After multiple meetings with Rick Hart, UTC's new Athletics Director, I see a new vision for the program here that involves innovative uses of technology.
First, their football program has stolen my summer intern (with my permission and training) to use video more heavily in their training. Michael shoots practice footage every afternoon and edits and delivers DVDs with highlights of various drills for analysis and presentations to the players in the classroom that same evening. This practice will be used more heavily in other athletics programs as well.
Second, the Athletics program will be taking advantage of the web to deliver content to viewers on campus and around the world.
"Fans will be able to choose which team's audio feed they would like to listen to during the games, which also will be archived and can be downloaded onto a portable device, like an i-Pod." The Stamford Advocate
I will be helping to develop a workflow for live production and streaming of games, packaging highlights reels of past and present UTC sports, and delivering in-game entertainment to the jumbotron at Finley stadium and eventually in the McKenzie Arena.
Will keep updating here as we continue this partnership, but as I said to Hart in our first meeting, it's great to finally see someone with a vision in his position.
More here: Small-Conference Football Hits the Computer Screen
Posted by cmwillis at August 17, 2006 11:32 AM | TrackBack