Rhode Island State Final

[JRutledge]

Peace

[RefsNCoaches]

Man...what a way to end a game.

State Final though? Number of fans in the stands looked like a normal Friday night here in Indiana!

We'll draw an average of about 5500 people over 4 classes at the finals held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Back in 1990 when we were one class, a kid named Damon Bailey drew 40K+ at the then, Hoosier Dome for state final. I think that is still a national record.

[eyezen]

Originally Posted by RefsNCoaches

Man...what a way to end a game.

State Final though? Number of fans in the stands looked like a normal Friday night here in Indiana!

We'll draw an average of about 5500 people over 4 classes at the finals held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Back in 1990 when we were one class, a kid named Damon Bailey drew 40K+ at the then, Hoosier Dome for state final. I think that is still a national record.

We're talking about Rhode Island here, whose size is barely larger than the average county.

Which begs the question, how in the world do they have 3 classes?

[deecee]

Originally Posted by eyezen

We're talking about Rhode Island here, whose size is barely larger than the average county.

Which begs the question, how in the world do they have 3 classes?

Freshmen, juniors, and seniors duh!!!

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by eyezen

We're talking about Rhode Island here, whose size is barely larger than the average county.



Which begs the question, how in the world do they have 3 classes?

Tell me about it. I officiated there for one season. Each division has a very small number of teams. Their state brackets are smaller than some conference tourneys. I think to some extent it's to make the state seem more prominent than it really is. Heck, RIIL even sponsors a JV state tourney.

But...in their defense, without divisions you'd have Providence power schools routinely beating up on places like Exeter and some of the small fishing towns on the coast.

BTW, those state games are the only times you'll see 3p crews in RI.


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[Nevadaref]

Two questions:
1. How did they come up with 1.0 for the clock? There is no way any official saw that time on the clock.

2. Did the same crew work both the D3 and D2 games? The white-haired guy looks the same.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Two questions:
1. How did they come up with 1.0 for the clock? There is no way any official saw that time on the clock.

Maybe not, but it seems like they were close.



Peace

[Raymond]

No way a time-out request was recognized at 1.0.

[RefsNCoaches]

Originally Posted by eyezen

We're talking about Rhode Island here, whose size is barely larger than the average county.

Which begs the question, how in the world do they have 3 classes?

I understand that...just seems funny cause even our Class A (small schools) get more than that in attendance.

[BatteryPowered]

Originally Posted by RefsNCoaches

I understand that...just seems funny cause even our Class A (small schools) get more than that in attendance.

In Texas, our Class A high schools have an student population of 104 or less (they play 6-man football) and in the playoffs there will be crowds as large as the one in the video.

[Raymond]

So this has turned into a thread about whose (crowd) is bigger?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

So this has turned into a thread about whose (crowd) is bigger?

Let me get my ruler.

[BatteryPowered]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

So this has turned into a thread about whose (crowd) is bigger?

Why not? Seems the consensus is that 1 second was too much time to put back on the clock but that is doesn't matter as the shot got off before the time would have expired anyway.

So...let's move on to other things seen in the video.