NCAA can bite me

We were whining over $9.50, Mr. Exaggeration.

 

Temple was screwed, man. Screwed.

 

I think the point is simply that offering dependable wifi service costs money. If someone chooses to offer it for free because they feel it helps them make money in some other way, that's their right. However, I also don't blame them for charging a nominal fee.

That said, I'd expect that the wifi you pay for ought to be fast and reliable. If you're paying and still getting the same crappy service a lot of free providers give you, then you have a right to bitch.

 

Don't forget BYU, ranked 14th in the country and they get a 7 seed.

 

The NCAA is going to have to have wifi service for its own needs. Not like it is ordering it for the scribes.

Often, you might work at an arena all year using the wifi there and suddenly at tournament time they want to charge you $9.50 or whatever a day.

That's what pisses people off.

 

It's union Internet.

 

I agree that you are chained to the arena when you're working. And any cheaper/free sources in-arena are shut down by the NCAA for the tournament.
Example: I covered the ACC Tournament at the St. Pete Times Forum in 2007 - the wireless was free.
I covered the NCAA Tournament there a year later - wireless was $16.50 a day.
That's why I'm bringing my CrackBerry and USB cord with me when I shuffle off to my regional destination tomorrow.

 

Yeah, exactly. I reckon either DMN and/or FWST is probably following UNT, and where do you get off implying that one of those writers is a career failure???? You can do a whole heckuva lot worse than be a DMN or FWST staffer.

grow a brain, pal!

 

NCAA women's wireless for free??? You can hold out for better than that. Twist their arm and they'll pay you $25 a game to cover their tournament. lol

 

Back when I was covering the NCAAs in 1980s, we got pony express for free and access to one telegraph in the arena for $150 a day. Fee was reduced to $125 if we knew Morse code and could send story ourselves.