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[stratref]

Originally Posted by Suudy

Did I say I was in Eastern WA?

I think only one school has headsets. One school actually operates the scoreboard from the roof of the gym, where the scoreboard is mounted. That same school doesn't even have lights and plays varsity games at 2pm Fri.

Fair enough, I am from Southwest Washington and see a few of those eastern teams each year and they always bring head sets with them, I guess I normally see the bigger (2A-4A) schools. I know that the east side of the state takes their football very seriously. I am just surprised because even our 1B and 2B teams down here use headsets and have fields with press boxes. Again I guess I shouldn't guess because 2 of our smaller schools just borrow an open field of a larger school and can play their "home" games at 3 or 4 different fields each year.
We also have a team that doesn't have lights and plays its varsity games start anywhere between 1pm and 3pm on Fridays with the occasional 3pm Thursday and 1pm Saturday starts.

Jasper

[Suudy]

Originally Posted by stratref

Fair enough, I am from Southwest Washington and see a few of those eastern teams each year and they always bring head sets with them, I guess I normally see the bigger (2A-4A) schools. I know that the east side of the state takes their football very seriously. I am just surprised because even our 1B and 2B teams down here use headsets and have fields with press boxes. Again I guess I shouldn't guess because 2 of our smaller schools just borrow an open field of a larger school and can play their "home" games at 3 or 4 different fields each year.

We have a couple of schools that do have headsets. Pullman and Clarkston do. But their clock operators are rock solid guys. They know what they are doing. But the smaller schools, say Lac-Wash, St John, Tekoa, etc, don't. And it is the bigger schools that do have headsets.

We only have 2 2A schools, 1 A school, and the rest are B-11 and B-8 schools. When I was in the Seattle area, I did some big schools (Snohomish county) and they were light years ahead of the schools I did in Eastern WA in terms of equipment, coaching, venues, players, etc.

The funny thing is that the playoff game I did was the Pullman-Orting quarterfinal that was played at WSU. Pullman's announcer is a high school kid (even during the regular season; I think its part of some class). So he really didn't know what was going on. And since the clock operator and the announcer are in different rooms in Martin Stadium, he probably couldn't be corrected.

Originally Posted by stratref

We also have a team that doesn't have lights and plays its varsity games start anywhere between 1pm and 3pm on Fridays with the occasional 3pm Thursday and 1pm Saturday starts.

Aren't those fun? I have trouble getting enough JV/Jr High games under my belt to be eligible for a playoff spot (our association requires JV/Jr High participation) because of the early start times. Getting off work at 11am so we can drive over an hour to do a Friday afternoon game stinks.