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Post by carookie on Jan 28, 2008 1:28:23 GMT -6
I was talking to a coah from another league the other day, and he brought up to me that some of their players/parents/staff took offense to an opposing teams PA guy (the team with the bad PA guy is just down the road from our school). After asking around I've come to learn that this guy has a rep for rubbing some people the wrong way from the PA booth.
Mixing in some pbp (ala radio, or cheezy football movies), editorializing, and other things that could be construed as classless.
I was wondering if others here have had that problem, or heard of similar situations?
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Post by morris on Jan 28, 2008 6:24:47 GMT -6
With youth games yes but very very rarely in our games. At the State Championships this year though Lexington Catholic Knights were introduced as the Catholic Knights which I have to say was a little wrong. Private vs Public is a big issue here.
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Post by olinecoach61 on Jan 28, 2008 6:25:12 GMT -6
We play a team every year who we can't stand, alot of it is editorializing during the game, and we do find it classless, but then again, there's no love lost between the two programs so maybe I'm biased.
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Post by wingt74 on Jan 28, 2008 8:10:48 GMT -6
Had a PA this past season who helped other team...not sure if it was intentional or not.
"Looks like they switched their go-to receiver to the right side."
"#12, their big back, is back in the game"
Normal stuff a coaching staff should pick up...but I don't need the darn PA guy to help out.
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Post by brophy on Jan 28, 2008 8:19:44 GMT -6
Question.......
Can any of you actually hear the announcers during the course of the game?
I ask because as a player and as a coach, I can NEVER remember ever hearing the play-by-play or the fans during the course of a game. Maybe I do not possess very capable perception abilities, but I've always found that the body naturally tunes that stuff out when you are focussed on the game.
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Post by coachbama15 on Jan 28, 2008 8:42:19 GMT -6
I have one for yall. At a school I was working at the pa announcer did not realy like the head coach and I was the offensive coordinator so he would say things like "What was Coach ******* thinking with that decision?" "What kind of play call was that?" "Did the coach really think that would work?" by the end of the season had become....the coach is a moron, blah, blah, blah..
The next season it was better because our stud runningback was his nephew..then it became..."Give the ball to *****!!!" if we called anything else.
Memories....
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Post by justwingit on Jan 28, 2008 8:42:37 GMT -6
I don't often hear it but I do remember during one our away JV games the home team announcer calling "REVERSE" during one of our plays!. Trick 'em later on with a fake reverse...
It's not supposed to be play-by-play and if it gets annoying you can have the referee stop it.
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Post by bluecrazy on Jan 28, 2008 8:50:44 GMT -6
Bama- Sounds like the parents at our school now. You learn to tune them out, but over the PA? That would be hard to tune out! Just think what the thought!
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Post by ajreaper on Jan 28, 2008 9:18:34 GMT -6
Question....... Can any of you actually hear the announcers during the course of the game?I ask because as a player and as a coach, I can NEVER remember ever hearing the play-by-play or the fans during the course of a game. Maybe I do not possess very capable perception abilities, but I've always found that the body naturally tunes that stuff out when you are focussed on the game. Exactly my thoughts- I rarely have any clue what's been said by the PA guy when on the sideline. |
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Post by knight9299 on Jan 28, 2008 10:30:43 GMT -6
I was talking to a coah from another league the other day, and he brought up to me that some of their players/parents/staff took offense to an opposing teams PA guy (the team with the bad PA guy is just down the road from our school). After asking around I've come to learn that this guy has a rep for rubbing some people the wrong way from the PA booth. Mixing in some pbp (ala radio, or cheezy football movies), editorializing, and other things that could be construed as classless. I was wondering if others here have had that problem, or heard of similar situations? The PA at my last job was responsible for getting our team sideline warnings in 3 different games this season. We only had 4 home games this year. Mostly because he played music during plays etc. Add a bad clock woman and you get the perfect storm for a bad booth. |
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Post by toddniklaus on Jan 28, 2008 10:39:44 GMT -6
A few years ago our PA announcer would rip us with the mic off but our film could pick it up. We thought it was pretty funny. Every one is a better coach from the stands.
