W
isconsin's video coordinator,
Joe Krabbenhoft, will begin
setting up in the meeting room
about 35-45 minutes before
the players and the coaches are
scheduled to arrive.
As a blue collar player, he carried a lunch pail. As
an aspiring basketball coach, he now carries a laptop computer and portable video screen in a tubular travel case.
At Michigan State, the Badgers convened at 4
p.m. in University C, a small partitioned-off ballroom in the team hotel. The Michigan Schools Public Relations Association was next door.
At Penn State, they met at 7 a.m. in Library 2/
Boardroom 2. A viral environmental group was
also booked into the Toftrees Golf Resort and Conference Center on the edge of the campus.
On game days, the scouting report is delivered
five hours before the opening tipoff; one hour before the team's pregame meal. That will be the case
Friday in Chicago during the Big Ten Tournament.
"We didn't watch any video when I was in high
school,'' admitted Krabbenhoft, a native of Sioux
Falls, S.D. "When I got to Wisconsin, it was all new
to me and I was really intrigued. It was like, 'Oh,
wow, you can get better learning all this stuff.' I just
had no idea. But I thought it really prepared me.
"When we went out on the floor, I felt like I knew
everything the other team was going to do,'' added
Krabbenhoft, who played in 136 games; a school record shared with Jordan Taylor. "When they would
make a signal, a chest tap; or they'd yell out a play,
we had already seen it and talked about it.''
In his role as a video coordinator, Krabbenhoft
is responsible for collecting and organizing the the
clips ― ranging anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds ―
that have been earmarked for the scouting report.
"We didn't watch any video when I was in
high school,'' admitted Krabbenhoft. "When I
got to Wisconsin, it was all new to me and I
was really intrigued. It was like, 'Oh, wow,
you can get better learning all this stuff.'"
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