Zip for Akron's Zips coverage

[dooley_womack1]

The hometown newspaper of a FBS team has to staff every one of its games, whether in Kalamazoo, or on Pluto so to speak. That is all.

 

[Idaho]

The hometown newspaper of a FBS team has to staff every one of its games, whether in Kalamazoo, or on Pluto so to speak. That is all.

Not talking specifically of Akron. But what about those schools playing at Hawaii? Should the Ruston, La., or Monroe paper staff a LaTech at Hawaii game even though it will end two hours after deadline? Last week, Utah State played at Hawaii. Normally, three papers staff USU games even though it is the bottom of the barrel in I-A football. Only the 12k circ paper sent a reporter to Honolulu. The SLC papers covered it via television and a followup.

But I will agree. If the ABJ's policy is to not cover the hometown school's away games they are making a mistake. But is that mistake costing them any subscribers?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Ruston could buy a stringer if it doesn't want to send its beat person. And it's not a matter of whether it draws readers. A great read or a great expose doesn't automatically lead to more readers, either. It's a matter of doing what a paper should do.

 

[Idaho]

Not taking the position that no presence in the pressbox is needed, mind you. Just exploring that train of thought.

But, unfortunately, EVERYTHING is a matter of readership to a degree. If it doesn't sell papers ...

 

[dooley_womack1]

A newspaper does its best job, and if the marketing and advertising departments do their best job, it'll work out.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The ABJ is thinking smarter by not covering the Zips on the road!

 

[mitch cumstein]

I was the Western Michigan beat writer a few years back and strung the game story for ABJ the last time the Zips came to Waldo. I think they coughed up $100 for it. Hard to believe they wouldn't make the effort to find stringer for this one, especially because Akron has a decent program now.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I bet the Dacron Republican-Democrat would have covered it!

 

[BillyT]

288 miles separates Kalamazoo from Akron. So you're talking two tanks of gas and a night in the K-Zoo Holiday Inn, maybe with a trip to Outback thrown in for good measure. Seems like a managable affair. But what's done is done.

If you have the body.

I agree they should have covered it, but I forgot they staff the Indians and Browns.

 

[Some Guy]

288 miles separates Kalamazoo from Akron. So you're talking two tanks of gas and a night in the K-Zoo Holiday Inn, maybe with a trip to Outback thrown in for good measure. Seems like a managable affair. But what's done is done.

I heard the beat writer demanded to stay in a Marriott, and that put the cost of the trip over the top.

If I knew how to blue note, I'd use it here.

 

[steveu]

That'd be some trick in Kzoo, because there's no Marriott there.

And yes, I know you were trying to blue note.

 

[Shaggy]

The hometown newspaper of a FBS team has to staff every one of its games, whether in Kalamazoo, or on Pluto so to speak. That is all.

Somehow, I doubt the Miami Herald is sending two writers all over the country for Florida Atlantic and Florida International games. But what do i know.