Interesting Tip-Off Time

Mark Padgett · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Jul 22, 2009, 07:51pm

Is this going to lead in to something like one of those questions about reffing a game on a cruise ship that crosses the International Date Line while you're administering a 10 second back court count?

#2 (**permalink**) Wed Jul 22, 2009, 08:02pm

Nah, unless someone else is going to play that joke. This apparently is serious business. I would love to see who the officials are for this. How many of us would try working a game at this time? Remember this is NCAA Div. II (Nebraska-Omaha) vs. NAIA Div. I (Doane).

Mark Padgett · #3 (**permalink**) Wed Jul 22, 2009, 08:31pm

I once worked a kids tournament in which the championship game didn't tip off until almost 10:30 on a Sunday evening. It was the fifth game I worked that day starting at 10:00 am. I hope whoever works your game takes a really good nap that afternoon.

bob jenkins · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 08:02am

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Nah, unless someone else is going to play that joke. This apparently is serious business. I would love to see who the officials are for this. How many of us would try working a game at this time? Remember this is NCAA Div. II (Nebraska-Omaha) vs. NAIA Div. I (Doane).

Is it, perchance, on the first day that games are allowed? That would make some sense as a promotional event.

Hugh Refner · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 12:19pm

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Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Is it, perchance, on the first day that games are allowed? That would make some sense as a promotional event.

I looked on their website. It's their fourth game of the season.

BTW - the TV show "Leverage" last night was about a gym in Nebraska. It made the state seem like it was populated by a bunch of hillbillies stuck in the 1800s. It was about a crooked fight promoter. Of course, the good guys won in the end.

Raymond · #6 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 01:36pm

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Originally Posted by Hugh Refner

I looked on their website. It's their fourth game of the season.

BTW - the TV show "Leverage" last night was about a gym in Nebraska. It made the state seem like it was populated by a bunch of hillbillies stuck in the 1800s. It was about a crooked fight promoter. Of course, the good guys won in the end.

Yeah, there aren't any hills in Nebraska.

Adam · #7 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 03:24pm

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Yeah, there aren't any hills in Nebraska.

There are a few, but they're right near the Colorado and Wyoming borders; and they still managed to make a straight road all the way across without hitting any hills.

Mark Padgett · #8 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 03:59pm

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Yeah, there aren't any hills in Nebraska.

Huh? According to whitepages.com, there's tons of them. Not as many as in California, of course.

LDUB · #9 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 09:45pm

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Originally Posted by Hugh Refner

BTW - the TV show "Leverage" last night was about a gym in Nebraska. It made the state seem like it was populated by a bunch of hillbillies stuck in the 1800s.

I too was surprised at how accurately they were able to depict life in Nebraska.

Mark Padgett · #10 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 10:35pm

Although cultures have used hours to denote the passage of time for hundreds of years, the "second" is considered to be a metric unit. I once asked one of my college professors why. He said because the International Bureau of Weights and Measures says so.

Of course, that organization is located in France.

mbyron · #11 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 24, 2009, 07:46am

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Although cultures have used hours to denote the passage of time for hundreds of years, the "second" is considered to be a metric unit.

It is also an English unit (foot-pound-second).

And the French don't define it, nature does. The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.

Raymond · #12 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 08:35am

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Nah, unless someone else is going to play that joke. This apparently is serious business. I would love to see who the officials are for this. How many of us would try working a game at this time? Remember this is NCAA Div. II (Nebraska-Omaha) vs. NAIA Div. I (Doane).

D2 pay, somewhere between $175-225? I think I would do it.

rockchalk jhawk · #13 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 09:39am

wow, NAIA D2 pay in down south a bit in KS is only $160/game...

Raymond · #14 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 11:52am

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Originally Posted by rockchalk jhawk

wow, NAIA D2 pay in down south a bit in KS is only $160/game...

I think N-Omaha is NCAA D2, not NAIA.

budjones05 · #15 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 23, 2009, 11:53am

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I think N-Omaha is NCAA D2, not NAIA.

They are. The are in the MIAA conference

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