Scouting Check-Off List and Instructions:
1. Do not
permit your interest to be aroused to the point that you become a spectator.
This will hinder, and often prevent, you from obtaining essential information.
Concentrate on the action that is taking place. It is imperative that all
action on the field be observed. We want to know what the other team does, not
what you think they could or should have done. We want to know what they do,
how many times they do it, and how successful they are. Do not give them credit
for doing or being able to do anything that you have not seen them do.
2. Review any
information that can be obtained from previous scouting reports of this or last
year, and from movies or newspaper accounts. Should the opponent be new to the
schedule, contact some of their previous opponents to see if you can get some
information from them.
3. Before
seeing a team for the first time, try to get information about them from scouts
who have seen them in action. Try not to go completely cold into the first look
at a team. Make an attempt to find out at least the basic offense and defenses
that the opponent has been using.
4. After
seeing a team in action once, you should know the numbers of the players who
are in the game most of the time. This should include any specialists that see
action. Otherwise there is no need to go beyond the first two teams.
5. You should
always be at the game early enough to get settled and organized to observe the
pregame warmup of the opponent. During the warm-up period, observe, appraise
and record the passers, punters, centers snapping the ball to the punters, the
pass receivers, safety men, as well as the kickoff and field-goal kickers.
6. If you are
working with one or more scouts from your staff, plan how you are going to work
together, and divide the responsibility of getting the information desired.
7. Complete
the report as soon after the game as possible, when everything is fresh in your
mind.
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