GUMBA
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Post by GUMBA on Feb 24, 2007 11:10:34 GMT -5
I spoke with an editor of the Post Sports section recently and he told me they have tried to increase their coverage of the Hoyas and that JTIII has done a much better job at giving them the kind of access they get from other programs. That said, he explained that the numbers do not favor us. They track the number of hits for stories on the web and you can imagine that the Terp fans out click the Hoya fans by large numbers. Eyeballs sell advertising and advertising sells newspapers.
I personally think Camille is doing a good job but that the other columnists are clearly not on the bandwagon. Keep winning and they will apy attention. Wilbon's 'Gary needs more love' column looked desperate to me. Junior usually writes that piece this time of the year. They will probably lose two of their next three and could exit quickly from the ACC tournament. So if they lose three of their next four and finish .500 in the ACC do they make it? Maybe, maybe not.
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lichoya68
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 24, 2007 11:18:02 GMT -5
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mapei
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Post by mapei on Feb 24, 2007 11:39:37 GMT -5
I spoke with an editor of the Post Sports section recently and he told me they have tried to increase their coverage of the Hoyas and that JTIII has done a much better job at giving them the kind of access they get from other programs. That said, he explained that the numbers do not favor us. They track the number of hits for stories on the web and you can imagine that the Terp fans out click the Hoya fans by large numbers. Eyeballs sell advertising and advertising sells newspapers. I personally think Camille is doing a good job but that the other columnists are clearly not on the bandwagon. Keep winning and they will apy attention. Wilbon's 'Gary needs more love' column looked desperate to me. Junior usually writes that piece this time of the year. They will probably lose two of their next three and could exit quickly from the ACC tournament. So if they lose three of their next four and finish .500 in the ACC do they make it? Maybe, maybe not. Bingo, GUMBA. There are just far, far more MD alums in the area than Hoya alums, plus people who identify with MD because it's "their" state school. Newspaper readers just don't care about us as much. (Those of you who hate Duke - and I don't - may be comforted by the fact that UNC gets far more coverage in North Carolina, even in years when their team isn't that good.) I do think this has the potential to change over time if the winning tradition begun by JT3 holds up.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Feb 24, 2007 11:52:03 GMT -5
How is is possible not to hate Duke?
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Feb 24, 2007 13:25:33 GMT -5
I don't hate Duke. I hate Maryland.
That being said the Post's reasons for not giving more coverage is still BS. With the sales of newspapers going steadily down you should try to maximize your audience rather than minimize your focus. The Post can't possibly lure any more Terp fans to buy its newspapers by covering the Maryland football and basketball team to death. The newspaper has maxed out on that front. But have they maximize their coverage of Gtown? Have they thought about sending a reporter every once in awhile to cover a game for American or Howard? Sure those numbers can't add up to rival maryland's fanbase but that's not the point. The point is you may be able to attract a few thousand or more people to actually pay money because their favorite school is actually getting an article, column or feature written about it's program or players. Or perhaps they will read the online articles thereby increasing the amount of hits on the Post's website.
By the way I never suggested the amount of people interested in the Hoyas is anywhere near as great as those who are interested in Maryland. But a winning team in a major conference deserve more ink from the paper than what the Hoyas are getting.
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kchoya
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Post by kchoya on Feb 25, 2007 11:42:02 GMT -5
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Post by TigerHoya on Feb 25, 2007 12:03:45 GMT -5
I spoke with an editor of the Post Sports section recently and he told me they have tried to increase their coverage of the Hoyas and that JTIII has done a much better job at giving them the kind of access they get from other programs. That said, he explained that the numbers do not favor us. They track the number of hits for stories on the web and you can imagine that the Terp fans out click the Hoya fans by large numbers. Eyeballs sell advertising and advertising sells newspapers. I personally think Camille is doing a good job but that the other columnists are clearly not on the bandwagon. Keep winning and they will apy attention. Wilbon's 'Gary needs more love' column looked desperate to me. Junior usually writes that piece this time of the year. They will probably lose two of their next three and could exit quickly from the ACC tournament. So if they lose three of their next four and finish .500 in the ACC do they make it? Maybe, maybe not. Bingo, GUMBA. There are just far, far more MD alums in the area than Hoya alums, plus people who identify with MD because it's "their" state school. Newspaper readers just don't care about us as much. (Those of you who hate Duke - and I don't - may be comforted by the fact that UNC gets far more coverage in North Carolina, even in years when their team isn't that good.) I do think this has the potential to change over time if the winning tradition begun by JT3 holds up. I've noticed there may be as many UNC bandwagon fans in this part of MD as there are Twerp fans. I think maybe the Twerp fans actually have the Tarholes as their fallback team in some cases.
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TrueHoyaBlue
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Feb 25, 2007 12:24:10 GMT -5
And excellent timing for the column on Florida's dominance, choosing not to even mention LSU's pasting of the Gators (despite the fact that there were a good 6-8 hours between that final and the article's deadline).
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HealyHoya
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Post by HealyHoya on Feb 25, 2007 12:48:26 GMT -5
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