FB: Southern Athletic Association

[Bombers798891]

Agreed. Let the people who care come to you and, if you have to, try and dream up ways to get more people to care. Trying to force the information on people, i.e. the local newspaper, is a dying method. People are increasingly caring about smaller and smaller things, and newspapers just aren't capable of profitably covering a significant number of them, let alone all of them.

Right. Newspapers cover high schools because there's no other way for many of high school sports to get this info, so you're providing a service. For a college to send out a news story to a paper when that story already exists online alongside better content, it's just silly.

One of the things an SID told me once is that working in that office is like being an iceberg. You might see, for example, the news story they wrote about three athletes being named to the all-conference team of the week, and think "That took them X minutes to write". But you don't see the time they spent gathering up all the stats/info and nominating those players (not to mention those who weren't picked)

[Pat Coleman]

Newspapers also cover high schools because everyone in the high school is from the local area and people will purchase a copy of the newspaper. That isn't the same with colleges -- newspapers don't see coverage of small colleges as a viable way to sell on the newsstand because the student-athletes come from all over. (And, by the way, they're probably right in most markets. When you see papers that cover small colleges extensively, that's because they know people will buy.)

[Scots13]

Case in point, Blount County (TN)'s The Daily Times:  Maryville College gets a good amount of coverage in all sports. More than what could be asked for.  Naturally, high school sports get waaaaay more attention.  Blount County has a population of 127,253 in addition to the city of Maryville's 28,372 and the city of Alcoa's 9,874. Within Blount County (including Maryville and Alcoa) there are 4 high schools. The two county schools are Heritage and William Blount high schools. Both are 6A, highest classification in TN. The 2 city schools are Maryville High (6A) and Alcoa High (3A).

With that being said, the Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville is just over the river in Knox County) might have a blurb or two every once in a while about other metro area colleges (MC, Carson-Newman, Tusculum, TN Wesleyan, Johnson, Hiwassee, LMU) . Obviously Butch Jones & Co. get more press, which nowadays is well warranted.

Bottom line: TDT needs to cover MC. Makes no difference to KNS because the have the Big Orange Beast.

For reference, Knox County has a population of 451,324 and the city of Knoxville has 185,196.

[awadelewis]

Apologies about not getting back to the forum about game-day parking at Sewanee until now.  Week's been busy. As @jknezek mentioned, primary parking is in the field by the baseball stadium and FB practice fields.   Do be aware that it's Parent's Weekend on the Mountain which will impact both the parking situation and restaurant availability.   

A popular option is parking along the Quad on University Ave. and in the lot behind Fulford Hall (our Admissions Office) and then walking over to the field.  That's about a 10 minute walk.

[Bombers798891]

Case in point, Blount County (TN)'s The Daily Times:  Maryville College gets a good amount of coverage in all sports. More than what could be asked for.  Naturally, high school sports get waaaaay more attention.  Blount County has a population of 127,253 in addition to the city of Maryville's 28,372 and the city of Alcoa's 9,874. Within Blount County (including Maryville and Alcoa) there are 4 high schools. The two county schools are Heritage and William Blount high schools. Both are 6A, highest classification in TN. The 2 city schools are Maryville High (6A) and Alcoa High (3A).

That's another thing to remember.

Look at this roundup: http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/sports/2017/10/03/section-4-scores-tuesdays-live-results/729852001/

Dozens and dozens of high schools. That's hundreds of teams, and thousands of student-athletes whose names could be in the paper any given day. Even if the colleges wasn't, as Pat said, populated with kids whose families aren't from that area, they'd be outnumbered.

[Clark Kent]

Rome News-Tribune, October 4, 2017.  Great job Berry!
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/sports/colleges/college-football-vikings-having-breakout-season-at-halfway-point/article_6a6d0e94-a8b2-11e7-8b15-9be28a43daf9.html

[Clark Kent]

SAA games are now available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV

http://www.saa-sports.com/general/2017-18/releases/20170929kp5z6g

[BerryCollegeFan]

Apologies about not getting back to the forum about game-day parking at Sewanee until now.  Week's been busy. As @jknezek mentioned, primary parking is in the field by the baseball stadium and FB practice fields.   Do be aware that it's Parent's Weekend on the Mountain which will impact both the parking situation and restaurant availability.   

A popular option is parking along the Quad on University Ave. and in the lot behind Fulford Hall (our Admissions Office) and then walking over to the field.  That's about a 10 minute walk.

thanks for the info!

[BerryCollegeFan]

SAA games are now available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV

http://www.saa-sports.com/general/2017-18/releases/20170929kp5z6g

we looked at the app last weekend but the Austin/Berry games wasn't listed...

[albatross]

first quarter isn't over yet in Conway and it's already 21-3 Warriors. We will see if Hendrix can actually play a complete game for all four...

[Ron Boerger]

SAA games are now available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV

http://www.saa-sports.com/general/2017-18/releases/20170929kp5z6g

Pretty cool if you have one of those devices, which I don't.   However, I can cast from my laptop to my LG TV (which I didn't know about until today) so that's how I'll be watching from now on. 

[albatross]

Dayton Winn shakes off a broken nose to lead the Copenhagen Towers to victory in the Mermaid Bowl. Now the second Hendrix player to win a national league championship abroad in 2017...

[Ron Boerger]

Unfortunate final 2:00 of the first half for Trinity who fumble a kickoff after Rhodes took their first lead of the game, and PJ Settles makes the Tigers pay with a 23-yard completion for a second score in 20 seconds to stake the Lynx to a 20-7 halftime lead.  Settles' running/scrambling has caused the Tigers all kinds of trouble so far. 

[Ron Boerger]

Another wild and crazy game in San Antonio.   Trinity gets a FG on their first possession, holds Rhodes for the second time, Lynx try a fake from their own 30 and get stuffed, Tigers score 3 plays later so it's 20-17.   Rhodes 3-and-out, Trinity faces a 4th and 15 from midfield, their fake works much better, resulting in a 48-yard pass from punter Rhodes Legg to Tommy Lavine, Trinity leads 24-20.  Rhodes wakes up in the fourth quarter, score twice to lead 34-24.    Trinity then returns a kick 91 yards to make it 34-31, but are called for unsportsmanlike conduct and kick from their 20.   Rhodes drives it down to the Trinity 14, facing fourth and four with less than two minutes elect to go for it and are stopped one yard short.   Trinity has only 1:16 left and no timeouts but dink their way down field, converting two fourth downs, and Colby Doyal just squeaks a 47-yard attempt over the crossbar as time expires to send it to OT for the second time in three weeks.

In OT, Rhodes can't get a first down and a 35-yard FGA sails wide right (I think); Trinity scores on a pass from Grauer to Lavine, the third for both.

They may not be top-25 material, but the Tigers don't give up. 

[Ralph Turner]

This Trinity team reminds me of the mental tenacity of the teams of the early 2000's.

They don't have quite the talent of those teams (yet), but they show they have what it takes to win a close one.