Okie State "streamlines" access for media

[Michael_ Gee]

Alma, SIDs get that way because coaches make sure athletic departments hire SIDs they know they can browbeat into being extensions of their own paranoid personalities.

 

[accguy]

Michael,

I would say that SIDs get that way because they have seen too many of their friends and colleagues get demoted or fired because they didn't do exactly what the coach wanted.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

That's what I mean. They serve at the pleasure of paranoid control freaks who are almost all total assholes as bosses. I perhaps didn't phrase that as felicitously as I wished, but it's same sentiment. Once upon a time, a time when I covered college sports, SIDs were longstanding school employees who'd seen many coaches come and go, and whose loyalty was understood to be to the institution, not the temporary asshole with the clipboard and whistle.

 

[Mark2010]

Alma, SIDs get that way because coaches make sure athletic departments hire SIDs they know they can browbeat into being extensions of their own paranoid personalities.

Yep. Exactly. Ditched that line of work because I couldn't be an apologist for coaches.

 

[hondo]

Sounds like a typical media session in Gainesville, Fla.

Yeah, no ****... Florida is legendary for only making a backup kicker and some other reserve available during Florida State week in the late 1990s.

I got this from an FSU beat writer who compared notes with his counterpart at Florida. Last season, during the week before the Florida-FSU game, Florida made four players available, and none of them played QB. FSU made 27 players available (pretty much anyone requested was brought out during lunch or after practice) and the only restriction was that you could only get EJ Manuel on Monday -- for about 35 minutes.

 

[gravehunter]

It was like the Johnny Manziel "I can't wait to get out of College Station" story that came up last summer. Kid wasn't talking serious, on-the-record stuff in any way. Never would have run that, much less made it into some "Manziel hates Aggieland" type of stories.

I once had a kid conclude an interview with the line "I gotta go get wasted". Was I going to use that? Not a chance.

I wouldn't use that kid's comment in that context either, but I certainly would have had a couple of followup questions about what he said. Then decide if it's worth using.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

It was like the Johnny Manziel "I can't wait to get out of College Station" story that came up last summer. Kid wasn't talking serious, on-the-record stuff in any way. Never would have run that, much less made it into some "Manziel hates Aggieland" type of stories.

I once had a kid conclude an interview with the line "I gotta go get wasted". Was I going to use that? Not a chance.

I wouldn't use that kid's comment in that context either, but I certainly would have had a couple of followup questions about what he said. Then decide if it's worth using.

Manziel is a Heisman Trophy winner with more than half a million Twitter followers. When he tweets something its akin to issuing a press release.

 

[Mark2010]

It was like the Johnny Manziel "I can't wait to get out of College Station" story that came up last summer. Kid wasn't talking serious, on-the-record stuff in any way. Never would have run that, much less made it into some "Manziel hates Aggieland" type of stories.

I once had a kid conclude an interview with the line "I gotta go get wasted". Was I going to use that? Not a chance.

I wouldn't use that kid's comment in that context either, but I certainly would have had a couple of followup questions about what he said. Then decide if it's worth using.

Kids say stupid **** all the time. You could do a story a day with stupid stuff people say. Wouldn't accomplish anything and you wouldn't make any friends in the process.

 

[Alma]

Sounds like a typical media session in Gainesville, Fla.

Yeah, no ****... Florida is legendary for only making a backup kicker and some other reserve available during Florida State week in the late 1990s.

I got this from an FSU beat writer who compared notes with his counterpart at Florida. Last season, during the week before the Florida-FSU game, Florida made four players available, and none of them played QB. FSU made 27 players available (pretty much anyone requested was brought out during lunch or after practice) and the only restriction was that you could only get EJ Manuel on Monday -- for about 35 minutes.

The trickle down from Bowden vs. the trickle down from Spurrier/Meyer.

Muschamp strikes me as a guy who's been the fast-riser his whole career, and thus entitled to believe every restriction he makes is a useful one.

A lot of the younger coaches are too strident.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Sounds like a typical media session in Gainesville, Fla.

Yeah, no ****... Florida is legendary for only making a backup kicker and some other reserve available during Florida State week in the late 1990s.

I got this from an FSU beat writer who compared notes with his counterpart at Florida. Last season, during the week before the Florida-FSU game, Florida made four players available, and none of them played QB. FSU made 27 players available (pretty much anyone requested was brought out during lunch or after practice) and the only restriction was that you could only get EJ Manuel on Monday -- for about 35 minutes.

The trickle down from Bowden vs. the trickle down from Spurrier/Meyer.

Muschamp strikes me as a guy who's been the fast-riser his whole career, and thus entitled to believe every restriction he makes is a useful one.

A lot of the younger coaches are too strident.

Florida probably has the worst access of any school and if FSU is like it was under Bowden, and it sounds like it is, then it probably has the best access.

I don't know how much of this can be blamed on Muschamp. Florida's access has been terrible since the late 1990s. They don't call Florida's athletic program "The Firm" for nothing.

 

[Mark2010]

I suspect by the end of the decade, if not sooner, there will NO locker room access at colleges or pro events. All interviews will have to be done in the media room with a media liaison present.

Part of the changing culture. With the internet and broadcasting, teams don't NEED the media in the way they used to. Broadcasters pay a rights fee to carry an event, so they have some leverage. Newspapers and magazines and local stations don't. And don't even get me started on bloggers? Issuing press credentials to bloggers was the most short-sighted thing ever.

 

[Alma]

Issuing press credentials to bloggers was the most short-sighted thing ever.

Works in politics like a dream.

You can control bloggers, use them to create whatever message you want, because they don't have the institution of a large paper and news organization behind them.

 

[Mark2010]

My problem with that is that anyone can do. What qualifications does one have to have in order to be a blogger? Hell, even I can be a blogger.

If you want to dissiminate propaganda, PR people do that fine.

 

[Alma]

My problem with that is that anyone can do. What qualifications does one have to have in order to be a blogger? Hell, even I can be a blogger.

If you want to dissiminate propaganda, PR people do that fine.

Who said I like bloggers.

Better to send out propaganda through sites unaffiliated with the institution. Again, politics has nailed this. Fox News is the propaganda arm of the tea party bankrollers.