MVC Games Week 11 2024-25

[bleach]

What made SIU’s win impressive is Missouri St had a White Out. It’s not often you see a league bottom-feeder escape a Sea of White in a raucous road environment with a blowout W.

It was hardly a sea of white and raucous is really a stretch. The only thing White out about last night was Dez White being out. This years team is a parting gift to the MVC basketball schools. Held our own Non-con and total egg laying in conference......THATS how it's done.

[FunchessonPopcorn]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was reading through various team message boards, finally landed on the BU board and, to my surprise, there was a post complaining about...the in-house coverage.

Apparently BU doesn't really have a sports information department any more.

So I went to the school's website and as of 11:20 a.m. EST the day after (roughly 13.5 hours later) the Braves smashed Indiana State, there is no game story on Bradley's website.

There is a box score, but that's it.

I do understand that there has been a shift in communication focus across many campuses, but that's embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as the former SID asking the newspaper to be a cheerleader for BU instead of a journalist and blocking his access, but BU should be ashamed of itself for not being able to do the simplest of tasks.

You don't need a novel, just a few paragraphs. Tell us the result, who scored the most, a few fun facts and tell us who they play next and how to watch/listen. Simple.

You’re hitting a sore subject. A small private school with a sports communication major can’t be bothered to do the bare minimum to cover their signature sport. What you observe isn’t new. It’s the standard.

If you ever listen to a radio broadcast recently, that is also a rough ride, but at least that is a delicate matter in that it involves a local icon in part.

[BCPanther]

I honestly think non-football schools are going to have that problem with sports comms and radio guys.

People in that profession want to be where they're going to get the most coverage/biggest audience. That's real hard to do if you don't have a football background.

FCS football sucks but it's definitely a foot in the door for younger people in those roles.

[bradley_townie]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was reading through various team message boards, finally landed on the BU board and, to my surprise, there was a post complaining about...the in-house coverage.

Apparently BU doesn't really have a sports information department any more.

So I went to the school's website and as of 11:20 a.m. EST the day after (roughly 13.5 hours later) the Braves smashed Indiana State, there is no game story on Bradley's website.

There is a box score, but that's it.

I do understand that there has been a shift in communication focus across many campuses, but that's embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as the former SID asking the newspaper to be a cheerleader for BU instead of a journalist and blocking his access, but BU should be ashamed of itself for not being able to do the simplest of tasks.

You don't need a novel, just a few paragraphs. Tell us the result, who scored the most, a few fun facts and tell us who they play next and how to watch/listen. Simple.

There is a stark difference between Bradley's website and their social media presence. They are super active on Twitter, so someone at the school should be able to spend a few minutes posting a photo and a few sentences about the game. I'll be honest though, if I am looking for the latest information about a game, a school's website is about 15th on the list of places I'd think to check.

Side note, this Bradley board is the better of the two IMO. Seems more trafficked and there are fewer clowns:
https://bradleybraves.boards.net/board/3/bradley-mens-basketball

[DUBulldog]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was reading through various team message boards, finally landed on the BU board and, to my surprise, there was a post complaining about...the in-house coverage.

Apparently BU doesn't really have a sports information department any more.

So I went to the school's website and as of 11:20 a.m. EST the day after (roughly 13.5 hours later) the Braves smashed Indiana State, there is no game story on Bradley's website.

There is a box score, but that's it.

I do understand that there has been a shift in communication focus across many campuses, but that's embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as the former SID asking the newspaper to be a cheerleader for BU instead of a journalist and blocking his access, but BU should be ashamed of itself for not being able to do the simplest of tasks.

You don't need a novel, just a few paragraphs. Tell us the result, who scored the most, a few fun facts and tell us who they play next and how to watch/listen. Simple.

There is a stark difference between Bradley's website and their social media presence. They are super active on Twitter, so someone at the school should be able to spend a few minutes posting a photo and a few sentences about the game. I'll be honest though, if I am looking for the latest information about a game, a school's website is about 15th on the list of places I'd think to check.

Side note, this Bradley board is the better of the two IMO. Seems more trafficked and there are fewer clowns:
https://bradleybraves.boards.net/board/3/bradley-mens-basketball

Which board is tornado on?

[MissouriValleyUnite]

There was trouble in paradise between tornado and Da Coach so Bradleyfans.com has gotten a lot less windy.

tornado still keeps up his blog, so if you need updates on the latest speeding tickets from ISU players in the McLean County Court database, that's your go-to source.

