First Games Assigned.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by chseagle

Have done 2 JH/MS 8th Boys games. So far, so good.

One little tidbit for those who work in gyms where the scoreboard shows the TO Countdown, if you can have it only show on the scoreboard controller it'd make the coaches happier.

And as the official, I'm asking you to turn the damned thing off, if possible. Two reasons:

(1) Every place that's had that, the timer told me he couldn't shorten the timeout. Don't know if this is just ignorance or the truth, but if both teams are ready to go, I don't want to wait for some timer to countdown.

(2) You put the timeout time on the scoreboard and the time left in the period disappears. Coaches, players, fans, AND officials like having that time up.

I've never heard of a worse idea than putting the timeout countdown on the scoreboard.