The E-Newsletter of the North Texas Final Four Local Organizing Committee | Issue 8 | May 22, 2013
INVISIBLE MAN
For Kevin Farrar, one measure of success is if you don’t even notice that he was there BY STEVE PATE
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HOLDING COURT: Farrar (center) and volunteers.
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t all looks rather simple, watching the games play out from one’s television screen — teams of double-pumping dandies chasing after that one ball, coaches barking from the sidelines, refs blowing whistles, fans in the stands all agog.
really gotta do is put the ball in the air and let the games begin. Kevin Farrar, the assistant varsity basketball coach at Grand Prairie High, will be “practice coordinator” and “head of operations” for many behind-the-scenes details at next March’s Final Four at Cowboys Stadium. In effect, “Kevin will be the one that is in he’s the Floor Manager, contact with the NCAA® staffing overseeing the court area, as much as anybody. It’s all about the locker rooms, the scorer’s table, the trainers’ making everything as seamless rooms and almost every for each team as it can be.” area directly related to the competition itself. Farrar will But there’s so much going on at an make sure the participating teams NCAA® Final Four®. So many helpers, and referees are taken care of, working elaborately behind the from the time they enter Cowboys scenes to make it appear that all you Stadium until they leave.
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