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Jan 28, 2008 11:14:40 GMT -6
We have a guy down the road who announces who is carrying the ball before the play is complete. We had an issue a few years ago where he we ran a reverse and he called "Jim Johnson with the reverse" before we even handed the ball to the reverse man!!  We ran the same play later in the game with a seam route and he did the same thing. We scored on the pass play thanks to the FS listening to his call. |
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Post by ajreaper on Jan 28, 2008 12:12:11 GMT -6
I'm telling you no kid on the field hears the PA announcer- ever during a play. Heck sometimes you scream for a kid from the sideline and he can't hear you at all so to think a kid playing hears the PA and makes a play because of it? Hard to imagine that at all.
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Post by newhc on Jan 28, 2008 12:17:15 GMT -6
We have a PA Announcer at a Rival Team that I was told was pretty bad. I have had to look at the games again, and I hear all the play by play. It is really funny to hear it, cause you wonder why you couldn't hear it during the game.
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Jan 28, 2008 15:06:19 GMT -6
I'm telling you no kid on the field hears the PA announcer- ever during a play. Heck sometimes you scream for a kid from the sideline and he can't hear you at all so to think a kid playing hears the PA and makes a play because of it? Hard to imagine that at all. Its the truth--it irritates the head coach at this school because his players rely on it too much. |
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Post by coachpodach on Jan 28, 2008 15:41:07 GMT -6
We have a PA guy that is awful as well, i've often thought about bringing the old fishing pole up to the box and dangling hot dogs down over him. I've never seen him turn down free food. This may be a remedy for Diarrhea of the mouth.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Jan 28, 2008 15:54:25 GMT -6
I've never noticed it during a game... but on the tape, we've had a lot of the same stuff mentioned on here. Over my whole career, we've only played at two places that were really bad (unsportsmanlike).
One year, we played at a school whose PA guy was notorious for it. Up 22-14 late in the 4th (we had not attempted a pass all game to that point), we have a 2nd and 7 around their 35. The call went exactly like this from the PA guy:
"Watch the double dive, watch the double dive! There it is! Get him! What? (slightly muffled) O sh*t."
Most hilarious thing I've ever heard on a game tape, and we still play that old tape just to hear that again (someone in the same town sent an anonymous letter the following year after we won 44-7... criticizing us by saying we didn't just play to win, we played to "annihilate the species". I loved that too... still have the letter.)
Our state has a ruling that all ADs are supposed to give to game personnel (including PA announcers) that reads:
1. Once again NSAA has asked all administrators to remind game workers of the NSAA stance on sportsmanship. Game announcers are Public Address Announcers and are not to call play-by-play action.
2. NSAA has also asked that we remind all game workers that they are part of game administration and are to be non-partisan officers of the game and should not emphasize nor celebrate one teams success over another’s.
Of course, like a lot of rules, these are not always enforced.
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Post by Coach Klemme on Jan 28, 2008 16:07:17 GMT -6
Our PA is a tool. The players rotate who makes the warm up cd for our home games (the songs have to be clean and heard by one of the coaches to make sure) He'll play one or two of those and then Go to his own style of music. Beach Boys, Jan and Dean etc. I don't know about you but it seems a bit hard to get pumped up to Little Duce Coup and the Bird is the Word every week.
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Post by wingtol on Jan 28, 2008 16:22:48 GMT -6
This kind of funny but the school I am at now and the HC at the school I am at now had a run in with our PA when he was coaching at another school. Our HC was at a diff school and the current school we are at had a PA guy who was doing the old "SO AND SO IN FOR THE 50 YD TD!!!!!!!!" thing as they were up like 40 points. So our HC who was in the box for the old school he coached at went in and screamed at the guy for like 2 mins. Needless to say when HC got the job at our current school the PA guy quit.
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Post by ramsoc on Jan 29, 2008 1:20:26 GMT -6
Our PA guy hasn't said anything wrong over the PA, but you hear him on the game film trashing OUR offense. Lost my mind to hear him say "Oh thats not gonna work" when we through a screen pass, then watched it go for a 40 yd touchdown.
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