(03-15-2014 01:51 PM)BigHouston Wrote: (03-15-2014 12:48 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: That article is from the Houston Chronicle. Its like the Chronicle just became aware of changes coming in college athletics That's the Chronicles 5th article in 2 days regarding this subject. They did a s series of 4 articles yesterday focusing on the possible affects of the changing NCAA governance on the Houston areas FBS schools, the areas smaller FCS universities, college sports in general, as well as the affects on individual student athletes. I included the links below. The top article is the overview and covers the most. The other 3 are written more about the changes from the standpoint of G5, FCS, and individual players.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/c...cb15e6e#/0
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/c...cb15e6e#/0
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/c...cb15e6e#/0
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/c...cb15e6e#/0
The Houston Chronicle isn't known to propup UH conference... The Chronicle is doing a lot better now that Houston is in a better conference though.
I blasted them the other day with an email about there coverage of UH and Rice or lack of. Here what I the editor and couple other contacts within the there executive staff. If more people would do the same, maybe they I'll get the message. I pulled no punches with them.
Dear Editor,
I usually don’t write letters, but I have some great concern about this paper and its coverage of things that are important to the city of Houston, now I don’t see how talking about the University of Texas at Austin in a local Houston paper serves any true purpose, I know you are a graduate of UT Austin, and your rightly, proud of your Alma Mater, but to give a university that’s about 200 miles away from this city front page coverage , I don’t quite understand, when it’s supposed to be, a local Houston paper. I know your thinking is well it’s about the University of Texas, Texas’ university; my retort is all state supported universities are Texas universities. I took this quote from your site about you….There is a greater emphasis on lively, engaging writing and a tighter focus on local topical issues (a cruel hoax played on the citizens of Houston, a bad joke, how UT Austin is local, I have no idea) as well as the broad themes that define the nation’s fourth-largest city ". You do your paper and the citizenry of this city a great disservice, by pumping up UT Austin, Texas A&M in this market (I know they have a large amount of alums from both schools in this market, but there are over 200k alum from UH and vast majority of them stay in this market-Houston), The Chronicle is suppose to be a local Houston paper covering all things Houston according to your own website and supposedly been charge to so. Now, I’m not the only one who feels this way, I’ve had many a discussion with others on social boards and circles, about this matter, and it’s one of biggest reasons I do not subscribe to this paper and many others do not as well(ever thought this maybe , one reason why your subscribership and readership continues to drop). If you have 200k plus graduates from a certain school, with a vast majority, still living that city and they tell one other about how sorry of a paper the Chronicle is, you don’t think that would harm and decrease your subscribership and readership? Every person I know, quite frankly considers the Chronicle a corporate rag, not a local paper... You give short shrift to the local universities, the cities Namesake University, the University of Houston and Rice. It is quite obvious to the longtime residence in this city about the bias that’s going on at this paper, against the local universities and the pumping up of outside schools. We do not have a University of Texas in Houston 4 year university , we have a University of Houston and Rice U two top rated universities. Like the wise saying said, "pride cometh before destruction" keep on and the Chronicle may find its self in the trash bin of history.
email contact: jeff.cohen@chron.com exec v.p. editor
email contact: nancy.barnes@chron.com in charge of increasing audience
email contact: john.oloughlin@chron.com President (got a auto response email saying he was out of the office LOL)