Lady Tiger basketball video gets huge assist from nation's best in Doug Aucoin
BOB STARKEY: There are so many people that make a huge difference in the success of our program that man fans don't know about -- one is Doug Aucoin. Many know Doug for heading up the video department for LSU football -- and he's the best in the business! That’s one reason Aucoin was named last year’s Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate Sports Video Association.
But Doug has mentored us in every phase of the video world from how we video practices and games, put together scouting video and create motivational videos. He oversees the equipment we utilize and gives us tremendous support. Doug Aucoin is a major reason for success at LSU.
To follow is a great story on Doug and his staff that ran recently in 225 Magazine, written by another Lady Tiger fan Lee Feinswog:
When the LSU football coaches settle into their seats for the plane ride home after a game, they fire up their laptops. At their disposal, edited to individual groups they coach, is the entire game they just played.
No waiting. Just watch, learn and grade.
It’s all part of a day’s work for LSU director of video Doug Aucoin and his staff, who take digital imagery to a different level.
For that matter, that’s every day. Because it’s not just after games that the coaches want video to break down. They do the same after every practice. So sophisticated is the LSU system that the indoor practice facility is set up with robotic cameras that feed video right into the editing suite in the adjacent building.
All of which makes it more amazing when Aucoin says, “It’s a far cry from when I came here 14 years ago and they didn’t have a computer in the football office. Seriously.”
For what it’s worth, now the LSU coaches have two computers on each of their desks—one exclusively to watch video—and each was outfitted with an iPad this past summer. Gerry DiNardo may have said it best when he was LSU’s head football coach in the 1990s: that the battle among top-level football schools for facilities and amenities was an arms race.
Trust that LSU is on the cutting edge when it comes to video and its associated technologies. That’s one reason Aucoin was named last year’s Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year by the Collegiate Sports Video Association.
“Doug is one of those behind-the-scenes guys that plays a huge role in the success of our program,” LSU coach Les Miles says.
“Doug’s progressive thinking has helped us revolutionize the way we scout both our team and our opponents from a video standpoint. There’s no doubt he’s one of the best in the nation, and we are lucky to have him at LSU.”
When LSU plays on the road, Aucoin and assistant Brad Mendow are joined by four student interns. They take along five video cameras and various remote editing computers.
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