New York Jets: using information technology in professional football

The article cited below describes a number of ways the New York Jets professional football team uses information technology in an attempt to improve team performance.

1. Identify what you believe are the three most important uses of IT that are mentioned in the article.

2. Explain whether any of these uses of IT could actually help the Jets win football games. (Stated differently, although the applications of IT seem real, to what extent is it possible to view this article's unstated message as techno-hype?)

3. If these uses of IT could help the Jets win football games, why would they allow the article to be written? (Wouldn't their opponents just do the same things?)

Source:
Shein, Esther. "Riding Streaming Video to the End Zone," PC Week Online, Feb. 2, 1998
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0202/02video.html

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