televised game preparation??

[chseagle]

How do you prepare yourself & your partner(s) to work a televised game?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by chseagle

How do you prepare yourself & your partner(s) to work a televised game?

Really?

In advance, nothing different.

Shortly before the game -- find out who tells us when they are back from commercial, and see if there is any special timing near the beginning of the game or for halftime.

[JRutledge]

I would prepare no different than I would working a game in a special location. All I care about is what delays or changes we will have to adjust to, like a special ceremony or if they want us to wait to put the ball back in play or even if we are using a microphone. Otherwise the game itself is the same.

Peace

[chseagle]

What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by chseagle

What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?

Already answered.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by chseagle

What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?

There really is nothing to prepare for. It is what it is. TV hardly changes anything we do.

Peace

Originally Posted by chseagle

How do you prepare yourself & your partner(s) to work a televised game?

I text every official I know telling them I'm gonna be on tv!

Originally Posted by chseagle

What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?

I don't text them until I arrive at the venue that night.

Originally Posted by AremRed

I text every official I know telling them I'm gonna be on tv!

I had my first tv game tonight. I don't recommend boasting about being on tv.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by chseagle

What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?

Then you can't prepare.

[Tom.OH]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Really?

In advance, nothing different.

Shortly before the game -- find out who tells us when they are back from commercial, and see if there is any special timing near the beginning of the game or for halftime.

My crew did a Fox Sports Ohio game last year. We did not change anything from a "normal" game.
One mistake we did make was not asking when the kickoff would be. We got the teams out for a 7:30 kick and had to wait until the pregame show was over. We finally got the ok at 7:37, way to long a wait. Also let coaches know TV timeouts are 2+ minutes long and keep the teams with the coaches until called Back.
Have fun.

[john5396]

Comb my hair...

[Matt S.]

As someone who officiates basketball and has worked as a Red Hat & TOC for football and basketball, I can tell you that establishing a rapport before the game with your conduit to the TV truck is huge.

A little pregame conversation and respect shown by a crew towards the red hat/TOC goes a long way... that person is the one who can totally throw off the flow of a game if he takes a timeout at the wrong time--treating that person like a member of the crew can pay big dividends!

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I am late in joining the party on this thread but I have a story to tell that will take the cake.

As some of you may know I officiated women's college basketball from 1974 to 2008. When my "intelligent and lovely better half" were first married we lived in Glendale, California, the first two years (1982-84) of our marriage. And I officiated jr. college and college as well as high school basketball in the Los Angeles area during the time.

This was when USC's women's teams won the national championship in 1981-82 and 1982-83 with Cheryl Miller (Reggie's little sister) as USC's star player and Linda McDonald as USC's Head Coach (I have a story about Linda McDonald but I will leave that for another time) and their major rival nationally, league wise, and locally was UCLA. And both of their regular season meetings during the 1981-82 season were televised locally.

None-the-less, at a pre-season women's college officials meeting before the start of regular season, a particular women's college official (a male) gave a presentation about pre-game meetings with one's partner (we were still using two-man (person) crews and still wearing blue and white for games below the what was then Division I level. This particular official officiated the second meeging between USC and UCLA in the 1981-82 season, told us how he and his partner pre-gamed for the second game: The game was an afternoon game and they watched a tape of the game (yeah VCR was modern technology back then) the night before so that they would be ready for anything that could happen in their game the next day. It was all I could do to keep for falling out of my chair and laughing my tuchus off.

I am done know and will go back to bed.

MTD, Sr.

[SNIPERBBB]

Unless it's nationally televised...you'll probably see more views on YouTube in 48 hours from a shaky cell phone video than msnbc has viewers all year if you really screw something up