Orange Blossom 100: Thoughts

[Todd McCreary]

Todd can go it alone on the scoreboard.

yeah, but you could still pick up the controller, you slacker.

i'm much more likely to be up to your place again before i'm back over to OSW.

[Joker139]

Mark have ya'll checked into Pepsi or another company. I seem to Remember a track a several years ago getting one for free from a vendor but it had their name on it but who cares. Bob...

Thats actually not a bad idea. Several years ago I was working with the football program at our local high school. Our scoreboard got fried so we contacted Coca-Cola. They bought us a new scoreboard, but like Bob said, it had to say Coca-Cola on it. We also had to agree to a contract to sell only Coke products for a certain time frame. Hey, you don't know if you don't ask. All they can do is say no.

[Mark Keeler]

Thats actually not a bad idea. Several years ago I was working with the football program at our local high school. Our scoreboard got fried so we contacted Coca-Cola. They bought us a new scoreboard, but like Bob said, it had to say Coca-Cola on it. We also had to agree to a contract to sell only Coke products for a certain time frame. Hey, you don't know if you don't ask. All they can do is say no.

We have actually been down that road with a company that shall remain nameless... The result... Based on the contract the large company has with the scoreboard manufacturer (this is what I was personally told by the manufacturer)... we got the bottom of the barrel for a scoreboard... TRUST ME... In the last 2 years I have had to personally replace all of the interior modules (some more than once), and both the radio sending unit and receiving unit... not to mention they used a scoreboard that requires light bulbs as opposed to LEDs... when I contacted the company to see if there was an alternative to replacing 20+ bulbs per week... their rep said "why in the hell would they put lights bulbs in a racetrack scoreboard"... he followed that up with... "oh I get it now... this deal was done through (nameless corporation)"... That is why the scoreboard was moved up to turn two although it got bitched about on here when it was done... It was done to limit the vibration causing the bulbs to burn out. And I am not bashing the large company... They have to look out for themselves as well when it comes to an expense this big...

And that is not where it stopped... there was another deal done for a Video Display Board that cost close to 6-figures... Problem with that was the company was only authorized to provide and indoor setup which was placed outdoors and has caused more headaches over the past 4 years than it has helped...

I have been looking into the scoreboard situation on my own now for 3 years... it is not a new problem. I know it seems like has just become a topic recently, but fact is... there are a LOT of issues at both racetracks that get discussed behind the scenes and never see the light of day on a message board... and really have no place on a message board.

Again, someone asked a question... and when an answer was provided... it was deemed 'not good enough' and has now been hashed out over the course of 20+ posts...

There are options being explored and that is the bottom line and should probably be the end of the discussion... But I know it won't be!