giddy up!

Tonight's basketball game against Western Michigan was one of our men's teams first really big tests of the season. It seemed the Jags just didn't match up all that well against them. Although Hunter's game plan was obvious: find an Achilles Heel by raining three-pointers. It held up all right for the first half. Then WMU's perimeter game seemed to grind down the Jags in the second half. Sure, they made it interesting with same 11th hour heroics; but the hole was already dug.

I do believe this is how a team and program gets better -- facing tough teams in the non-conference schedule. So will the Jags get a breather? Well, they've got Louisville next. You do the math.

Tonight's game seemed to go off pretty well, from a PA/game management standpoint. Sure, we had our second scoreboard meltdown of the season. For reasons beyond any of us, the scoreboard just shuts down. Somewhere between the actual scorekeeper (the computer-looking thingy), the wires and the scoreboards, something went afoul. The only thing that works was shutting down all the power on the scorers table for a second then turning it back on. Too bad that momentarily took down the radio broadcast. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so I don't fault BuergeNation one bit. He had to do what he had to do.

The promotions -- pop-a-shot and halftime -- went well; although I must admit it's more fun when Anna and Co. can sit at the scorers table. It gives me somebody to talk to during the game (as though I don't have anything better to do with my time, eh?).

On yeah, I got a gig! Kris, the cheerleading coach asked me if I'd do PA for some big cheerleading competiton at Plainfield High School. it's a two-day event at the end of January. Why not? I don't mind being a hired hack. I imagine it won't be as much fun as these basketball games, but they're going to pay me. So giddy up!