Re: Breiner the magnificent!

[richard l. kandell]

Hey, what the he__ is this all about - never mind wasting time on human
interest stories - where is the Charlotte preview?  :-)

Richard K.

PS:  I'm just helping fill out that forum archive page with Breiner the
Magnificent subject lines.  :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "jon breiner" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Breiner the magnificent!


> I'm just going to keep replying to this thread, so when I go and check the
> forum archives on BearcatNews.com, I see a whole page of Breiner the
> Magnificent.  :)
>
> Seriously, did anyone see this?
> http://espn.go.com/ncb/news/2003/0122/1497272.html
>
> They did not say anything, but I know of one easy way a person could
affect
> the final 6.7 seconds.  I used to run a clock for and old CRC league at
> Belmont Gym (don't even think it's there anymore!).  There would be 4
games
> a night at 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30.  Well, granted it was a rec league,
> and I could not fathom playing with the clock "if it counted", but you
> wanted to make sure things ran on time.  I think they played 2 12-minute
> halves.  Well, in foul fests and the dreaded overtime games, things needed
> to get back on track in regards to time.  It was rare a minute was more
than
> 50 seconds because every time the clock got to X:10 it went to X:00.  In
> other words, I cut the last 10 seconds off many minutes.  It was done all
> the time all around in CRC leagues and from what the refs told me, they
> requested my gym sometimes because I ran one helluva clock.  :)  It is so
> easy to do, as the clock is changing from 8:11 to 8:10 you simultaneously
> reset the clock for 8:00, and you do the same at 7:11 to 7:00, etc.  I
could
> flick the clock on and off if I wanted to make each second last a bit
> longer... there were so many things you could do with that clock, it was
> rare time ran over.  The amazing things about this (and yes I know I suck
> for having done this!), I cut minutes of sometimes.  If we were way
behind,
> the clock would hit 9:00 and I would reset at 7:59 and time it with the
> change to 8:59.  Shaving seconds off literally about 1000 times over a
many
> years period, only one time did anyone ever notice.  I think it was Marty
> Wolf (for those of you who know of the Wolf family).  I put the dumbest
face
> on, the refs and I huddled around the clock for a few minutes and poked at
a
> few things, they met with the coaches an we figured out how much time the
> clock had screwed up on and asked them to watch it closely to make sure
> someone caught it if it malfunctioned again.
>
> Ok, enough of the anecdote.  I just wanted to show how easy it was 15-18
> years ago to screw with the clock.  I am sure you could do more today but
I
> have no clue what level of monitoring is done.
>
> jon b
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Nice" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Breiner the magnificent!
>
>
> > This reminds me...
> >
> > Andy, did you ever get a chance to gather the latest
> > data for all of the forum members that participate in
> > the bball picking contest?
> >
> > Just curious.
> > Scooter
> >
> > jon breiner wrote:
> > > Daggonit guys, you make me blush!
> > >
> > > Throw enough darts and occassionally you hit a bulls eye or two!
> > >
> > > And here I am wondering how to find time to write a Charlotte preview.
> > >  And now, well I feel I can not let everyone down, and since they just
> > > have Demon the gunner, it should write itself.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > jon b
> > >
> > > Zuke wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article <address@hidden>,
> > > > Carey Hoffman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Jon's done a great job forever. Someone took him to talk over in
> > > > the C-USA group for having a ECU junior listed as a senior and I
> > > > thought that's probably the first mistake he's ever made in many
> > > > years of excellent previews.
> > > >
> > > > Later,
> > > >
> > > > Zuke
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I think a recent posting mentioned Jon Breiner's hot streak
regarding
> his
> > > > > score predictions. If so, chalk up one more:
> > > > >
> > > > >        Breiner prediction:     UC 59, ECU 50
> > > > >        Actual score:           UC 59, ECU 53
> > > > >
> > > > > That goes along with these recent calls:
> > > > >
> > > > >        Breiner prediction:     UC 75, Tulane 59
> > > > >        Actual score:           UC 77, Tulane 54
> > > > >
> > > > >        Breiner prediction:     UC 64, Saint Louis 58
> > > > >        Actual score:           UC 66, Saint Louis 56
> > > > >
> > > > >        Breiner prediction:     UC 71, TCU 61
> > > > >        Actual score:           UC 83, TCU 72
> > > > >
> > > > > Your previews have always been well-researched, Jon, but this is
> almost
> > > > > mystical in your mastery.
> > > > >
> > > > > Just to keep things in hand for Mrs. Breiner around the house, let's
> throw
> > > > > this reminder in as well:
> > > > >
> > > > >        Breiner prediction      Oregon 79, UC 68
> > > > >        Actual score:           UC 77, Oregon 52