Helmet communication 'much smoother than I thought it would be,' Mike Gundy says

have you and your staff talked yet about pros and cons from Saturday as far as the inh helmet communication having the tablets on the sidelines what worked what didn't work yeah we we had that discussion yesterday and it was all pretty smooth and I'll be honest with you um much smoother than what I thought it would be with all the new technology during the game with so many other things going on the newness of it was a real concern of mine and it actually still is now but we didn't have many glitches and I was pleased with the way that it came through on the first game Could That Could That Be an advantage the especially the first couple games maybe staffs that pick up and have a better system for how to incorporate all that and While others maybe struggle yeah I would you know I mean we we think that what we're doing gives us an advantage but maybe somebody else is doing something better um but we've had long discussions about it for months and so we had a plan going in there's not a lot we F like we want to change there's a couple things that we would alter a little bit for this next game but we think that we have a productive way of using it and facilitating it to the best uh that we can for our players coach the thing that surprised me the most getting to see it down there you know Joe Bob and Timmer T some of the coaches always had one when their guys were over there but there were a lot of times I looked over and it was just players with a pack together that kind of goes you've talked about and I know it's way that way in my house younger people are better at that stuff than yeah were you able to uh go look and see if they were watching YouTube or actually watching they were watch they were watching plays from the last now these kids probably try to pull YouTube up and watch some goofy video uh smart players will go back and continue to watch the game it's it's like taking a cheat sheet into a test so you can go and look and see what all the answers are and then go back out and play just like I had a couple teachers in high school that had a really good approach in teaching they said here's the material that I want you to learn over the next two weeks I'm going to I'm going to lecture on this and I'm going to give you the material with the answers and then we're going to have a test two two weeks from now on Friday and that's probably the best teaching procedure there is in my opinion because whatever material he want wanted us to learn he gave us the answers so who cares so he lectured on it gave us the answers you studied it you paid attention you made an a if you didn't you made whatever was accordingly and in the end you learn the information that he wanted you every two weeks well that's what those tablets do the information's right there in the in the in the tablet so you can look at it and get it it's a cheat sheet to go back out or you can not look at it not absorb the information and go out and figure it out on your own

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