Thursday, April 12, 2007

Out with the binder training manuals, in with the video clip library

CSM describes how super h+tech is taking over college sports, particularly football. The article by Chris Gaylord is entitled "Tracking athletic talent from every angle - College sports teams now use complex and pricey computer video systems to help learn opponents’ weaknesses and overcome their own" (Apr13,2k7).

The idea of he-man sports amateurs, intramural and intercollegiate, seems to have been obsolesced by the idea of college sports as a professional route, like an apprenticeship but still bestowing the status of BMC (Big Man on Campus), a route to earning a fortune in professional sports as such.

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