šŸˆ Don't worry, gize. I'm solving your atrocious cell signal issues at BDS (with bonus tech observation)

Sgt. Lincoln Osiris

Sgt. Lincoln Osiris

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I'm on a tech crew that's installing a large-scale Wi-Fi network at BDS... +/- 1900...yes, one thousand and nine hundred-ish Wireless Access Points (WAPs, or APs), with network switches, etc. We're also installing fiber optic cabling as part of the network.

So, your cell signal problems at home games will be a thing of the past as of this season.

So, you're welcome.

While in the west upper deck, I observed something else really cool.

A robot. We have a freaking robot that paints the end zone lettering outlines, eliminating the need for messy, bulky stencils. Mans comes back thru with an industrial paint gun and simply paints inside the lines.

Tekk a no loooogeee!!

 
Sgt. Lincoln Osiris said:
I'm on a tech crew that's installing a large-scale Wi-Fi network at BDS... +/- 1900...yes, one thousand and nine hundred-ish Wireless Access Points (WAPs, or APs), with network switches, etc. We're also installing fiber optic cabling as part of the network.

So, your cell signal problems at home games will be a thing of the past as of this season.

So, you're welcome.

While in the west upper deck, I observed something else really cool.

A robot. We have a freaking robot that paints the end zone lettering outlines, eliminating the need for messy, bulky stencils. Mans comes back thru with an industrial paint gun and simply paints inside the lines.

Tekk a no loooogeee!!

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Are you guys installing any dedicated C-RAN sites, along with the fiber install?
 
Sgt. Lincoln Osiris said:
I'm on a tech crew that's installing a large-scale Wi-Fi network at BDS... +/- 1900...yes, one thousand and nine hundred-ish Wireless Access Points (WAPs, or APs), with network switches, etc. We're also installing fiber optic cabling as part of the network.

So, your cell signal problems at home games will be a thing of the past as of this season.

So, you're welcome.

While in the west upper deck, I observed something else really cool.

A robot. We have a freaking robot that paints the end zone lettering outlines, eliminating the need for messy, bulky stencils. Mans comes back thru with an industrial paint gun and simply paints inside the lines.

Tekk a no loooogeee!!

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Beats the old string and paint striping cart with only 3 good wheels!!
 
UAgrad93 said:
When I initially started coaching, we used a string and diesel fuel to burn the lines. We would then ā€œchalkā€ them on game day!
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Fast forward (for me) to 2011, assistant coaching at a brand new Sipsey Valley HS with a really nice field that the bleachers were still under construction so we used that as our practice field and played our home games at the old County High field.

Principal brought me on with a head coach not pegged yet. New coach that took over later that summer did that exact thing. To the gorgeous grass that would eventually be home field in a couple years.

SMH...
 
UAgrad93 said:
When I initially started coaching, we used a string and diesel fuel to burn the lines. We would then ā€œchalkā€ them on game day!
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My two oldest boys played on grass in high school, the youngest on artificial (a county bond issue put them at every school). We had a group of dads - we called ourselves The Linemen - who lined the field every Wednesday during the season. A coach would mow it during the day, and we'd line it at night, and then have a few beers. I would have an indention on my index finger for two days from spraying the yard numbers.

When my second son was playing varsity, I was the treasurer and then co-president of the booster club. The coach was a great salesman in the community, he garnered great business support, and we had a $250,000 budget to work with. He got excited about a video scoreboard that was super expensive, swore he could pay for it from advertising spots around the board. He had Coke, a local bank and a local branch of a regional car dealer lined up to fund it. It was a house of cards, and his idea was to use the excess advertising funds to get a sprint turf field that ran about 1.2 million at the time. He proposed a twenty year loan on the scoreboard and field, both of which had generous useful lives of ten years. I asked him if he had a thirty year loan on his truck, and he said, "that doesn't make sense", and I said "you've answered your own question on the board/field loan". Within two years, the bank failed and the car dealership went belly-up, but not before selling hundreds of cars out of trust. There would've been a mushroom cloud over our field if he'd gotten that loan.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
My two oldest boys played on grass in high school, the youngest on artificial (a county bond issue put them at every school). We had a group of dads - we called ourselves The Linemen - who lined the field every Wednesday during the season. A coach would mow it during the day, and we'd line it at night, and then have a few beers. I would have an indention on my index finger for two days from spraying the yard numbers.

When my second son was playing varsity, I was the treasurer and then co-president of the booster club. The coach was a great salesman in the community, he garnered great business support, and we had a $250,000 budget to work with. He got excited about a video scoreboard that was super expensive, swore he could pay for it from advertising spots around the board. He had Coke, a local bank and a local branch of a regional car dealer lined up to fund it. It was a house of cards, and his idea was to use the excess advertising funds to get a sprint turf field that ran about 1.2 million at the time. He proposed a twenty year loan on the scoreboard and field, both of which had generous useful lives of ten years. I asked him if he had a thirty year loan on his truck, and he said, "that doesn't make sense", and I said "you've answered your own question on the board/field loan". Within two years, the bank failed and the car dealership went belly-up, but not before selling hundreds of cars out of trust. There would've been a mushroom cloud over our field if he'd gotten that loan.
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Collateral?????
 
It Takes Eleven said:
My two oldest boys played on grass in high school, the youngest on artificial (a county bond issue put them at every school). We had a group of dads - we called ourselves The Linemen - who lined the field every Wednesday during the season. A coach would mow it during the day, and we'd line it at night, and then have a few beers. I would have an indention on my index finger for two days from spraying the yard numbers.

When my second son was playing varsity, I was the treasurer and then co-president of the booster club. The coach was a great salesman in the community, he garnered great business support, and we had a $250,000 budget to work with. He got excited about a video scoreboard that was super expensive, swore he could pay for it from advertising spots around the board. He had Coke, a local bank and a local branch of a regional car dealer lined up to fund it. It was a house of cards, and his idea was to use the excess advertising funds to get a sprint turf field that ran about 1.2 million at the time. He proposed a twenty year loan on the scoreboard and field, both of which had generous useful lives of ten years. I asked him if he had a thirty year loan on his truck, and he said, "that doesn't make sense", and I said "you've answered your own question on the board/field loan". Within two years, the bank failed and the car dealership went belly-up, but not before selling hundreds of cars out of trust. There would've been a mushroom cloud over our field if he'd gotten that loan.
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I'm telling you, with the ability to transfer, NIL, and things of that nature every school is trying to get LED scoreboards, the LED lights for light shows, turf, field houses, new stadiums etc just to compete. Unreal the amount of local tax increases going into affect to pay for these things. Not necessary at all, but just creating that mushroom cloud you are speaking of where the well is eventually going to run dry.

GHSA did just drop a number of new rules to combat transfers and such, but there will always be a way around those rules and the spending will continue.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
Exactly, hard to pledge or foreclose on school property. He was hoping for some parent guarantors. Like I said, house of cards.
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Right. Dig up the local high school turf or take down a fancy scoreboard....and resale to next county over.... to recoup loan.... wouldn't be much for business dealings
And parents...or boosters guarantee loan...ummmmm. I wouldn't sign
 
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