At Penn State football's recent Blue-White Game, coach James Franklin and his staff learned a small but important lesson about using tablets on the sideline.
Penn State was among the many college football programs testing new technology this spring, both on the field and sideline. The NCAA approved some significant rules changes recently that will make player communications and real-time play tracking easier. FBS teams will be permitted to outfit one player on the field with a helmet microphone to communicate with coaches. Franklin said Penn State's quarterback and middle linebacker will use the mics.
"We were able to use the iPads today for the first time; wasn't perfect, but there's value in getting some reps of that in Beaver Stadium before the season," Franklin said."We'll do the same thing during training camp. We had the headset technology all spring. Not what we'll have for next year. We only had one on defense and two on offense, is how we chose to use the three units that we got. I thought that was valuable today.
"The interesting thing is, all of this got pushed because of the whole sign-stealing , and for the offenses that are no-huddle, it doesn’t change them at all," Franklin said."Because you still have to get the information to the wide receivers. How do you do that? You signal. Do I think we should have had helmet mics? They’re good changes, but I don't know if they’re necessarily solutions to some of the challenges out there.
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