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DraftGuy
Joined: 23 May 2007
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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: No computers allowed |
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A weird action by college football to ban computers from sidelines:
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=703111
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USE OF COMPUTERS
Computers may not be used by coaches or for coaching anytime during the game or between periods. Also, computers are now included among the items prohibited on the field or in the area. Computers are now included on the list of electronic devices that coaches may not use.
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i think i've seen commercials with computers knocking down players, but i didnt know that much analysis was being done in football. especially during games.
i would hope that we dont ever have to go to this extent in basketball. either to have computers on the sideline or to have a rule saying we dont want them. |
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Mountain
Joined: 13 Mar 2007
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| "On the field or in the area" is understandable though it would be hard to prevent someone watching agame on tv and working on a computer off site from getting information to a skybox staffer or for somebody else to verbally convey it onto the football field or into the halftime lockerroom. In basketball plenty of computer and video work gets done between games. It wouldn't really offend me if were happening during a game but to avoid being too geeky and to add to the immediacy of the drama I can see the league view. Not sure if NBA has a similar policy. |
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mateo82
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't understand the justification for this rule... they don't want coaches making smart decisions on which players are being most effective? Wouldn't the games be closer, and thus generate more buzz and tv ratings, if the coaches had greater access to tools that can help them? |
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Mike G
Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Delphi, Indiana
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Oddly, I was just wondering when a computer would be coaching a team somewhere, at some level. It might be an interim coach or student wielding the device; but just imagine being an opposing coach who loses to the computer-coached team.
A 'coaching' disk would be a lot cheaper than a high-dollar, big-ego coach. It would also be less likely to use racial slurs or profanity, throw chairs, get ejected, etc. A young player might be less intimidated if his playing time were really related to his performance, not to personality quirks.
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