Since the dawn of baseball, sign-stealing has been a way for teams to get competitive advantages. But with technology, there are perhaps more ways to get a leg up, although the NCAA doesn’t allow for the recording of signs during games.
However, Texas A&M head coach Jim Schlossnagle accused an unnamed SEC school of doing just that.
Schlossnagle appeared on TexAgs Radio and discussed the topic of using technology to steal signs and said a team has a live feed of the dugout to decode opposing teams’ signals. He compared it to the way Major League Baseball avoids that situation, but noted how much it costs. But the way MLB does it allows players to have iPads in the dugouts – something that isn’t allowed at the NCAA level.
“Major League Baseball has its own portal system that each team is bought into,” Schlossnagle said. “Each team gets the same exact stuff, but they cannot – there’s a way for them to block a live feed to the dugout. Well, that costs money. It costs a ridiculous amount of money. College baseball doesn’t have that kind of money, even in the SEC.
“So where do you draw the line? I mean, there are ways we could wire our dugout to get the live feed. And there’s a school in our league that got busted – I don’t if people know it yet. I’m not gonna reveal it. But they know, they’ve had a live feed going to the dugout all year. And they’re hitting .306 at home and .206 on the road. I don’t know. So to me, that would be the line. Somehow, the technological line, keeping live information from going directly to the dugout.”
This story will be updated.
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