Shameless (Syracuse) homer article on Big East

[Grandpa]

You can click on the link to find the "odds" of each BE team to win the conference (nothing really of major interest here other than unbridled Orange self-love), but I thought the following 2 excerpts from the article would be of interest to Big East fans (not sure if folks have already seen this stuff at any of our games) :

The Refs Go Wireless
This season all of the basketball officials in the Big East, ACC and Southeastern Conference will be controlling time via a wireless mechanism. All will wear a device on their belts that looks like a pager, which is connected to a small microphone attached on their whistles, which will shut off the clock when the whistle is blown. Next application: by parents everywhere, especially at dinnertime.

A Luminous Gift
The Big East has purchased lighting tubes which wrap around the borders of the backboard and light up whenever the whistle is blown. It is an advanced version of the lighting system that is currently used in customizing cars. From low riders to backboards, who'd a thunk it?

newtimes.rway.com/2004/122904/shakin.shtml

[lichoya68]

oh yeah the wireless it popped off the ref in the norfolk state game and then somehow we lost a few seconds with a time out i showed on the clock 25 sec and with the new deivce the clock went down to 16 they did correct it but only to 23 ouch kinda like six seton hall players on the court at the end of the game last time those refs go hoyas

[kchoya]

lichoya68 said:

oh yeah the wireless it popped off the ref in the norfolk state game and then somehow we lost a few seconds with a time out i showed on the clock 25 sec and with the new deivce the clock went down to 16 they did correct it but only to 23 ouch kinda like six seton hall players on the court at the end of the game last time those refs go hoyas

What the hell are you talking about? Can anyone understand this guy?

[Cambridge]

Just read it slowly. No point in bashing it each and every time. The one thing more annoying than reading through it is reading through someone's reaction each time. Seriously, he ain't going to change, so just skip it if you get annoyed.

[Fan Of The Game]

Grandpa said:

The Refs Go Wireless
This season all of the basketball officials in the Big East, ACC and Southeastern Conference will be controlling time via a wireless mechanism. All will wear a device on their belts that looks like a pager, which is connected to a small microphone attached on their whistles, which will shut off the clock when the whistle is blown. Next application: by parents everywhere, especially at dinnertime.

The clock thing is really weird. My old man does the clock for BC and for 39 minutes the refs are in control of the clock and his pressing of the buttons serves only as a back-up. In the last minute of the game the clocks stops on a made bucket and there is no whistle therefore it reverts back to the clock operator's control.

There have been a few incidents of the ref accidentally starting the clock by "scratching himself" but I think they've worked out most of the bugs.