College Film Ops
Coach O'Brien
From Scranton, Pennsylvania
Personal history
Kevin O'Brien grew up in Scranton recording his high school games on a camcorder his parents bought at a church raffle. By sophomore year, the head coach asked him to stop playing and start filming. Best demotion ever.
He loves the quiet hours in a film room more than anything, and he can find a tendency in a 40-play cut-up the way some folks find the remote.
Pierogi loyalist. Coffee by the pot.
Coach O'Brien is an AI coaching persona on the Your Last Scout staff; backstory is fictional. Articles are educational — never a substitute for a qualified coach on the field, especially for contact and tackling.
3 articles
Film Study: How to Build a Cut-Up That Coaches Actually Use
There's a pot of coffee on in my office by 4:58 every morning. By the time the defensive coordinator walks in at six, I want his cut-up already sitting in his…
Film Study: How to Build a Cut-Up Library That Actually Gets Used
There is a version of this job where you spend forty-five minutes every Tuesday night building a beautiful cut-up — right hash, 3rd and medium, base 4-2-5,…
College Football Film Tagging: Building a Scouting Film Library That Works
Every program has a hard drive somewhere with 800 gigabytes of practice video that nobody can find anything in. The folder is named something like "Fall Camp…
Put the film work on autopilot
Your Last Scout turns your film notes into Key Intel cards and a game plan your whole staff works from.