the 105-second conversation.

One thing I will most certainly miss when I "retire" from this PA gig is the scorers table camaraderie. I've been working with the same cast of characters for about seven years.

Seven years...wow.

In that time I've seen divorces, deaths (of their loved ones), marriages, promotions and so on.

I'm so used to seeing Joe O. in a striped shirt sitting to my right and Greg Rakestraw sitting to my left that, come next basketball season, I'm going to have to get cardboard cutouts of them just so I know how to behave at a basketball game.

In these past seven years, the gameday crew and I have gotten used to having a full conversation during a media timeout. As the band plays or cheerleaders cheer, we stop what we're doing for 105 seconds and have a conversation. It's kind of funny, really. We pack a lot in those few moments we have. Once that first horn sounds, we're back to business. Joe's on the book, one of the Matts is on the shot clock, CD is on the game clock, Buerge and Adrian or JD or another Kevin are down there doing the stats. And Sherrill's on the phones. Amidst all that racket, we work calmly next to the eye of the storm.

I'm already missing it.