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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Notre Dame had a laptop confiscated from its upstairs coaching box in the first half after Michigan State assistant coaches spotted the computer.
"It’s against the rules to have any type of electronic device like that in your box just like you can’t have a replay monitor in there," Michigan State associate athletic director for communications John Lewandowski said. "We tracked down the liaison to the officials and he contacted the officials on the field who went to Coach (Charlie) Weis and they contacted up here and then they came up here and removed the laptop from the coaching box."
NCAA football rules bylaw 1-4-9a states, in part, that "motion pictures, any type of film, facsimile machines, videotapes, photographs, writing-transmission machines and computers may not be used by coaches or for coaching purposes anytime during the game or between periods."
Lewandowski said there was no question the laptop inside the Notre Dame box was on and being used.
"For what, you’d have to ask them what they are using it for but the concern for our coaches is are they tracking tendencies, using historical data from whatever," Lewandowski said. "It took us a while to track down the liaison but it was out of there before the end of the first half."
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, when asked about it after Michigan State’s 23-7 win over Notre Dame, knew about the incident but said his staff was not trying to do anything illegal and said one of the coaching interns had the laptop. Weis talked to game officials as he was walking to the locker rooms at halftime.
"It wasn’t like somebody was trying to do something illegal," Weis said. "And I made sure I let them know that at halftime walking in that that was the case because the last thing I would ever do is lie."
