Let me preface this by saying I am pulling for Kent State this weekend in baseball, but I think it is insulting to the other 11 MAC schools that the MAC website has eight straight stories on its front page dedicated to Kent State.
We have numerous student-athletes from across the conference going to NCAA Championships in Track and Field and there is no mention of them anywhere on the front page.
Congrats to Kent, but it is unfortunate how little coverage some of the programs in the MAC get from their own conference.
They did a whole write up of it back on the 24th when it was relevant and seeing how the championship doesn't start until tomorrow what would the purpose of it be? I'm sure there will be an article tomorrow and over the following 3 days of the championship as long as individuals continue to move on.
http://www.mac-sports.com/News/tabid/969...aries.aspx
I wouldn't be so sure about that since it sounds like Jeremy Guy is travelling as Kent State's personal assistant.
(06-05-2012 11:02 AM)BullBoy Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't be so sure about that since it sounds like Jeremy Guy is travelling as Kent State's personal assistant.
Correct me if I am wrong, but baseball and track and field are the only two sports still going right now.
3 months ago you would have thought he was Ohio's personal assistant. It's his job to follow MAC sports. Kent just happens to be really hot right now. They deserve the coverage. It's not like one of our baseball teams makes a run like this every year.
Their job is to highlight the accomplishments of athletic department, not just the two sports going on. Right now on buffalo's website they have an article about their GPA being over a 3.0 for the Spring, which is pretty outstanding, but nowhere to be found on the MAC's site
(06-05-2012 11:16 AM)BullBoy Wrote: [ -> ]Their job is to highlight the accomplishments of athletic department, not just the two sports going on. Right now on buffalo's website they have an article about their GPA being over a 3.0 for the Spring, which is pretty outstanding, but nowhere to be found on the MAC's site
I think you are being a little sensitive.
When one of our unversity makes noise on a national level, it warrants extra attention. There is no way around that.
The MAC website strives to have equal coverage, but that is an impossible task given how the world of sports unfolds.
I just think eight straight stories on one school is a little excessive.. I am not saying kent doesn't deserve the coverage on their success, but other schools are suffering from their lack of visibility on the conference's website right now.
(06-05-2012 11:16 AM)BullBoy Wrote: [ -> ]Their job is to highlight the accomplishments of athletic department, not just the two sports going on. Right now on buffalo's website they have an article about their GPA being over a 3.0 for the Spring, which is pretty outstanding, but nowhere to be found on the MAC's site
NIU's athletes had a GPA over 3.0 for 11 consecutive semesters and that never made the MAC page.
(06-05-2012 11:36 AM)BullBoy Wrote: [ -> ]I just think eight straight stories on one school is a little excessive.. I am not saying kent doesn't deserve the coverage on their success, but other schools are suffering from their lack of visibility on the conference's website right now.
I disagree. There is no suffering by the rest of us. If anything, it helps our conference in the credibility dept.
Every school has grade point success stories of one kind or another, but it's only of small interest to even that school's fans. There's just not much to say about college students getting 3.0+. OK, they got it. Great. Where is the news angle? Maybe if they were all flunking the semester before, you'd have a story.
The MAC site should focus on athletic accomplishment, and they do that. NCAA track championships are Wed.-Sat. There will be stories about it.
KSU's baseball team is now ranked #13 in the country. Maybe that will be the 9th straight story. It should be. Nobody else has anything going on today.
(06-05-2012 01:30 PM)axeme Wrote: [ -> ]Every school has grade point success stories of one kind or another, but it's only of small interest to even that school's fans. There's just not much to say about college students getting 3.0+. OK, they got it. Great. Where is the news angle? Maybe if they were all flunking the semester before, you'd have a story.
The MAC site should focus on athletic accomplishment, and they do that. NCAA track championships are Wed.-Sat. There will be stories about it.
KSU's baseball team is now ranked #13 in the country. Maybe that will be the 9th straight story. It should be. Nobody else has anything going on today.
I don't think bullboy realizes the significance of what kent is doing right now in baseball.
They are on a sick run in a sport that is dominated by schools in southern states.
Making it to Omaha is big time. Hopefully they keep it going and make it happen.
A little O/T but does anybody know if any baseball players from your school's team were picked in yesterday's entry draft? I'd be surprised if KSU didn't have anybody picked.
Now, if this was the SEC then maybe academics are a big story, maybe even a national story, but I am happy to say that since MAC schools always seem to have such academic success that it is no longer a big story to us fans.
(06-05-2012 02:53 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: [ -> ]A little O/T but does anybody know if any baseball players from your school's team were picked in yesterday's entry draft? I'd be surprised if KSU didn't have anybody picked.
It seems from twitter that the draft is today and yes a Kent St player was picked.
Also a UB player was picked rather early.
(06-05-2012 02:53 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: [ -> ]A little O/T but does anybody know if any baseball players from your school's team were picked in yesterday's entry draft? I'd be surprised if KSU didn't have anybody picked.
I think three have gone so far. Tom Murphy from Buffalo went first early in the third round to Colorado. I believe David Starn from Kent and I think Streicher from Ohio also both were drafted today.
I know some of KSU's (and I'm sure other schools') players are not eligible to be drafted under the complex rules of the NCAA and MLB . If they were drafted out of HS, and elected to go to college, for example. I'm not sure, but I think they have to wait 3 years after they initially were drafted.
Thanks, as I was a bit unclear on those rules. The MLB draft is quite another animal than the NBA or NFL.
I saw a stat the other day that only around 50% of all first round draft picks ever make it to the majors. That's how much of a crap shoot evaluating talent is in the MLB world. Didn't mean to derail the thread.
I saw a guy in a U at Buffalo sweatshirt on 8th Avenue yesterday in Manhattan at lunchtime. Should I report this story to the MAC offices?
(06-05-2012 05:05 PM)MacLord Wrote: [ -> ]I saw a guy in a U at Buffalo sweatshirt on 8th Avenue yesterday in Manhattan at lunchtime. Should I report this story to the MAC offices?
Nah, but you have the right to complain if there isn't an article on it.
where is the article on the guys drafted today??