iPads officially illegal:NCAA ruling

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

An athletic director, here in my little corner of Connecticut, asked our local board interpreter if he could use an iPad application, for the coming basketball season, that acted as a scorebook and that was wirelessly connected to the scoreboard. Our interpreter replied that he thought that it was legal but to make sure he would get back to him after discussing it with the NFHS, and IAABO, Grand Pubahs.

Even if this is allowed, I wouldn't want it if I was AD. I'd prefer the "checks and balances" of having the score book and the score board separately operated. Sure, if they differ and you don't know why, you go with the scorebook. But, it's just as often (or it's often enough) that the scorer misses something and is reminded of it only by seeing that the scoreboard has something different.