And if Snaqwells had open enrolled a mere 15 miles to the south, his Iowa education would have been even more solid. :D

Oh yeah, and as for the actual conversation here. More information is better.

It was bad enough I had to go there for my first job; can't imagine going there for school. And while you're geography is close, it's not quite perfect. :)

I'm spoiled, I guess. Every school in the area has team fouls on the board. It's considered part of the minimum level of information. I have yet to work a HS baseball game without a scoreboard, too.

I did have a first this season. Working a juco mens game, I was told they had no arrow for the table. Rather than get into a pissing match over an arrow in a gym with about 25 spectators and two teams that seemed to be treating the whole thing like organized rec ball, I simply told the crew we would have to remember the arrow. We did.

East Podunk? Aren't they the Fightin' Nimrods? Also, JR there is no blackberry service in East Podunk. They use carrier pigeons which is far more distracting than the blackberries especially when they deficate on the scorebook...

Also, this is the dumbest discussion on an official forum ever. As an official I could give a rat's #$%@ what type of scoreboard hangs on the wall as long as it keeps the time. I am emailing Brad and demanding that he refund the 10 minutes of my life wasted reading this.

I had a difficult time coming up with an actual distance since the school district includes 14 towns.:D

I guess I shouldn't say anything. My district went from Meservey-Thornton to Sheffield-Chapin/Meservey-Thornton, and has now added Rockwell-Swaledale and is called West Fork. :p

Really? The team fouls are unimportant to you? I don't believe that -- either that, or you're just used to not having that information always available.

And nobody forced you to read the entire thread, did they?

Yes, and their crosstown rivals are the West Podunk Fightin' Dieblers. Of course their girls team is the Lady Dieblers.

CMB is much simpler. I used to know all the acronyms for the small schools.

Is there a spot on those fancy scoreboards to credit A2 with a basket he shoots into Team B's goal?

They change every year in these parts....

And sometimes they differ between sports; especially with wrestling, cross country, golf, etc.

No, but there's spot for footnotes to indicate what happened; so A2's grandkids can read about it in 50 years.

Of course they are not unimportant and I work in a major metro are for HS and all my college games have it so it is almost always available on the scoreboard. However, if its not I manage through it by checking with the book when I sense we are getting close. Not that tough really.

My point was a discussion regarding the "type of scoreboard"

And no, nobody forced me to read it... It was an overly sarcastic way of saying, seriously we are talking about Daktronics scoreboards over All American scoreboards as officials?

Lighten up Rich its only basketball.

This thread may be a WOBW, but we did not waste it on scoreboards; this thing went off the rails quickly. :)