Is it advisable to implement technological developments in sports? Coaching techniques have undergone drastic changes as sports have become more competitive and as stakes have increased. Today, coaches are paid as well as top players because they perform a very important role.
Further, experts like sports psychologists and sport nutrition experts are invited to work with the team to help it perform better. There are many who treat such coaching innovations as a waste of time. On the other hand, there are others who feel that running a team that competes for the highest stakes in any sport is no different than running a multi billion dollar organization.
The value of a team is not judged on the basis of the total prize money that it wins. It is also based on the brand recall and the goodwill that it generates. In such a scenario, it would not be incorrect to say that the value of any top ranking sports team in America today will run into a significantly large sum involving millions of dollars.
When people employ professionals and highly qualified individuals for various tasks in corporate organizations, why should the same approach not be adopted in sporting teams? Well, the biggest complaint or criticism behind the latest scientific methods of coaching is the utter helplessness of the position of the coach.
There have been innumerable instances where fantastic ideas by the coach were implemented very poorly on the field causing great embarrassment to fans and the team owners alike. To use technology to improve the way in which the game is played is one thing. However, to focus on technology when coaching is not going to make a huge difference.
At the end of the day, player performance matters. In such a scenario, people point out that comparing a coach with a patron or chairman of a corporate organization does not make sense.