• Three Baylor staffers picked to work Super Bowl as ‘Wi-Fi Coaches’

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    Fans attending games at McLane Stadium last fall enjoyed not only a slate of Baylor wins, but also perhaps the best-connected stadium in college football, thanks to a robust Wi-Fi network and a custom app that provided all fans with in-game replays from multiple angles — a first at the collegiate level.

    The same company that installed McLane Stadium’s Wi-Fi System, Extreme Networks, has been tapped to provide analytics and “Wi-Fi Coaches” for this weekend’s Super Bowl XLIX in Arizona. Extreme Networks selected coaches from teams they’ve worked with previously, settling on 19 individuals from four NFL teams (the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers) and one college: Baylor.

    The two Baylor ITS staffers who headed up McLane Stadium’s Wi-Fi system — Micah Lamb, BBA ’02, and Andrew Stripling, BBA ’00 — will be joined by ITS associate vice-president Bob Hartland, BS ’81, MS ’83, as Wi-Fi Coaches at University of Phoenix Stadium this Sunday, helping thousands of mobile users connect to the in-stadium network and utilize the in-stadium applications.

    Sic ’em, Baylor ITS!