Ch. 10 Sports

[BigShoop]

I don't believe the game not being televised had anything to do with the lack of coverage.  This is not the first time a RMC upset over a TOP25 team did not awaken the media establishment.  Except for the beat writers, they're just like the guy that graduated in '95 and still hasn't been to a football game yet - still waiting on it to be THE THING to do.  Really, if you believe that the stations don't have cameras there (or can't have cameras there) or that USF can not provide highlight tape, you're mistaken.  It's a matter of wanting to report it; wamting to report what they believe the community wants.

IMHO, it's a much larger problem than having the game itself televised.

Part of the problem, this time, may have been the timimg of the game .... SB weekend. Any other weekend, with the nice advance sales for the game due to the Irish "name", there probably would have been more coverage, tv and print.

Still unacceptable. Did the timing ruin the Gator coverage on the same night?

[Brad]

There is no excuse for lack of coverage and that is why the stampede of the media must occur and frequently.  We've been through this with the print media where the beat writers do some nice work, yet it gets tucked in a corner or on page 7.

Face it, the community does not embrace USF as it should and we need to do whatever we can to change that.

[Triple B]

I don't believe the game not being televised had anything to do with the lack of coverage.  This is not the first time a RMC upset over a TOP25 team did not awaken the media establishment.  Except for the beat writers, they're just like the guy that graduated in '95 and still hasn't been to a football game yet - still waiting on it to be THE THING to do.  Really, if you believe that the stations don't have cameras there (or can't have cameras there) or that USF can not provide highlight tape, you're mistaken.  It's a matter of wanting to report it; wamting to report what they believe the community wants.

IMHO, it's a much larger problem than having the game itself televised.

Part of the problem, this time, may have been the timimg of the game .... SB weekend. Any other weekend, with the nice advance sales for the game due to the Irish "name", there probably would have been more coverage, tv and print.

Still unacceptable. Did the timing ruin the Gator coverage on the same night?

No, but did the local media have film crews and reporters up there? Some geek sitting at a console could pull down the highlights from satellite feeds of that game. I think there would have, at least, been more of the print columnists at our game had they not been in Miami writing sleep inducing stories about SB XLI