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Originally Posted by bbcoach7
What is it with the scorers table guys? Ours seems to believe he's the only one capable of setting up the equipment and plugging it in. About once a season, we set it up for him just to watch him fuss and fret when he shows up 5 minutes before the tip. He'll unplug everything and then plug it back in exactly the way we did it, muttering to his self the whole time. It's obviously a control issue. I've been told that he narrates the entire game out loud quietly, so if you're sitting beside him, it's non-stop chatter. People have asked him to stop, told him it's distracting, but he'll never stop, apparently he can't. Durring our home tournament, we were playing, and while the opponent was in possession of the ball I heard a voice loudly calling out, "7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2," as the shot clock ran down. I looked over at the table and it was him! WTF?!?  First oportunity I got I walked the several steps to the table and said, "When you loudly announce the shot clock winding down, you're helping our opponent." I was later told by home book that he didn't say a word for 5 minutes or more, and when he finally spoke, it was to rant about me. Whatever, I don't care, just as long as he stops coujnting down the shot clock.
And if he can't see the official because I'm standing, well maybe he should stand up!  |
Concerning the shot clock countdown, when I'm doing shot clock in the main gym, I've been asked to do that so that the timer can buzz the horn due to the shot clock buzzer not being very loud. However I do the countdown so that the timer can hear it, but no one else (or so I think, I hope).
I try to get to the gym about an hour before the 1st game to assist with setup, however all I do is assist with getting the scorers' tables setup.
Last night was an experiment with the secondary gym table setup. The AD said nothing concerning the setup, so he had no complaints. Basically for my alma mater, the table setup is up to the timer. I just moved the books around to where they were next to each other with the scoreboard/timer & shot clock next to each other.
The main gym setup (started operation in 1994) has a scorers' table on the floor with the benches on either side, although this setup has only been in use for the last 2 years. The secondary gym setup (the secondary gym is about 40 years old) has the scorers' table in the middle of wood manual pullout bleachers with the personnel sitting 3 rows up, the benches on either side.