It wasn’t that long ago that football players carried around bulky playbooks filled with hundreds of sheets of paper with plays on them. Now the players are given an iPad – a computer that is the size of a small book – with all the plays. It's also a multimedia experience because the play charts also include video of that play, notes from the coaches, and any notes the player makes.
When Halberg was at Oregon State they still printed playbooks for each of the players and coaches.
“When we came here it was my first time using the iPads, and it was life changing for me,” Halberg said. “When I was at Oregon State we’d have a paper jam, and I couldn’t fix it. We’d have to take 75 binders and put them on desk chairs and wheel them across the street to the other athletic office to use their copier, and then wheel them all back and fix the playbooks, all at 11 p.m. or midnight.”
