ouch!

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

I could of sworn I posted about this earlier in the year but apparently not. Those things must be on a rent-to-own program at Tenn :bluebiggrin:

 

[FlaBama]

What can be used as a practice aid, could also be used to spy on other's practices. COUNTER MEASURE: Bring on the early warning radar systems. COUNTER-COUNTER MEASURE: Redesign the drone into a stealth model.

 

[beachfinder]

What can be used as a practice aid, could also be used to spy on other's practices. COUNTER MEASURE: Bring on the early warning radar systems. COUNTER-COUNTER MEASURE: Redesign the drone into a stealth model.

Auburn's got a GO PRO on the end of long cane pole fishing rod... They get some great areal shots too... (G)

Larry

 

[TerryP]

I could of sworn I posted about this earlier in the year but apparently not. Those things must be on a rent-to-own program at Tenn :bluebiggrin:

If you did I missed it...which makes me tend to believe you might have and I missed it. :bluebiggrin:

The one thing I'd like to know is how well these do in windy conditions. Are there warnings on the box that say "RECOMMENDED up to 10 MPH winds (sustained?")

 

[bama alum]

Interesting that they couldn't afford to pay their assistant coaches (per Neuheisel) for years and now can afford these things.

When winning schools start doing this then maybe its worth doing.

Nah, then there'll be a nzaa rule stating that this isn't equitable to all schools, so it'll get banned... :icon_rolleyes:

Auburn's got a GO PRO on the end of long cane pole fishing rod... They get some great areal shots too...

:rofl::rofl:

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

If you did I missed it...which makes me tend to believe you might have and I missed it. :bluebiggrin:

The one thing I'd like to know is how well these do in windy conditions. Are there warnings on the box that say "RECOMMENDED up to 10 MPH winds (sustained?")

No no I didn't post the link. It was a local TN news story when they first got them. It was a funny article because the shot they used for it had this fancy new-age gizmo tech flying around such a dump as Neyland in the background. :lol:

I have no idea how well those things behave in wind. I had an RC airplane once and the wind took that sucker straight to the ground

 

[RollinInPcola]

They are pretty stable in the quad copter format, even in a bit of wind. They use them to record RC races at times.