they do some replay.. but its usually quick after the play and then occasionally a quick halftime burst.
i have not seen one out of town score this year. i have not see one score scroll either. and i look consistently and hate having to fire up the phone to check on stuff around the area.. if nothing else we should be showing the IC scores this year since there is some interest in the kid is doing and its a local score of interest to those who follow division III.
stats sometimes show on the ribbon board, but not nearly often enough if you are actually a fan trying to keep in touch with the game .
cell reception has improved.. not sure how many here use the wifi, i doubt many do but there is some.
Yes, cell reception is markedly better than in the past, at least for me. I use AT&T. Props to whoever did that. I appreciate it and use my phone to overcome a lot of the problems I have with the game day experience at the Dome outlined below.
The powers that be show replays on some plays, but not close to all of them. They tend to do it really fast, so fast that I often miss most of the replay because I am still watching the end of the play (want to know who made the tackle, who caught the pass, where the ball was marked, etc.).
And they never, or almost never show controversial plays where the call does not go SU's way.
I say
1) show the replay for every play
2) hire someone who has some idea of how to direct a broadcast to decide when to show the replay, and what camera to use. When you watch on TV, they wait a bit before showing a replay so you can process what just happened. It becomes harder when a team is running a hurry up offense but that is rarely the reason replays have been so poorly handled at the Dome.
3) again, show the replay for every play. You are more likely going to start a riot not showing a controversial replay than showing it. Either way, I have not aware of any incident in the history of SU sports where showing a replay generated an ugly mob, death threats, etc. When you withhold things like this that your customers desperately want, you are telling them not to come to the Dome, to watch the game at home instead, where they can see the replay, as many times as they want (provided they have a DVR, which almost everyone has). Gave the people what they want. Please.
Out of town scores used to be shown on auxiliary scoreboards that were devoted only to that task. SU failed to maintain them properly and as the lightbulbs used to show the scores failed (they were simple old school scoreboards), they became harder and harder to read. But at least you knew where to look. They showed the games of 4 or 6 games at once and the scores were rotated fairly rapidly, so glancing at one of these scoreboards for 30 seconds gave you a good idea what was going on elsewhere in college football
Now, I think they are still trying to show scores on the main replay boards in a tiny unreadable font for very brief moments.
The out of town scores should be shown on the ribbon boards and they should be, along with real time stats, the primary things featured on these boards.
I understand using the boards to show ads sometimes (though there is more than adequate room to show an ad and out of town scores). I don't understand the fixation the people operating the ribbon scoreboards have with twitter and showing inane, worthless comments from drunk students and trippy kids. Drop that completely and use the scoreboards to provide information your audience wants. Please.
The people that are still going to the game are football fans. We want to see the game, we want to see replays, we want to see out of town scores and we want to see statistics. We don't want to hear a DJ play crappy music, we don't want to see what a 14 year old tweeted about the game and we don't want to see the same ads 400 times in a 3 hours span.
Please think of us when you make your decisions. The people that are making decisions now are completely out of touch with the fanbase and need to be replaced.
