Cutting Edge with Jack Marucci: Cognitive Impacts on Athletic Performance
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Podcast listeners: today, we're giving you free insight into one of our favorite projects, available only to subscribers of LSU GOLD.
The Cutting Edge with Jack Marucci is a weekly, premium podcast where LSU's Director of Performance Innovation and longtime athletic trainer takes you deep into the analytics of the current LSU Football team – and, sometimes, deep into the history of the program as a whole – to offer cutting edge insights on how the Tigers are gaining an edge on the opponent through analytics, data, technology, and more.
On today's episode, Jack Marucci and Mario Macaluso sit down with Brandon Ally, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at S2 Cognition, who specializes in how individuals attend, track, and process information in dynamic visual environments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Cody. Welcome to a special edition of The Cutting Edge with Jack Marucci. |
| 0:06.1 | This is the second part of a two-part episode with Jack, with Mario, with myself, and with Brandon |
| 0:13.1 | Alley of S2 Cognition. LSU has done some really cool things with S2 over the years, |
| 0:19.8 | basically looking at the mental performance of its |
| 0:23.8 | athletes and doing baseline testing and figuring out how quickly they can process information |
| 0:30.2 | and how they best process information and really putting a number to that. So we had Brandon on this episode of |
| 0:39.3 | Cutting Edge. The first part is on LSU Gold exclusively. You can watch it at |
| 0:45.4 | LSU.org. Sign up today for a free subscription, but we wanted to make this second part |
| 0:50.6 | available to you for free on this podcast feed. Of course, you can watch it too at LSU.gold. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a really interesting look into how LSU measures the cognitive performance of its players |
| 1:05.0 | and uses that to try to put them in the best situations on the football field and to develop |
| 1:10.4 | them throughout their time at LSU. |
| 1:12.1 | And S2, by the way, now works with a number of programs and sports across the country. |
| 1:18.3 | They test every NFL draft player. |
| 1:20.8 | They're testing numbers on Joe Burrow, which we touched on. |
| 1:22.9 | I can't remember if it was part one or part two of this, but they touched on Joe Burrough's |
| 1:26.8 | cognitive testing, |
| 1:28.4 | which was, you will be shocked to find through the roof. And they were a really cool company |
| 1:33.9 | doing some really cool things. So it was really cool to hear Jack and Brandon and Mario sort of |
| 1:38.5 | dive into how these things work, not only with S2, but at LSU. So without further ado, let me throw it to part two |
| 1:47.2 | of our conversation with Brandon Alley on the cutting edge. |
| 1:54.6 | Brandon, from your perspective, we've talked about this on a previous episode, but when you're |
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