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  • Scoreboard problems

    Has anybody heard why the scoreboards can't show down and distance, and yard line in the 3rd quarter? Noticed it at the last home game and today. Works just fine for the 1st, 2nd and 4th quarters. Does the scoreboard not know when halftime is over

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    Re: Scoreboard problems

    Originally posted by havok58 View Post
    Has anybody heard why the scoreboards can't show down and distance, and yard line in the 3rd quarter? Noticed it at the last home game and today. Works just fine for the 1st, 2nd and 4th quarters. Does the scoreboard not know when halftime is over
    Nothing interesting has happened in the 3rd quarter this year so far

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    • #3
      Re: Scoreboard problems

      if the scoreboard knows that halftime is over, does that mean that SkyNet is live?

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      • #4
        Re: Scoreboard problems

        Originally posted by kochrab View Post
        Nothing interesting has happened in the 3rd quarter this year so far
        Awesome!

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        • #5
          Re: Scoreboard problems

          All jokes aside, has anybody heard of why the glitch just affects the 3rd quarter?

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          • #6
            Probably the same reason we can't show stats...

            Sent from my GS6
            If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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            • #7
              Re: Scoreboard problems

              Originally posted by UNIAlum95 View Post
              we can't show stats...
              I tried to bend Harris's ear about this every time we met him last spring.

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              • #8
                Re: Scoreboard problems

                Originally posted by UNIAlum95 View Post
                Probably the same reason we can't show stats...

                Sent from my GS6
                Seems that with two scoreboards we should be able to show team stats each quarter and for the game.

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                • #9
                  Re: Scoreboard problems

                  On TV they never show down and distance until a second or two before the next snap. Are they getting that from the scoreboard?

                  I guess I need to go back to tracking it myself like I did before they started showing it on the screen at all times 25 years ago. Technology in use for every college and pro fb game except UNI has made me lazy.
                  GO PANTHERS!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Scoreboard problems

                    I find it easier to look at the sticks than the scoreboard for down and distance anyway. But maybe that's just me.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Scoreboard problems

                      Unfortunately on the west side, the closer you are to the field, the line of sight for the markers is difficult to see at certain points. I guess I'm conditioned like pavlov's dog to keep glancing up at the scoreboard after a play is over. Plus, our sound system is so bad I can't understand what is being said most of the time.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Scoreboard problems

                        back in my college days I'm spent some time as a spotter in the booth, so I got used to looking at the sticks (or the markers on the other side of the field), and the sideline officials marking the spot. And I guess I never got out of the habit.

                        But I can definitely understand people being frustrated with it not being on the scoreboard.

                        and I have the same issue with the sound system.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Scoreboard problems

                          Originally posted by vbfan19 View Post
                          I find it easier to look at the sticks than the scoreboard for down and distance anyway. But maybe that's just me.
                          Oh if I'm at the game I never look at the scoreboard. But on TV you can't see the whole field most of the time and it's tougher to know where the ball is, so I've come to rely on the on screen down and distance.
                          GO PANTHERS!

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                          • #14
                            Re: Scoreboard problems

                            There is a glitch in the control unit.

                            Unfortunately, sometimes we can unplug the unit and it reboots and sometimes not.

                            To the gnat's behind...........the numbers 1, 2, 3 are the problems on the unit.

                            Dan Holmes
                            Always a UNI Panther.

                            "Don't weigh em, don't measure em, just play em."

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                              Re: Scoreboard problems

                              Originally posted by Winder/aka Dan Holmes View Post
                              There is a glitch in the control unit.

                              Unfortunately, sometimes we can unplug the unit and it reboots and sometimes not.

                              To the gnat's behind...........the numbers 1, 2, 3 are the problems on the unit.

                              Dan Holmes
                              Thanks for the reply! Hope we can get a new unit for next season.

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