[Majik45]

Which board is tornado on?

Tornado is on bradleyfans.com

Most of the people from the old Peoria Journal Star board moved over here:
https://bradleybraves.boards.net/

[TylerDurden]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was reading through various team message boards, finally landed on the BU board and, to my surprise, there was a post complaining about...the in-house coverage.

Apparently BU doesn't really have a sports information department any more.

So I went to the school's website and as of 11:20 a.m. EST the day after (roughly 13.5 hours later) the Braves smashed Indiana State, there is no game story on Bradley's website.

There is a box score, but that's it.

I do understand that there has been a shift in communication focus across many campuses, but that's embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as the former SID asking the newspaper to be a cheerleader for BU instead of a journalist and blocking his access, but BU should be ashamed of itself for not being able to do the simplest of tasks.

You don't need a novel, just a few paragraphs. Tell us the result, who scored the most, a few fun facts and tell us who they play next and how to watch/listen. Simple.

There is a stark difference between Bradley's website and their social media presence. They are super active on Twitter, so someone at the school should be able to spend a few minutes posting a photo and a few sentences about the game. I'll be honest though, if I am looking for the latest information about a game, a school's website is about 15th on the list of places I'd think to check.

Side note, this Bradley board is the better of the two IMO. Seems more trafficked and there are fewer clowns:
https://bradleybraves.boards.net/board/3/bradley-mens-basketball

BU certainly isn't alone in the shift toward social platforms and they do have some nice looking content, but that doesn't really excuse the lack of a game recap more than half-a-day later. It can be a copy-and-paste of an AP story. It's lazy coverage for one of the league's marquee programs.

They used to have some in-depth (perhaps even overly so) game notes and stories, now they're the worst in the league.

I'm sure we seek out information in a different way, but if I want to know when Team X is playing a game and how to watch/listen, the first place I go is their website. Most of the information is in before the season starts (or should be).

Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy, but this is the kind of stuff that makes me and many people think twice before donating to a school.

Edit: I just looked and apparently Bradley's MBB SID also runs their Valley on ESPN productions, so they're asking him to do two full-time jobs at the same time - all with no real experience in communications, according to his online bio. He's set up to fail.

[bradley_townie]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was reading through various team message boards, finally landed on the BU board and, to my surprise, there was a post complaining about...the in-house coverage.

Apparently BU doesn't really have a sports information department any more.

So I went to the school's website and as of 11:20 a.m. EST the day after (roughly 13.5 hours later) the Braves smashed Indiana State, there is no game story on Bradley's website.

There is a box score, but that's it.

I do understand that there has been a shift in communication focus across many campuses, but that's embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as the former SID asking the newspaper to be a cheerleader for BU instead of a journalist and blocking his access, but BU should be ashamed of itself for not being able to do the simplest of tasks.

You don't need a novel, just a few paragraphs. Tell us the result, who scored the most, a few fun facts and tell us who they play next and how to watch/listen. Simple.

There is a stark difference between Bradley's website and their social media presence. They are super active on Twitter, so someone at the school should be able to spend a few minutes posting a photo and a few sentences about the game. I'll be honest though, if I am looking for the latest information about a game, a school's website is about 15th on the list of places I'd think to check.

Side note, this Bradley board is the better of the two IMO. Seems more trafficked and there are fewer clowns:
https://bradleybraves.boards.net/board/3/bradley-mens-basketball

BU certainly isn't alone in the shift toward social platforms and they do have some nice looking content, but that doesn't really excuse the lack of a game recap more than half-a-day later. It can be a copy-and-paste of an AP story. It's lazy coverage for one of the league's marquee programs.

They used to have some in-depth (perhaps even overly so) game notes and stories, now they're the worst in the league.

I'm sure we seek out information in a different way, but if I want to know when Team X is playing a game and how to watch/listen, the first place I go is their website. Most of the information is in before the season starts (or should be).

Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy, but this is the kind of stuff that makes me and many people think twice before donating to a school.

Edit: I just looked and apparently Bradley's MBB SID also runs their Valley on ESPN productions, so they're asking him to do two full-time jobs at the same time - all with no real experience in communications, according to his online bio. He's set up to fail.

It's a bad look. Bradley even has the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communication. They wouldn't even have to pay for the labor. There has to be a college kid looking for some real-world experience to put on their resume in an insanely competitive field that could be tasked with keeping the website current.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Belmont having all kinds of trouble in Evansville. Belmont board getting worried.