When Nick Saban was head coach at Michigan State, he was intent on increasing spending for the school’s football complex, and facilities for the players more broadly. One victory for the then on-his-way-up coach was that he secured funding for five desktop computers that the Spartan players would have access to. Keep in mind that that this was the 1990s. Computers were expensive then.
Nowadays the purchase of five computers at MSU, Alabama, or for any football program would be laughed at. Don’t you know, most 18-year olds today have supercomputers in their pockets that would make the desktops provided by MSU boosters a quarter of a century ago appear rather dated by comparison.
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