Question of the Day: Is Training Camps and Scouting worth it?

[Reginald Rutledge]

The grueling OTAs and training camps. The hours and hours of going through bases and charting their performance. The strength test to determine who will be on your lines. The passing drills and running drills, all a part of creating a champion. The time invested is something you can never get back but is it worth it?

In preseason, you go watch teams play and chart information. You head home and put that information to a computer for notes. You look at league stats and study trends, tendencies, and weaknesses. In the game, after a read and react situation, you adjust that safety to come up and make a play. The question becomes, "Did he make that play?" If so, was that PURE luck or months of training camp and knowing how your players run.

When I told an onlooker how my back would run, and it happened, he was amazed. For me, it was business as usual as this is the norm for any average miniature football coach. Is this type of attention to detail important to you?