How much are VCU and Butler covered during the regular season?

[Mizzougrad96]

I was watching the first game and wondering if either team had a beat writer that traveled to every game. I tend to doubt it, but I am curious. I'm talking every game, not just select conference games or big games. Is either team regularly covered on a daily basis?

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Can't speak for Butler, but the Times-Dispatch covers all of VCU's home games and most of their road games (it helps that the CAA is an easily navigable league -- everything's either a short drive from Richmond or a flight to a hub city). They travel unless it's something like Maui or the West Coast, or there's a crossover season issue. Nobody outside Richmond pays them any mind.

 

[Bubbler]

The Indianapolis Star has increased its Butler coverage in the last 10 years. Not sure if its traveling to every single game (they might be), but its definitely more than the near-zero coverage Butler got in the past.

Past that and the Indy TV and radio outlets, no one regularly covers Butler and no one should. Butler interest, outside of these Final Four runs, is close to nonexistent elsewhere in the state.

 

[dragonzo]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Star has done every Butler game, at least this season.

 

[Dick Whitman]

The Indianapolis Star's Web site design has underwhelmed me big-time throughout this Butler run.

Check it out: "Shelvin Mack leads Butler into title game."

Sounds like an Onion version of a NYT headline of a huge event.

 

[playthrough]

In their defense...the Star's website is always underwhelming.

I think Butler has gotten very good coverage this year, but for their audience mediocre IU teams are much bigger news.

 

[Stitch]

In their defense...the Star's website is always underwhelming.

I think Butler has gotten very good coverage this year, but for their audience mediocre IU teams are much bigger news.

No excuse not to travel now.

 

[SoCalDude]

In their defense...the Star's website is always underwhelming.

I think Butler has gotten very good coverage this year, but for their audience mediocre IU teams are much bigger news.

No excuse not to travel now.

There'$ alway$ an excu$e not to travel.

 

[Shaggy]

What schools do the Richmond paper cover? VCU, Richmond, UVa? VaTech?

 

[flexmaster33]

If the Indy Star isn't covering Butler every game (give or take the snoozers in nonleague) after the run the Bulldogs made last year, then they missed the boat big time.

Matt Stevens and the Butler players seem to handle themselves well on TV, so I'm guessing they've have plenty of interview experience.

 

[Matt1735]

If the Indy Star isn't covering Butler every game (give or take the snoozers in nonleague) after the run the Bulldogs made last year, then they missed the boat big time.

Matt Brad Stevens and the Butler players seem to handle themselves well on TV, so I'm guessing they've have plenty of interview experience.

Fixed.

 

[93Devil]

What schools do the Richmond paper cover? VCU, Richmond, UVa? VaTech?

VCU is the pro team of Richmond. It amazes me they don't play football.

Richmond football is big in the fall, but no one from Richmond goes to Richmond. It's sort of like UNC/Duke where northerners go to Duke/Richmond and people from Virginia/NC attend UNC/VCU.

There is a little bit of Virginia State/Virginia Union coverage, but in Richmond, it's VCU-Rbraves-UofR-Tech-UVa.

Actually, it's a pretty crappy sports town when you think about it and consider the size (a million people) of the metro area.

 

[Stitch]

Where do the Eastern League Flying Squirrels factors into the list since they replaced the Braves?

 

[93Devil]

Where do the Eastern League Flying Squirrels factors into the list since they replaced the Braves?

I'm sorry. RBraves should be F'n Squirrels.

They pretty much spilt time with NASCAR as the main game in town.

This veiw is from a reader.

 

[Steak Snabler]

The Indianapolis Star's Web site design has underwhelmed me big-time throughout this Butler run.

Check it out: "Shelvin Mack leads Butler into title game."

Sounds like an Onion version of a NYT headline of a huge event.

In their defense...the Star's website is always underwhelming.

I think Butler has gotten very good coverage this year, but for their audience mediocre IU teams are much bigger news.

They're Gannett. All the Gannett paper websites are set up the same way. And they all pretty much suck (though they're not as hard-to-navigate as the McClatchy sites).

 

[Versatile]

http://www.indystar.com/

You're underwhelmed? What do you want?

 

[Dick Whitman]

http://www.indystar.com/

You're underwhelmed? What do you want?

Banner headline above the fold, to begin.

A score graphic that doesn't look like it crawled out of 1987.

 

[Versatile]

http://www.indystar.com/

You're underwhelmed? What do you want?

Banner headline above the fold, to begin.

A score graphic that doesn't look like it crawled out of 1987.

I can agree with those criticisms. But those are criticisms of quality. That package is plenty big, if not very pretty.

 

[zebracoy]

http://www.indystar.com/

You're underwhelmed? What do you want?

Banner headline above the fold, to begin.

A score graphic that doesn't look like it crawled out of 1987.

I can agree with those criticisms. But those are criticisms of quality. That package is plenty big, if not very pretty.

There's really a countdown clock to next year's Super Bowl on the main page? Eek.

 

[BillyT]

Can we now list the papers in Connecticut that *don't* have a UConn beat writer?

Heck, 10 years ago there were even more papers that beat them.