Chain Crew Questions

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by reddevil19

Hi all. I made my first venture into this forum as a PA announcer for a junior college, and now I'd like to ask a few questions from my high school day job position.

Yesterday, as I ran the clock for our final frosh home game, I couldn't help but realize that our game had the worst chain crew operation I think I've ever seen. Now of course, I know in my area that we're always seemingly recruiting kids out of the stands 15 minutes before gametime to do this at the 9th/JV level,

In 40 years, I don't recall ever seeing a game where that was not the case.

One thing that really does is slow games down. A combination of slow administration and oversolicitousness toward the coaches, along with late arrivals (of everyone) has caused some of our multi-game youth football matches to be shortened by darkness. Games with 8 minute quarters and hardly any passing have lasted 2 hours, even with a shortened half time interval.

Robert