Even though my team was off for two weeks due to COVID-19 protocols, I was able to get back to the booth this past week.
With all the high school games moved up to Thursday night because of Hurricane Delta, I was called in to help with our East Central Community College broadcast.
But this time, I would instead be in charge of producing our video stream and occasionally providing color commentary.
It was a nice change of pace for me since I’m usually studying film and memorizing rosters, but this time I was creating pregame and halftime graphics and figuring out a way to get a scoreboard on screen.
Things went very well once we finally got on the air. YouTube decided it wanted to completely redo the way you have to set up video streams, so I had to fix that on the fly and get a new code/link back to our producer in the studio, but it’s nothing that I couldn’t handle.
I quite enjoyed doing a little something different, because I like to get experience in all aspects of a broadcast.
However, I will be glad to return to play-by-play this week….hopefully.
Highlights of the night:
- I was able to see a high school friend of mine that I haven’t seen since high school. Amy was senior when I was a freshman and we played on the drumline together. She works at ECCC now, so it was fun to see her and talk drumline for a bit.
- I think I may have watched the best JUCO punter in the country during the game. Robens Beauplan’s punts are a thing of beauty.
- I dropped a “Die Hard” reference on commentary. If you know me, then you know.