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[stiffler3492]

When I did a sophomore game before a varsity game, I knew I was in good hands. The Saturday morning freshman games though....oof.

[Stat-Man]

I think it depends more on the experience level of the table crew.

I had a 9th grade girls game at the start of the month where the timer was a veteran and the scorer has been there for years. So, there wasn't much of a need to give them detailed instructions.

In my next to last game (JV Boys), the timer admitted he was brand new, so my partner worked with him a little bit on when to start/stop the clock. There were a few times where this timer didn't blow the horn for subs. After the first time we missed one, I made more of an effort to look for waiting subs whenever possible to make sure they got in. But once the game progressed, he improved.

[JetMetFan]

Virtually all the H.S. games I work have kids doing everything so I have a set speech for every game. The speech is extended for girls' games or any AA games because they use the shot clock. I'm guaranteed to have at least one game every season where the shot-clock operator has never done it before. Good times.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Here it is considered unacceptable to have a kid on either clock but acceptable to have a kid on the book.One school in the league uses all kids on JV and they did not have a clue.Going to be brought up at the league administrator's meeting.Luckily the offending school had the football coach run the board for varsity so there weren't any issues at all but I have never been that frustrated at a table ever.