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Dartmouth's Mobile Virtual Player is the subject of a column on Denver's Mile High Huddle Scout site that includes previously posted video footage of the device in action along with several recycled interviews including one with Buddy Teevens and one with Will McNamara. (LINK) Writes the somewhat skeptical author of the piece:
I watched it speed across the field and my only thought was, “Great - but they make lots of simple robots that travel and spin. How does that carry over into getting a quality practice experience?”
It also occurred to me that Dartmouth isn’t exactly an SEC powerhouse of a team. Do they get the same level of training with the robot that they would against another human player? The players said that they did. A quick check had Dartmouth’s last 4 season’s records.
2012: 6-42013: 6-42014: 8-22015: 9-1
They haven’t tackled live in 7 years, but their record was anything but that of a pushover team.
•That was the first time I had to step off my initial, uninformed reaction.
The well-traveled Kevin Lempa, a defensive coach at Dartmouth from 1991-96, is leaving his third stint at Boston College to serve for the second time as defensive coordinator at Hawaii. He was at Columbia in 2012. Find a story about his hiring HERE.
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Happy New Year all!
