SEC women's tournament

[JayFarrar]

Who is coming the SEC women's tournament next week in Little Rock?
I'll be there and I was wanting to post amusing running threads on the hotness of the intern help and how many Diet Dr Peppers people could drink in one day.
You know, typical SEC running thread material.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm guessing the AJC and the Tennessean will not be there. :)

 

[Rockbottom]

Yeah. Um, have fun with that. :)

rb

 

[JayFarrar]

SEC interns do tend to run hot.
I might learn how to post pictures just for the event.
Of course, I'm kinda wondering who will actually be here.
SEC says they've been flooded with requests, but a fair chunk of the major SEC player papers don't intend on covering it.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

SEC interns do tend to run hot.
I might learn how to post pictures just for the event.
Of course, I'm kinda wondering who will actually be here.
SEC says they've been flooded with requests, but a fair chunk of the major SEC player papers don't intend on covering it.

Since Arkansas isn't really driving distance from anywhere other than maybe the Mississippi schools, I really wonder how many of the hometown papers will cover this at all.

Georgia - Athens, Macon, Atlanta - Will be surprised if any cover it.
Tennessee - Knoxville, Chattanoogo, Nashville - Probably Knoxville
Florida - Gainesville, Orlando, Jville, Tampa, St. Pete - Almost certainly no one.
Arkansas - Obviously all the local papers will be there.
Ole Miss - I'm assuming Memphis will be there. Clarion Ledger? I don't know.
Mississippi State - Maybe someone from Memphis covers both Mississippi schools.
LSU - Baton Rouge? Maybe. Times Picayune? I doubt it.
Vandy - Not if the Tennessean isn't going.
Auburn - Maybe one person from the Birmingham paper goes to cover both Alabama schools. Same deal for Mobile. I doubt Montgomery or any of the other smaller papers go.
Alabama - See Auburn...
Kentucky - I would tend to doubt they'll be anyone from Louisville or Lexington there.
South Carolina - I seriously doubt The State or any of the locals make that trip.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Well, as poin would say, pics or GTFO.

However, I seem to recall someone posting similar type pics from a similar type event in the past (perhaps the same SEC tournament even?) that weren't thought of too fondly by the mods.

I won't be offended if you PM them to me, though. ;D

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Just guessing, but I would bet there will be better looking women in the stands at the SEC men's tournament.

 

[Bullrog]

I'm guessing the AJC and the Tennessean will not be there. :)

No chance in hell AJC covers it. They haven't even been staffing UGA home games and didn't staff the UGA game vs. Clemson at Gwinnett (suburban Atlanta).

The real question is whether they will staff the women's subregional in Gwinnett.

 

[mustangj17]

Who is coming the SEC women's tournament next week in Little Rock?
I'll be there and I was wanting to post amusing running threads on which interns are virgins and how many Diet Dr Peppers people could drink in one day.
You know, typical SEC running thread material.

Fixed.

 

[mustangj17]

Wait a second, Jay, one more post and you owe us an updated story!!!! I'll get the popcorn ready.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

How many papers travel with a women's college hoops team regularly (all or most) for non-NCAA tournament games? Knoxville used to. I'm guessing a few of the Connecticut papers do. I could see one of the NC papers doing it for either NC State or Duke. Anyone else.

 

[SEC Guy]

I'd guess that not counting Arkansas and Memphis papers, there might be five other (non-student) papers there.

 

[Blitz]

Mississippi State will hope to meet up with Tenn. somewhere in the bracket.
State's got a possible NCAA team this season.
Lady Bulldogs are 0-for-30, or somesuch, all-time against Lady Vols.

(See pdf of bracket here: http://secsports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=4&url_article_id=10139&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2)
The bracket is upside down, FWIW

 

[John]

How many papers travel with a women's college hoops team regularly (all or most) for non-NCAA tournament games? Knoxville used to. I'm guessing a few of the Connecticut papers do. I could see one of the NC papers doing it for either NC State or Duke. Anyone else.

Back when I covered the Lady Dogs for the Banner-Herald, which was 2003-05, I went to everything but the games on the West Coast.

The ABH doesn't do much on the road these days, for the men or women, but I'm pretty sure Weiszer is going to Little Rock.

 

[Flip Wilson]

SEC interns do tend to run hot.
I might learn how to post pictures just for the event.
Of course, I'm kinda wondering who will actually be here.
SEC says they've been flooded with requests, but a fair chunk of the major SEC player papers don't intend on covering it.

Since Arkansas isn't really driving distance from anywhere other than maybe the Mississippi schools, I really wonder how many of the hometown papers will cover this at all.

Georgia - Athens, Macon, Atlanta - Will be surprised if any cover it.
Tennessee - Knoxville, Chattanoogo, Nashville - Probably Knoxville
Florida - Gainesville, Orlando, Jville, Tampa, St. Pete - Almost certainly no one.
Arkansas - Obviously all the local papers will be there.
Ole Miss - I'm assuming Memphis will be there. Clarion Ledger? I don't know.
Mississippi State - Maybe someone from Memphis covers both Mississippi schools.
LSU - Baton Rouge? Maybe. Times Picayune? I doubt it.
Vandy - Not if the Tennessean isn't going.
Auburn - Maybe one person from the Birmingham paper goes to cover both Alabama schools. Same deal for Mobile. I doubt Montgomery or any of the other smaller papers go.
Alabama - See Auburn...
Kentucky - I would tend to doubt they'll be anyone from Louisville or Lexington there.
South Carolina - I seriously doubt The State or any of the locals make that trip.

Fixed

 

[HejiraHenry]

Tupelo won't be going to the women's tournament, but we rarely have.

We'll still send both beat writers to the men's tourney.

 

[Blitz]

Favoritism and sexism, rolled into one.

Oh wait, your readers don't really care about women's basketball (especially with Tan White gone to the pros).

I understand totally.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I've been informed Jay has an open tab at an Irish pub walking distance from Alltel Arena. Y'all should all take advantage of him it.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Favoritism and sexism, rolled into one.

Oh wait, your readers don't really care about women's basketball (especially with Tan White gone to the pros).

I understand totally.

Not sure if that's meant to bait me or what.

I think it goes without saying that the general population in this market doesn't care about the women's game in the same way they do about the men's. If they did, a "pack the gym" day for a women's game would pull more than 1,900.

It's reasonable to think the general readership of the newspaper might reflect that, too.

But I was taught, a long time ago in Nashville, to disregard all that and treat the women's game like all the rest of the news we cover.

In the time I have been here, since late 2001, I think we have done a decent job on the women's basketball beat.

This year, we've staffed the highlight home games – the Ole Miss-MSU home-and-home, Tennessee's visit to Starkville, Van Chancellor's first game back to Oxford – and have probably given the women's game its best Monday coverage since I got here. I've written some women's notebooks this season and our MSU beat writer did a nice takeout-length feature on the three players from the Congo.

We are at the high school state basketball tournament this week and next and that ain't free.

From Monday through Friday, all five of our centerpieces have been women's/girls basketball (Ole Miss on Monday, preps the four days since). These are decisions that I make everyday here, with no particular -isms in play.

 

[Philkaplan]

Knoxville has never stopped covering UT road games. Not sure where you get your informaton. We will have Dan Fleser and John Adams there. We will have three at SEC men (Griffith, Strange, Adams).