NCAA bracket on the front?

[Inky_Wretch]

If the local interest is strong enough, should a newspaper put the NCCA bracket on the front of Monday's section? Or is that a waste of space?

 

[friend of a friend]

waste of space

They'll find it inside

 

[Clever username]

Or online.

 

[TrooperBari]

waste of space

They'll find it inside

Agreed.

Having the bracket in color really doesn't matter, especially since it'll be covered in red by the end of the tournament anyway.

 

[pallister]

I've used it on the front before as the main art, with a secondary photo of the local college team. For something different, it worked out fine.

 

[BillyT]

Design-wise, it's iffy.

But it's what everyone will be looking for tomorrow.

 

[forever_town]

I wouldn't think it'd need to be on the front of a section, even a special section geared toward the NCAA Tournament.

If it's going to be marked up anyway, why waste the money cost to print it in color?

 

[Chi City 81]

We're putting it inside on a doubletruck. We sell ads for it every year.

I'm doing an illustration out front.

 

[Write-brained]

We're putting it inside on a doubletruck. We sell ads for it every year.

I'm doing an illustration out front.

That's what I was going to suggest.

edit to add: People want to print those puppies out - and be able to read them.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Years ago, we did a doubletruck of the bracket. We got complaints, because it was too big for people to put in the office copier to make brackets for the pools.

 

[AgatePage]

I've used it on the front before as the main art, with a secondary photo of the local college team. For something different, it worked out fine.

also done this in the past. Only suggestion -- put it on the outside of the page, makes it easier for the yokels to cut out and put on the copy machine. I wish I were joking.

 

[pallister]

At a previous stop, the bracket ran as a wrap around the entire paper.

 

[NatureBoy]

To make it big enough to be useable, it might become too big to run as dominant art on the front. I like the Good Doctor's idea. Even a one-page bracket with a front page refer would work.

 

[BTExpress]

I listed all the tourney teams on the front, with jerseys of the No. 1 seeds (with the jersey number as "1") topping each region.

 

[pallister]

Anyone use helmets?

 

[-Scoop-]

We're putting the main NCAA tourney story on the front, and on the jump page on the back (color page), we're running the bracket, along with another NCAA story.

 

[Football_Bat]

Half page here, section back.

 

[zebracoy]

Not sure that it belongs on the front. Hell, I don't think our paper isn't even doing anything fancy for this one. It's probably going to go on Page 7, right where it belongs, tucked in the "Where the local team is headed" story.

A full jacket - or even better, a special tab - would be nice to see, especially if it's done right. But those are such a rarety these days, anything but deep inside would be unnecessary.

 

[Petrie]

I've used it on the front before as the main art, with a secondary photo of the local college team. For something different, it worked out fine.

also done this in the past. Only suggestion -- put it on the outside of the page, makes it easier for the yokels to cut out and put on the copy machine. I wish I were joking.

Good looking out...putting on agate page right now

 

[HejiraHenry]

I've used it on the front before as the main art, with a secondary photo of the local college team. For something different, it worked out fine.

also done this in the past. Only suggestion -- put it on the outside of the page, makes it easier for the yokels to cut out and put on the copy machine. I wish I were joking.

I did it once on a long-ago Monday when there literally wasn't any space anywhere else in the section to put it. I stared and stared at the thing for a long time, finally said yo my desk guy, "what the hell."

It worked OK.