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Football Play-Calling Wearable GoRout Raises $500,000, Aims to Have Players See What Play to Run in Real Time
Football play-calling software GoRout has raised $500,000 from Minnesota-based venture capital firm Traction Capital. GoRout ’s product includes a screen worn on players’ waists during practices that visualizes play calls sent by coaches. The company previously raised $1 m…
Read MoreGoRout And Hudl Partner To Enhance Practices For High School, College, And NFL Football Teams
ROCHESTER, MN / ACCESSWIRE / January 3, 2022 / GoRout, the leader in on-field sports wearable display technologies for high school, college, and NFL football teams, is announcing a new partnership with Hudl, a global sports video technology company. “Partnering with Hudl will accelerate GoRout’s ability to fulfill its mission to help every football team…
Read MoreGoRout Offers Social Distancing Football Technology to Help Coaches and Players Practice Safely
ROCHESTER, Minn., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — GoRout, the leader in on-field sports wearable display technologies, provides a technology that will allow high school, college and professional football teams to maintain social distances on the field at practice and provide a safe environment for players and coaches alike. Utilizing GoRout’s technology, coaches can send in…
Read MoreFootball Meeting Technology In High School
Technology invades all aspects of life. Even high school football. “The kids get on their phones now,” said Dunlap coach Brett Cazalet. “They can watch film, they have access to things that in the past kids didn’t have.” Sidelines are filled with computers, tablets, wires, electronics and cameras. All in the name of bringing football…
Read MoreReady or not: At Tulane, it’s time for the scout teams to accept their roles
While the countdown to the season opener is exciting for the top half of a college football team’s roster, the rest of the players have to fight off the letdown of being left behind. The reality of practicing with the scout teams — where third- and fourth-stringers simulate the opponent to prepare the starters and…
Read MorePioneer Athletic Conference 2017 Preview and Team-by-Team Breakdowns
Rams looking for diamond in the rough ROYERSFORD >> Rumor has it that Spring-Ford head coach Chad Brubaker can be seen with a miner’s helmet, flashlight on during practice. In reality, no, this is false, but Brubaker has been mining for something, someone during the 2017 offseason, a diamond in the rough per say. That’s what…
Read MoreStanford, Kansas State Football Teams Sign Up To Use GoRout Wearables
Scott Clarke & Joe Faraoni / ESPN Images Two major college teams will use technology to improve practices this season, and more could soon follow. GoRout , which provides small, wearable screens that enable coaches to wirelessly send plays and information to players on the practice fi…
Read MoreFrom Limo Driver To CEO: The Story Of GoRout And Its Vision To Change Football
Mike Rolih was just a limo driver with an idea. One day, he picked up a passenger who changed his life. An All-State quarterback from Chicago, Rolih was visiting a friend who coached junior college football in Rochester, Minn. — a town just south of the Twin Cities. He was shocked that in th…
Read MoreGoRout puts 21st century tech into the hands of football coaches with Vue system
When it comes time for football players to practice important plays, a lot of time goes by the wayside discussing them rather than actually putting them in action. To solve this problem, the Minnesota-based company GoRout developed technology to improve communication between coaches and the players, so they’re able to spend more time moving. Founded in…
Read MoreNFL Eyes Robots As It Splashes Cash on Tech Startups
As the league continues to grow more and more each year, the NFL continues to explore new ways to not only improve the quality of play on the field, but the quality of how things are conducted off the field as well. With the league’s recent emphasis on player safety, anything presented to them in relation…
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