{"id":718,"date":"2015-03-18T02:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=718"},"modified":"2015-03-18T02:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T02:45:25","slug":"the-highs-and-lows-of-sideline-announcers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"The highs and lows of sideline announcers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a horrible job to be that poor soul that has to pull aside one of the head coaches at halftime and interview one of the coaches.<\/p>\n<p>In the BYU &#8211; Ole Miss game, the reporter started off with a great question.\u00a0 One of BYU&#8217;s stars, Kyle Collinsworth, left the court late in the first question favoring the knee he had ACL surgery on last year.\u00a0\u00a0 BYU&#8217;s Dave Rose answered well also &#8211; letting everyone know that Collinsworth looked like he would be alright and play in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the low.\u00a0 The reported asked Rose what type of adjustments they were going to make in the second half.\u00a0\u00a0 For those not watching, BYU is currently leading at halftime, 49-32.\u00a0\u00a0 When you are up 17 points, you likely don&#8217;t make a lot of adjustments.\u00a0 I even think I heard a little chuckle from Rose as he composed himself to answer.\u00a0 He answered the stupid question nicely &#8211; but I am sure if he wasn&#8217;t being so nice, he could have easily answered &#8211; &#8220;In all my years of coaching, I have learned one thing.\u00a0\u00a0 When you are winning by 17 points at halftime, you don&#8217;t make adjustments &#8211; you keep attacking with the game plan that has gotten you a huge lead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great first half by the Cougars &#8211; hopefully, Collinsworth really is OK.\u00a0 Would love to see this team at full strength keep knocking down shots from everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a horrible job to be that poor soul that has to pull aside one of the head coaches at halftime and interview one of the coaches. In the BYU &#8211; Ole Miss game, the reporter started off with a great question.\u00a0 One of BYU&#8217;s stars, Kyle Collinsworth, left the court late in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}