Coach Les on WEEK....

[Chucky T's]

JL, along with video of some of the guys on the news last night...

http://week.com/Sports/Default.aspx

click on video....

[Da Coach]

Thanks for finding that link. I saw Lee Hall's report on WEEK last night. Good job, but I wish he would have focused even more on the players, especially the new guys.

[ph]

Thanks for finding that link. I saw Lee Hal's report on WEEK last night. Good job, but I wish he would have focused even more on the players, especially the new guys.

It's like Apple iPhone marketing! Just release little snippets of information over a period of time so there will be a huge buzz with people camping out infront of the doors by the time regular season begins!

Actually, I think WEEK has produced similiar little stories in past years. By the time the regular season begins, they'll probably have produced small profiles of all the players. It serves them well to get as many potential viewers for the games that they broadcast. Although as a more devout BU fan, I keep getting excited when I occasionally find my Tivo recorded another Jim Les show on Sunday AM (only to find it was a mislabled infomercial)

[tornado]

If anyone else saw that video clip, one thing Jim Les said was that
he was so pleased that there were people talking about Bradley
basketball in June. This is exactly what we were talking about
right here a couple weeks ago. There's always talk about Bradley
basketball on BradleyFans.com, but how come we are NOT getting
any coverage whatsoever in our local newspaper? There was some
coverage in the Springfield paper, there is coverage on TV like the
clip with Lee Hall, and of course there is always going to be some
scarce coverage on a few of the premium recruiting sites that so
few people have access. So why not devote just a few of the
resources that the PJ Star can muster up and give us some weekly
coverage in the hometown newspaper? We've shown that lots of
other cities have coverage in their local newspapers.

I can prove that the Salukis have gotten several times a week
coverage of some basketball topic since the season ended, and
Saint Louis Univ. gets coverage almost every day from their
hometown paper.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/slu

http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/category/sports-billiken-beat

Is it asking too much? Can they find a little space in between the articles
on the Chiefs, the Mustangs, the full pages of Nascar and golf coverage,
and the otherwise excellent high school coverage that are in the PJS.
I think we need a little competition to make them give us what the community deserves.

[Lakeview Brave]

If anyone else saw that video clip, one thing Jim Les said was that
he was so pleased that there were people talking about Bradley
basketball in June. This is exactly what we were talking about
right here a couple weeks ago. There's always talk about Bradley
basketball on BradleyFans.com, but how come we are NOT getting
any coverage whatsoever in our local newspaper? There was some
coverage in the Springfield paper, there is coverage on TV like the
clip with Lee Hall, and of course there is always going to be some
scarce coverage on a few of the premium recruiting sites that so
few people have access. So why not devote just a few of the
resources that the PJ Star can muster up and give us some weekly
coverage in the hometown newspaper? We've shown that lots of
other cities have coverage in their local newspapers.

I can prove that the Salukis have gotten several times a week
coverage of some basketball topic since the season ended, and
Saint Louis Univ. gets coverage almost every day from their
hometown paper.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/slu

http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/category/sports-billiken-beat

Is it asking too much? Can they find a little space in between the articles
on the Chiefs, the Mustangs, the full pages of Nascar and golf coverage,
and the otherwise excellent high school coverage that are in the PJS.
I think we need a little competition to make them give us what the community deserves.

Have you ever emailed the sports department at the PJ Star and asked them these questions? Im sure Kirk Wessler would give you an answer.

[tornado]

LB- I have and was told in no uncertain terms that the professional and knowledgable staff of our local newspaper is fully capable of deciding the proper degree of coverage for each endeavor.

I even specifically asked for coverage and/or just a listing on the box score page of the winners of one local event/high school sport and was told that even though the editors knew the results and the answers I was asking for, they were going to wait and do it at later time when they saw fit.
Turns out it did indeed show up 2 weeks later without coverage or comment only as a tiny entry on the box score page.

So I gave up on the idea of suggesting things personally or privately, and now I am doing it publicly...posting it here.
I know certain people at the PJS read this board.

[Lakeview Brave]

It is amazing what you and DA Coach do! I can only conclude that neither one of you requires more then 4 hours of sleep a night I would say that the variety of sources from so many different people on this board far out number the sources that the news paper has. Thats why almost 100% of Bradley news comes here first and the paper second.

[MacabreMob]

I think BradleyFans.com should take out a FULL PAGE ad in the Sports Extra Section titled 'Hoops' (I think) when the PJStar does their fall overview of all hoops.

[tornado]

We thank the fans of BU for the success that BradleyFans has been.
BradleyFans runs, believe it or not, on a shoestring budget.
The cost of such an ad is easily 1000 times what we wanna spend.
Hopefully the clientele of BradleyFans will continue to grow by word of mouth.

We have almost 1000 registered posters, but the number of people/computers that look in without registering is enormous.
As Da Coach noted we have been hitting 3,000,000 page hits per month during these "slow" summer months.