NWLB wrote:It would be nice to have some in-game stats showing on the boards, or at least at half time. It would be nice to have the stats on scoring drives. It would be nice if they could scroll OOC and other MAC scores rather than annouce them..
I agree, stats would be great!
NWLB wrote: I wouldn't think it a bad thing to have another illuminated scroll bar pointed towards Wooster. I always thought that was a nice way to promote up-coming events.
I thought about too. Maybe they could have put the board on a swivel so that at times other than football games, it could have been spun around toward Wooster giving schedule messages, tix info, Univ stuff, ads, etc. The people sitting on Wooster during the construction need something to look at!
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Tricky,
I agree with you on the "zoom" concept... too many times we appeared to be 1/2 mile from the field... I'm assuming that a lot of bugs will get worked out between now and Homecoming.
As to the screech of the Falcon on 1st downs, I kind of enjoy it... Not to say it couldn't be toned down a bit... If any of you have ever been to Penn State, their Nittany Lion "snarls" after every 1st down...and THAT is really loud. 8)
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The reason I wonder is the that the back of it for one thing looks so naked the way it is right now. The front sides of the scoreboard also look kinda naked too. Shouldn't there be a boarder along the sides made of the same stuff the top boarder is made of? I don't know about you guys , it just looks a little unfinished to me.
Class of 61 wrote:
As to the screech of the Falcon on 1st downs, I kind of enjoy it... Not to say it couldn't be toned down a bit... If any of you have ever been to Penn State, their Nittany Lion "snarls" after every 1st down...and THAT is really loud. 8)
Does anyone know for sure what bird they use for the first down screech? It's not any falcon I'm aware of and it's for sure not a peregrine falcon. Not a big deal, just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this.
UK Peregrine Fan wrote:Does anyone know for sure what bird they use for the first down screech? It's not any falcon I'm aware of and it's for sure not a peregrine falcon. Not a big deal, just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this.
Not for SURE, but it sounds like an osprey to me.
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Funny thing is our press box has the most state of the art stat package in all of football. For the SEMO game I had a couple of friends working the telecast for BCSN and the U provided them with WIRELESS up to the play stats on everything you can imagine.
The information is there and readily accessable , it would just take someone with graphic skills willing to create the templates. . . .
Hmmmmmm wonder if anyone around here knows how to do that sort of thing?
If they have this technology in place, I can only imagine it will just be a matter of time before (I HOPE!) that they upgrade the interaction between the stadium and the website. While an in-game stat tracker would be awesome for up to the minute stats, at least having a score update, and maybe something at halftime to start with seems like a must-have in this day and age. I know the sports info. department runs around like crazy up there, but you'd think they could grab one student to at the very least enter "BG leads UT 37-0 with 2:45 left in the first quarter, Sharon with 5 TD catches" into a template and fire it up on the website. Most other schools do this to some varying degree, I hope BG's turn is soon.
TG1996 wrote:If they have this technology in place, I can only imagine it will just be a matter of time before (I HOPE!) that they upgrade the interaction between the stadium and the website. While an in-game stat tracker would be awesome for up to the minute stats, at least having a score update, and maybe something at halftime to start with seems like a must-have in this day and age. I know the sports info. department runs around like crazy up there, but you'd think they could grab one student to at the very least enter "BG leads UT 37-0 with 2:45 left in the first quarter, Sharon with 5 TD catches" into a template and fire it up on the website. Most other schools do this to some varying degree, I hope BG's turn is soon.
In a perfect world that would be great but I don't think they have enough bodies to do that. Also I think they probably want people to utilize the college sports pass that they offer on bgsufalcons.com
How is it a perfect world to ask one kid to take 2 minutes out of every twenty to type and send a note about the game to the site? While full running stats would be awesome, just some kind of acknowledgement that there is a game going on with updates would be nice. While ESPN has gotten much better at providing more regular updates, it still lacks a little. And besides, if they've got the technology to send stats, etc. wirelessly through the press box, certainly they can find a program that would send them wirelessly to the web.
And does the college sports pass provide stats? Or just streaming audio? If it provides stats, then I can see the conflict, otherwise, I don't see it as an issue at all. Case in point, I was at work on Sunday watching the gametracker of the Browns-Ravens game, but couldn't listen to it at work. If I had the option to listen, I would have eaten it up, and it would have added to having the numbers in front of me.
I see what you're saying, tricky, I just think its an easily fillable void that I've noticed for a few years now. The technology seems to be there, it would be nice to have something done about it to assist those that can't make the games. *shrug*
Maybe they could have put the board on a swivel so that at times other than football games, it could have been spun around toward Wooster giving schedule messages, tix info, Univ stuff, ads, etc. The people sitting on Wooster during the construction need something to look at! 
