Technology Invades College Football

This post is a response to the following article:
http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/story.cfm/story/656629

Technology changes every area of our lives, including our favorite entertainment. In order to view the effect of technology on college football, one only has to look at the television during a game. When I began watching BYU football fifteen years ago, the entire television screen was devoted to the action; the only thing to watch was the game. Soon, however, things began to change. First, a score display chose to take permanent residence in the upper corner, and then the clock decided to reside there as well. If that wasn’t bad enough, it wasn’t long before scores and news about every sport in the country started to flash on the bottom of the screen throughout the game. What used to be a simple display of a football game has become a complex view of all manner of distracting displays! This article about Crowton's use of video games in Louisiana shows that college football viewers are not technology’s only victims. This article suggests that in order to be competitive, coaches will now have to use video game simulations to make sure that their players have experience against their opponents' defenses. Although fans can choose to hate the displays, they have to live with them until the next new technology allows them to personalize their television screen. Even then, players and coaches will probably see no relief; they will have to adapt to new technology just to stay competitive.