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YouTube For High-School Jocks
theodp writes "Used to be college scouts had to put in lots of miles to find a hick from French Lick. But thanks to the Internet, athletic recruiters no longer have to traipse out to actual games to find talent. The players are coming to them via links to video streamed from sports-info websites like Student-Athlete Showcase, iPlayers, and GetMyNameOut. The home-video-meets-NFL-Films highlight reels — which parents commission for a fee ranging from $300 to $5,000 — have become a standard component of college applications for jocks (as well as for aspiring actors, dancers, and musicians). One sales pitch: 'Are you willing to risk your child's potential scholarship with a homemade videotape? Remember, first impressions last forever!'"
I wonder if someone could clear it up for someone who isn't an American, what's a 'jock'?
A jock is an athlete, and therefore the bane of every Slashdotter.
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Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
A jock is not an athlete, see here for clarification.
Sigs are for the weak.
Its good to see some original business models coming out. I have grown tired of so much reliance on ad models. Perhaps this Internet thing is here to stay.
Most music schools require an entrance audition, which is best done live. However, if one is unable to travel to the audition, one can submit a video. The Dalhousie University music school (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) says on its website that such audition videos must show one's hands. I guess they don't want someone else to play your audition, eh?
My plan, being a prospective composer, is to also present my audition judges with hardcopies of my piano scores. There are a couple scores on my website, but I'm working on new ones which will be much more advanced than what's there now.
In Canada, the Royal Conservatory of Music publishes music score books of varying degrees of difficulty, and periodically conducts exams throughout the country. When one has learned some songs from the Grade One book, then one can take the Grade One exam and, having passed, move on to the Grade Two book.
The entrance auditions for Canadian music schools are based on the RCM exams; Dalhousie requires one to play Grade Nine material. While I have come a long way since I composed the recordings on my website (they're from 1994), I'm still a long ways from Grade Nine. But I'm very determined.
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I can see that this would be extremely handy in the US, given the sheer size of the country. Parents should take advantage of any method to get their kid noticed. I do wonder however whether some ripoff sites will start charging nieve parents large fees for poorly made or badly placed video's.
A jock is a stereotype of an athlete, which has considerable basis in reality and is a particular feature of American sports and high school culture. Essentially a jock is an arrogant, anti-intellectual athlete. A central portion of the stereotype is persecution of the less socially and athletically skilled but smarter types who hang around on tech websites like this one.
Apparently, in Europe being interested in both sports and intellectual pursuits is socially acceptable. This is not the case in most high schools in America. Since sports are good at making their practitioner desirable to women, and the athletic types get away with persecuting their social inferiors, there is quite a bit of bad blood between academic and athletic types here in the states.
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What kind of bullshit is this: "have become a standard component of college applications for jocks?" I work in a school in a major metropolitan area with many great sports players. I guarantee you that if this was a "standard component" of college applications in any way I would have heard of it before. Why must you stretch the truth? No where near a majority of "jocks" have even heard of this.
Its great to see someone so enthusiastic about producing art, but you didn't respond to the article at all ;) But still, good luck on your dreams!
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But thank you for your kind words.
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You know, I can't help but feel that there's a lot of anger in this post. I was picked on in high school too, but you know what? Having moved on, I no longer harbor anger or resentment towards people who may resemble, by their extracurricular activities, people who picked on me in high school. Above all, I don't resort to the kind of name-calling that reminds one of all too many calls of "NEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDD".
Admittedly Jocks obviously have to have some intellectual capacity, those NFL plays are very complex and all, but isn't it a wapping assumption that the cognitive capacity is there for internet usage? Hell, our Aussie Jocks struggle at tapping kegs, let alone keys...
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.- Shelley
What have you been doing since that Phantom Of The Opera thing?
I worked for a pro sports team and have seen more hours of game film than most slashdotters have sci-fi. Coaches and recruiters look at film and if it looks good, they go and watch them play in person or have them come in for a practice. Film has been used for years in recruiting but it has never been and is not currently the sole decider. Any recruiter worth his salt will not never try and recruit someone based solely on film. Do you really think that don't know that people will pick out the best film or even have it doctored?
