Welcome to the new pretzel thread....

Thinking maybe our scoreboard system is covered under some kind of warranty. There has to be a defect in the product. I mean, when you stop each game an average of TWO times b/c the shot clock doesn't reset - it can't be operator error. Has to be some kind of wiring issue in the circuitry. Maybe some rare earths aren't conducting the proper amount of electricity.

After all - It CANNOT be what the LOVE mentioned at least 3 times on bobcatattack v.1. It can't be the crew at the scorer's table. The same crew who everyone defended with cries of "But LOVE, they work OSHAA games" and "How could you possibly question our beloved guys at the scorers table?" and "One of them is in the OSHAA Hall of Fame."

Yeah, has to be a technical issue with the equipment. After all, it's way out of bounds on this forum to question the crew at the scorers table - as I found out so directly over the past several years.

So I just we'll keep enduring the awkward stoppages of play while the machine limps its way through. Yep. That's the ticket.

I totally agree Love. No reason for the clock not to be working. Noticed it a couple of times this year.

THe NFHS successfully turned back the fans with hoops ADD at the High School level one more time. Idiotic fans that do not understand the game keep calling for a shot clock in high school ( i will not get into the discussion why kids who have yet to master the fundamentals of passing and dribbling and the mechanics of the game do not need to be rushed into a shot clock situation to satisfy fans) in order to speed up the game and make it a *better* product for the fans and get kids ready for the next level. As if .....there are that many kids going to the next level.

I say successfully because forget about the cost of setting up clocks at every HS venue in America.....the problems we have in collegiate and professional athletics with staffing the tables with an extra guy who actually communicates with the refs and pays attention to the game and runs the clock with any degree of perfection is going to be extremely hard to accomplish across this land.at the HS level..


but I assume your assumption is correct and the problem lies solely in the equipment at OUr beloved university, can't possibly be operator error......well done with the communique.

The member at the scorers table you reference doesn't run the shot clock or make your pretzel or fill the soda dispenser at the Nelsonville Taco Bell.  But thanks for trying to sound better than everyone else.   By the way, weren't you supposed to grace us with just one post and then leave again?  Darn, got my hopes up.  

You couldn't even make this stuff up.

Exactly. Fact. Spot On.

This is precisely why I posted. 

It's not a personal attack on the clock operator(s), but I am certainly questioning the state of affairs when this kind of thing KEEPS happening multiple times per game. 

I remember this happening in previous years.

Oh God I can imagine The Post articles already....

So is Daktronics sending in a technician? Seems its an equipment issue.

I do think it would be hilarious that if and when whoever would foot the bill for this takes out an ad in the Post saying they paid for it out of his/her/their pocket and that not a nickel of Cutler Hall's coffers paid for it

Twice today we called a timeout with 23 seconds on the shot clock, yet had not crossed half court. I'm not sure how the refs missed that.

I was sitting with Jerry Peirson (Miami) at the Hall of Fame classic when we watched a 5 second call that was very quick. Both of us were astonished and looked at each other.....it all got cleared up when the fellow behind us  leaned in and said...'.when you are the visiting team here at New Castle they start counting at 3.......3,4, 5 and blow the whistle'. We both got a good laugh out of that one.

But I did see the clock on 24 and 23 on those possessions.

I'll save my comments, but there was a hilarious moment(s) late in the game:

Cooper and Goff get technicals, and Herrion pulls the refs over for an explanation. After he gets the explanation, he (very audibly) says "You're going to call that NOW?" - Meaning down 30 with 6 or 7 minutes left.

Then, not 30 seconds later he is on the Refs looking for some kind of ticky tack reach in foul. The same kind, of which, they would never call in a blowout with 6 or 7 minutes left.

Great win today. We should all write letters to get Herrion an extension at Marshall. His teams are completely undisciplined, fundamental trainwrecks, who played no semblence of defense. I could have watched that game for hours on end today.