Operating GreenBobcats.net

Game Selection

By contract, the Green athletic director is only required to cover all home and away high school basketball and football games. However, all sports deserve equal attention, thus it is the intention of the current athletic director to go to ALL events whenever one is scheduled, unless there are two on the same day at different locations.
What if there are two games and both are away? The decision as to which game is covered is left solely to the athletic director's discretion.
What if there is a home game and an away game on the same day? All home games take priority.
What if there are two home games, such as baseball and softball at the same time? The AD will go back and forth between the games to get equal coverage of both events.
What if both games are away at the same location? The AD will go back and forth between the games to get equal coverage of both events.
Photos
Approximately 500 photos are taken at each event. Every effort is made to get photos of each player that enters the game. Some players may get more photos than others. However, it is mostly determined by the action on the field and/or a little bit of luck. Not all photos make to this site. Only the best are selected for publication. The rest are saved and could be used later for various purposes (i.e., a promo for next year's contest with the same team).
Videos
The target number for the videos is 30. Every effort is made to get at least 30 videos of the event. However, game circumstances and situations may cause some games to have more or less videos. The videos are loaded to Green's YouTube channel at greenbobcats1. The videos upload overnight after the event and are usually available on our site by 6:30 AM on the next day. Those who subscribe to the YouTube channel will see them as they are loaded. In some cases, they will receive a notification when a new one has finished loading. The thumbnail links of the videos are posted on the site after all videos have loaded.
Spectator Etiquette 
Spectator's should keep the following in mind when trying to communicate with the athletic director at an event. Any time the camera is in operation, there is the chance that your voice could end up on the video if you are speaking to the athletic director. If something inappropriate is spoken, then it is likely that the video that was in progress will have to be deleted. That is unfair to the student athletes, who may have done something noteworthy at that time.

When the camera is in operation, as indicated by being help up, your communication with the athletic director should be kept to a minimum as a courtesy to the players, who look forward to seeing the results later that night and the next day.

If communication is absolutely necessary, then please wait for the athletic director to stop the camera before initiating a conversation. Items discussed must be of immediate importance and should not be trivial in nature.
Spectator Photos
Anyone attending a Green Bobcats athletic event, whether at home or away, is encouraged to share their event photos with us. This is especially the case when the athletic director is not able to go to an away game due to there being a home game taking place at the same time. Anyone submitting photos used on the site will receive proper credit.
Requests for Specific Pictures
All players are equal. Anyone entering the game has an equal chance of having their picture taken and/or appearing in a video. No favoritism is shown for any player, regardless of ability or playing time. Thus, we cannot take requests for specific pictures, which would be unfair to the other players.

We do not take requests for the creation of picture CDs and/or video DVDs. The time and cost involved in that undertaking is simply too much for the athletic director to be expected to do. All pictures and videos are free to the public and anyone may download them from this site.
Upload Time
Once an event has ended, the athletic director collects the stat summary sheet from the statistician and departs the event. Once arriving at his home, the athletic director immediately begins uploading the photos and videos from the game. Additionally, a page for the game and lettering for the front page photo must also take place. This process, beginning to end, takes approximately 90 minutes. Only emergency issues from coaches and school administrators will be addressed at this time. All other communication attempts will be politely ignored so that our student athletes have the best chance of seeing themselves on the site before they go to sleep that night. In some cases, they can see themselves on their cell phones on the bus ride home from the event (depending on the distance).
Facebook
The comments feature on our Facebook has been disabled so that we may avoid having any inappropriate comments being displayed for any length of time. The athletic director does not have the time needed to monitor the Facebook page 24 hours a day.
Twitter
We do not allow comments on our Twitter feed for the same reason that we do not allow comments on our Facebook page. The Twitter feed shows up on the front page of our web site, which is viewed in more than 10 countries per week. We cannot take the risk of having any inappropriate language appear on our site.
Flickr
The comments section of our Flickr account has been disabled for the same reasons described in the Facebook section above.
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