A little side rant. Whats with this idea that you couldn't have been an academic in high school while playing sports? A significant number of the 10% of my class played sports, usually more than one. Very few on the other end of the academic scale did anything extracurricular. No they didn't get in the top 10% by taking bullshit classes either as our harder (advanced and AP) classes were weighted 5.0 on 4.0 scale.
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Unfortunately, he's had decades to build his fame, I'm just starting on mine, so it's going to be a long time before my PageRank can crush his.
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However, I have in mind to play the piano arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee for one of my audition songs. I'd say that's at least grade nine material. (If you don't know the piece, it's extremely fast).
To gradually build my speed and dexterity, I play just scales for about an hour every day, and am gradually learning them all - there are twelve major scales, and thirty-six minor scales (natural, harmonic and melodic), one of each for the twelve tones in the western musical scale.
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My cat's musical career didn't last very long - the one time she ever tried to walk on my piano keyboard, the sound scared her and she would never go on it again.
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Where's the site for aspiring p0rn stars?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
'nuff said.
Noell(siq) Devine. I saw him ripping it up in high school on YouTube, now he's playing for #3 WVU. I'm sure most slashdotters don't give a fuck about football, but his YouTube highlight tapes made him hyped-up, aggressively recruited, and somewhat famous.
Consider, for instance, Edwin Hubble: astronomer, lawyer, and quite the athlete. Highlights: "Usually he placed in Big Ten dual track meets, in both the shot put and the high jump. [...] At Oxford Hubble [...] competed in track and field events and swam on the water polo team. He later said he fought an exhibition boxing match against the French national champion, and did well enough that promoters wanted him to train to fight the world heavyweight champion." Also from photo credits: "The University of Chicago 1909 intercollegiate championship basketball team. Hubble is on the left."
I wonder if this is one of those things that changed with WWII? Perhaps the 60s? Or maybe Hubble was an exception, and the problem is older.
Anyone else think that sending in tapes to show how good you are at a sport shouldn't help your chances of admission? Athletics shouldn't matter in an academic environment. I mean, that's like Hawking trying to get into the NFL because he's smart. Oh wait, I'm speaking logically again, I forgot that college and logic don't go together.
It amazes me what can be done with internet technology.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Using my son's highlight footage for a class (VC&D) project and uploading it to YouTube?
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Maybe I should be saving that for scouts....
Either way, the video is dark, but what do you think?
I used to live in French Lick. I moved to Boston.
My Son stated that he desired to play football several years ago. I tried to get him to learn how to operate a computer other than playing games for several years before this. My Wife and I decided that it was something that he brought up and that if he wanted to do it, we will be behind him 100%. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect. I am a youg Dad(he is 18, I am 37) and I really did not blend in well with the other Dads. When this first started I heard that someone stated that they knew someone that was getting a "Full Ride". I had NO idea what it was but someone stated that my son was one of the best players at that age group and that he might be able to get a "Full Ride" one day. I just smiled and nodded. That was his first year playing football in the eighth grade. I was informed that it might help get my son into a college if I were to tape all of his games and create a tape with his best moves. I had no idea how to edit video or which Camera would be the best. So I bought a JVS us-270 and just started filming. After about two years of filming his Coach came up to me one day(most coaches have no personality from my experience, this one did)and stated "Your son has a career in this if he keeps this up Mr. XXXXXX, He is the best I have ever seen.). I just smiled and nodded and did not get my hopes up, but thought to myself that it would be nice. To get to the point, I learned how to edit film on a PC and bought a Macbook because I heard it would be easier. I created the film from just 7 games and sent it to several different schools and put it up on Youtube. I cannot believe that so many would be interested. He started hanging out at Vanderbilt and was actually offered a "Full Ride" From Vanderbilt starting in 2008. It has been a life changing experience. Let me know if anyone actually reads this and I will add the link to his videos.