Stanford OC Mike Bloomgren is the biggest techie in college football

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When Stanford started using state-of-the-art virtual reality technology to train its players, no one was more excited than offensive coordinator Mike Bloomgren.

He was intrigued as to how it could help his players, to be sure. But he was also excited to experience and use a new piece of technology for himself.

A screenshot of Mike Bloomgren’s iPhone, from which he controls nearly everything in his house. Courtesy of Mike Bloomgren

Because for as high tech as so many college football staffs have become, there might not be a bigger techie in all of college football than Silicon Valley’s own Bloomgren.

His backpack? It’s typically carrying at least six pieces of technology ranging from Bluetooth speakers and projectors to iPads and portable wifi docks. And that’s not counting what might be on his body — his Microsoft Band fitness watch, his Bluetooth or Jerry Harvey custom-molded earphones.

Google Glass? He bought into that. Even wore it to some news conferences.

And SkyMall magazine, that airline catalog that features electronics with unique (and sometimes seemingly pointless) purposes? He was its biggest fan.

“I know SkyMall went out of business and has now come back in a smaller version,” Bloomgren said. “But I think I personally helped keep SkyMall alive for an extra year. I was a marketer’s dream when I sat down on the planes and would look at that. … I bought a lot of things out of there.”

And now Bloomgren can admit that maybe the floating speaker for his hot tub (which he bought out of SkyMall) might not have …

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