Goodbye printed sheets of paper, and say hello to the Microsoft Surface.
For the first time in NCAA history, Microsoft Surface tablets will be seen on college football sidelines this fall nearly 40 years after John Madden first used a Telestrator to dissect plays and formations for viewers. The Big 12 Conference and Microsoft announced a partnership that provides each conference member with Microsoft Surface devices.
It has been a common sight on NFL sidelines since 2014 to see players grabbing the device, in its now iconic blue-colored padding, going over what just happened on the field. But it hasn’t been seen before in college football. Until now.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Big 12 Conference for the 2024 season as they continue to innovate in football and technology,” Gabe Rudolph, senior manager of sports partnerships at Microsoft, said in a news release. “We look forward to bringing our joint expertise together to evolve the game and further empower student-athletes and coaches.”
In April, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the use of tablets to view in-game video.
The panel said teams can have up to 18 active tablets for use in the coaching booth, sideline and locker room. Tablets cannot be connected to other devices to project larger additional images and cannot include analytics, data or data access capability, or other communication access. All team personnel will be allowed to view the tablets during the game.
“I mean, it’s like cheating. You don’t have to see the game live. You don’t have to adapt,” ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham said at the Big 12 Conference Media Day in Las Vegas. “I think really what it does is it’s going to create bigger game plans, because before you may be able to get away with something that somebody didn’t see, a twist game, the alignment of…
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Publish date : 2024-07-12 12:01:48
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