Technology and Your Budget: Hints and Suggestions

NFL teams are spending millions on video technology and complex computer systems. Division I-A teams are spending hundreds of thousands on their own versions of the same technology. So what? What does that mean for NCAA Division II and III, NAIA, junior college and high school programs with limited budgets and resources? Do you find yourself at clinics and conventions walking right past the tech booths and ignoring the tech seminars, afraid you’ll never be able to comprehend and operate such a system, let alone afford one? “A big-time program can make mistakes, so I don’t want to hear what some big-time school is doing,” says Jim Gagliardi, the offensive coordinator at Saint John’s (Minn.) University. “It doesn’t matter what they’re doing because they can go back and correct it. “I’ll give you an example. The University of Wisconsin in Madison put in artificial turf