Media Day Blackout

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:06 am

Does anyone else find it strange that there's been virtually no coverage of anything Gregg Brandon, Devon Parks or Kory Lichtensteiger had to say during MAC Media Day? Google results turn up almost nothing in terms of articles or features.

The day after MAC Media Day, The Blade did a story on the UT running back situation and a general MAC article with a couple comments from Brandon. This week alone, there was another article on UT plus a photo feature titled "ROCKETS READY FOR TAKEOFF," surely a headline only a BG-biased paper (cough, cough) would have.

Maybe the local TV stations had more coverage not seen by us outside Northwest Ohio and perhaps the Blade (and the BG News for that matter) is saving a bunch of BG stuff for later, but it does seem rather odd.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:30 am

Maybe you should check this site once in a while see if they have anything. http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/sports/m-fo ... 06aaa.html

And the Sent Trib had a story on Tuesday. That's where I got the info that I posted here: http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB2/v ... hp?t=12026

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:38 am

I'm having trouble finding stuff as well. Why dont they just put in on the U? Every other conference has been on there including the Mtn West!

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:58 am

Warthog wrote:Maybe you should check this site once in a while see if they have anything. http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/sports/m-fo ... 06aaa.html

And the Sent Trib had a story on Tuesday. That's where I got the info that I posted here: http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB2/v ... hp?t=12026

Wow...not even a cutesy emoticon to mollify that biting sarcasm. Uh, yeah, I check the school website. I wasn't referring to the school website, I was referring to the MEDIA REPORTING on the event from MEDIA DAY. Here's where I'd make a crack about taking a reading comprehension course if I wanted to follow your lead and make a imbecilic attempt at an insult.

The Sentinel also doesn't have a website with story contents and thus isn't seen by those of us outside Wood County. Posting info gleaned from it is indeed appreciated as they do a great job of going beyond the obvious and providing some insight.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:00 pm

BGSUFootballFan wrote:I'm having trouble finding stuff as well. Why dont they just put in on the U? Every other conference has been on there including the Mtn West!

That would be a good idea. The conference website does have archives of short interviews they did themselves with the players and coaches:

http://mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml? ... LID=518587

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:57 pm

On bgsufalcons.com there is a photo gallery of media day:

And that is Maureen Fulton conducting the interview so I would say watch for something in the Bland.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:12 pm

JoeFalcon wrote:Posting info gleaned from it is indeed appreciated

Your welcome.

Don't know where you are located Joe, so I am wondering what kind of coverage you would expect to see from the MAC media day. BGSUFalcons.com had a story. The Sent had a story. The Toledo TV stations did stories on Monday. 1470 the Ticket had an interview with Brandon that they played on Tuedsay. Outside of this market area, I wouldn't expect BG to get much coverage due to the low expectations for this season.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:59 pm

Warthog wrote:
JoeFalcon wrote:Posting info gleaned from it is indeed appreciated
Your welcome.

Don't know where you are located Joe, so I am wondering what kind of coverage you would expect to see from the MAC media day. BGSUFalcons.com had a story. The Sent had a story. The Toledo TV stations did stories on Monday. 1470 the Ticket had an interview with Brandon that they played on Tuedsay. Outside of this market area, I wouldn't expect BG to get much coverage due to the low expectations for this season.

I suppose I'm just looking for any coverage at all. The two largest search engines in the world yieled nothing from external print or archived electronic media sources except a snippet from a Michigan newspaper on area BG player Cody Basler. I can't tell you exactly what I expected, but it was a bit more than that.

The sources you cited are terrific but completely inaccesible to those outside the area (except when you or orangeandbrown are generous enough to share Sentinel info), so people like us have to rely on the other stuff. This is particularly disconcerting given the coverage UT got from the Blade, future stories notwithstanding.

Expectations and proportionality may be legitimate issues, especially this year, but I'm not ready to lower them to a point where 8 sentences in a Michigan newspaper is all the winningest MAC program since 2001 is allotted in the MAC media landscape.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:54 pm

There was this from the Plain Dealer:

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.s ... col&coll=2

It's something.

theziggies · Post by **theziggies** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:29 pm

UT started practice four days earlier than BG ...

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:07 pm

Dayons_Den wrote:

Why is Maureen accosting him with a laser pointer??

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:12 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:
Dayons_Den wrote:
Why is Maureen accosting him with a laser pointer??

That isn't a laser pointer. It's a truth-getting device.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:17 pm

Bleeding Orange wrote:
ZiggyZoomba wrote:
Dayons_Den wrote:
Why is Maureen accosting him with a laser pointer??
That isn't a laser pointer. It's a truth-getting device.

Nice try, BO, but we all know journalists don't care about the truth!

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:33 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:
Nice try, BO, but we all know journalists don't care about the truth!

And...que '87's evil scowling...now.

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:53 pm

Warthog wrote:
JoeFalcon wrote:Posting info gleaned from it is indeed appreciated
Your welcome.

Don't know where you are located Joe, so I am wondering what kind of coverage you would expect to see from the MAC media day. BGSUFalcons.com had a story. The Sent had a story. The Toledo TV stations did stories on Monday. 1470 the Ticket had an interview with Brandon that they played on Tuedsay. Outside of this market area, I wouldn't expect BG to get much coverage due to the low expectations for this season.

The Columbus Dispatch even had something about MAC media day. The first few paragraphs were dedicated to coach Brandon's suit.