Unsportsmanlike Conduct Question

[reddevil19]

Originally Posted by Bob M.

REPLY: I, for one, applaud you for it. Too many of your colleagues--even at the 'major network' level--rely on either an antiquated (rules do change) or a woefully inadequate knowledge of the rules. And then they compound their errors by speaking as the ultimate authorities on the officials' rules knowledge and judgment.

I notice that you're fairly new to our forum. Welcome...and please don't hesitate to return if you have other questions.

Thanks, and I will definitely continue looking around here and asking questions when they arise.

[reddevil19]

Originally Posted by Bob M.

REPLY: The PA guy got ejected!!! That must be a story in itself.

Yeah. This guy was an alumnus who fancied himself as a play-by-play guy, except that he was really bad. To make a long story short, on the play in question, our QB was scrambling around the pocket looking to make a play when the PA guy screamed into the mic, "AND (QB's NAME) HAS (WR's NAME) WIDE OPEN DOWN THE RIGHT SIDELINE."...it was very obvious the QB had no clue. But as soon as that was said, he stopped running, turned to the right, and threw a beautiful pass which resulted in a TD. The other team's coaches were very unhappy.

After a lengthy discussion, the officials let the play stand (still seems wrong for some reason) and excused the announcer for the remainder of the afternoon. I was in the box because the teacher who signed-up to run the clock had no idea what they were doing, so I was helping them. Having just started PA experience with JV baseball the previous spring, I decided to grab the mic (since he left the rosters) and took over.

When the Assistant Principal in charge of athletics found out the next day what happened, he fired the guy and that started me on my path.

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Actually even if it was a typo, I'm still somewhat impressed by a HS JV having a night game.

Robert

In San Diego, CA the JV game is usually right before the V game. Yeah, that's right, we do JV/V doubleheaders almost every Friday. Some of the schools run the JV right after school lets out, so they really are not "night" games (and it also makes for a lovely hour and a half wait between games for the officials), but a lot start at 4:30 or 5:00, so you end up under the lights. And, those schools typically run their freshman programs at that time only on Thursdays, so they'll play the second half under lights too.
As for the little guys, most of them play at the high school fields. Only a few will play games under the lights, but some do.

[Suudy]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Actually even if it was a typo, I'm still somewhat impressed by a HS JV having a night game.

In Eastern Washington, we frequently had JV games start as late as 6pm. But even starting at 5pm, it gets dark pretty early up north in the fall, so it ends up being a night game.

Of course now that I am in Western Washington, almost all less than varsity games start very early. And all 7th/8th grade games start at 3:45pm (which is why we are struggling to find officials to cover those games).

[Robert Goodman]

But reddevil19 still hasn't said whether they were JCs or JVs.

[Bob M.]

Originally Posted by reddevil19

JC = Junior College. I did start out doing PA for HS JV games 13 years ago as a sophomore in high school after the regular guy got ejected one day.

REPLY: Robert...he said so here.

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by reddevil19

This guy was an alumni

Alumni is plural. Alumnus is singular.

Originally Posted by reddevil19

After a lengthy discussion, the officials let the play stand (still seems wrong for some reason) and excused the announcer for the remainder of the afternoon.

That seems right to me, I don't think anything else really could be done.

[reddevil19]

Originally Posted by LDUB

Alumni is plural. Alumnus is singular.



That seems right to me, I don't think anything else really could be done.

Yeah, I suppose it's probably not something that could be undone, especially if there's nothing in the rules against it (but it still didn't seem quite fair). Although if you ask me, there ought to be a rule against Play-by-Play over the PA, if for not other reason than most of those I hear attempt it are horrible.

BTW: I fixed "alumni."

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by reddevil19

JC = Junior College. I did start out doing PA for HS JV games 13 years ago as a sophomore in high school after the regular guy got ejected one day.

Ack! Missed that post entirely until someone else pointed it out, thanks. Junior College. In that case, not such impressive facilities.

I was so paranoid that others have better facilities than us that I hadn't even considered that possibility for what the "C" stood for. I was thinking Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Robert