Any separation that previously existed between athletes training and sports clinicians is going away. The overlap between injury prevention, injury rehabilitation and the impact both things have on athlete development is too great to ignore. At this point these profession cannot afford to just co-exist. They have to collaborate.
The next set of sports silos to go away should be whatever prevents the data analytics groups from from working with the athlete performance groups. Since both these groups work closely with coaches and players, those guys will need to be involved as well. One big tent, everybody make room.
Lots of articles examine sports leaders’ decision making and how well their teams function as teams:
Lionel Messi with Guillem Balague: ‘Barcelona organisation trumps individual talent’ (Sky Sports)
Matt Patricia, Belichick’s Rocket Scientist (The MMQB, Tim Rohan)
Sam Hinkie: After The Process (SI.com, Chris Ballard)
Seattle Sounders finding success with balance and resilience after season of extremes (ESPN FC, Jeff Carlisle)
Bridging the Gap: Improving the Coach-Analyst Relationship (Part 1) (Dr. Bill Gerrard, Winning With Analytics blog)
James Franklin’s Outstanding Hires Make Him a Big-Time College Football Coach (VICE Sports, Kevin Trahan)
Franklin discusses individual awards, valuing analytics (Centre Daily Times, State College PA)
Will English football coaches produce losers by focusing on fun over results? (The Guardian, These Football Times, Alex Clapham)
James Franklin’s success at Penn State is an interesting contrast with the failure Sam Hinkie experienced with the Philadelphia 76ers. Franklin has been lauded for his hires, but he also deserves credit for recruiting and then integrating a diverse collection of talent. Hinkie is much more about Hinkie, and his staff was talented but universally aligned with his “process” and dedicated to following it. In order to assemble a team where the sum is greater than its parts, it is important to have parts that aren’t all the same.
More things that I read and liked last week:
Will English football coaches produce losers by focusing on fun over results? (November 28, The Guardian, These Football Times, Alex Clapham)
Franklin discusses individual awards, valuing analytics (November 30, Centre Daily Times, State College PA)
Get-Right Day: NFL players detail their painful, gritty post-game recovery routines (December 04, SI.com, Greg Bishop)
Sources: Jones looking to past, NFL for strength coach (December 02, Vols 247)
Kings Strength and Conditioning Staff Push Technological Boundaries (December 01, Sacramento Kings)
Cortazzo helped transform Pryor into monster (December 04, Toledo Blade)
James Franklin’s Outstanding Hires Make Him a Big-Time College Football Coach | VICE Sports (December 04, VICE Sports, Kevin Trahan)
Player tracking technology: half-full or half-empty glass? (December 03, Martin Buchheit)
Measuring Psychobiosocial States in Sport: Initial Validation of a Trait Measure (December 01, PLOS One; Claudio Robazza et al)
Are we a step closer to being able to measure football IQ? (December 04, The Guardian, Sean Ingle)
Injuries in the Post-Probable Era (December 02, Football Outsiders, Zachary O. Binney)
“How do you feel?”- Understanding What Athlete Feedback Tells Us (December 04, Steve Magness, Science of Running blog)
SFU Six introduce wearable technology to track hockey metrics (December 04, The Nelson Daily)
Can Pro Athletes Use Medical Marijuana? | L.A. Weekly (December 02, LA Weekly)
[1612.00738] Action Recognition with Dynamic Image Networks (December 02, arXiv, Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
Bridging the Gap: Improving the Coach-Analyst Relationship (Part 1) (November 30, Dr. Bill Gerrard, Winning With Analytics blog)
Elite Football Player Engagement with Performance Analysis | The Video Analyst.com (December 01, Rob Carroll, The Video Analyst.com)
Walk This Way (December 01, American Fitness Magazine)
Scientists: football has changed dramatically (December 02, ScienceNordic)
Earlier NBA opener likely coming in new CBA (December 02, ESPN, Marc Stein )
Seattle Sounders finding success with balance and resilience after season of extremes (December 03, ESPN FC, Jeff Carlisle)
When Larry Nance Jr. got his springs back (December 03, ESPN NBA, Baxter Holmes)
MLB analytics guru who could be the next Nate Silver has a revolutionary new stat – CBSSports.com (December 01, CBSSports.com, R.J. Anderson)
LeBron James: SI’s 2016 Sportsperson of the Year (December 01, SI.com, Lee Jenkins)
Denver Nuggets Wilson Chandler vegan diet, injuries (December 01, SI.com, Ian McMahan)
AF partners with OSU for stress evaluation, recovery methods (November 30, U.S. Air Force, Jaclyn Knapp)
The Europa League can affect domestic form, but there are other factors at play (November 30, ESPN FC, Gabriele Marcotti)
Sam Hinkie: After The Process (November 30, SI.com, Chris Ballard)
Mind Over Body: Playing in the N.F.L. at 38 (November 30, The New York Times, Ben Shipgel)
How one MLB player is using Rapsodo pitch analysis technology to revive his career (November 29, SI.com, Tom Taylor)
Matt Patricia, Belichick’s Rocket Scientist (November 29, The MMQB, Tim Rohan)
Bruce Arena Outlines a New Vision for the U.S. Team (November 29, The New York Times, Sam Borden)
Lionel Messi with Guillem Balague: ‘Barcelona organisation trumps individual talent’ (November 29, Sky Sports)
How college soccer helps the U.S. women’s national team win World Cups (November 29, Excelle Sports, Tim Nash)
How Weight Affects Your Race Times (November 28, Runner’s World, Amby Burfoot)