The University of Iowa boasts one of the best newspapers in the country. Yet even though it's staffed by her fellow students, no one has been granted a one-on-one interview with Caitlin Clark.
My son is the Associate AD at a D-II school in St. Paul. Here is response to the Caitlin Clark piece:
'This was pretty good. Unfortunately I think he misses the mark with coming down on the Iowa WBB SID. Clark is extremely handled, and he lets her off the hook for that. She is an absolute monster and a terrible person. The people around have crafted a persona and it's obviously working. A 1 on 1 would be horrible for her brand, and she knows it, and hides behind her handlers to enable it. It's more on her than anyone else, but their head coach is a media monster, too, and I believe Beth Goetz is as well. The dude doing SID work at Iowa has no power in this situation and probably hates his life and is just trying to keep above water with all the media requests coming his way. '
Musing #7! I love when people stick up for what’s right. Whether it’s sticking up for themselves, or for the truth. So glad those two spoke up and spoke out. Especially Ms. Crockett; what a role-model moment for young girls, of any race.
Would be super curious how Iowa SIDs and others are treating all print media, especially other locals and regionals.
Not surprised by the “access” deal that the Daily Iowan would have made. Lots of the independent college papers really want/need the revenue bounce that comes with their teams making a hoops run to the Final Four or winning it all. That photo book and those front pages will sell.
Used to hear about this bump all the time in independent college media circles. The Daily Kansan and the Kentucky Kernel basically planned for it. The former must be relieved this weekend so far, and the latter has a hole in their budget.
The College Media Advisors conference (if it’s still a thing) needs you as a keynote speaker ASAP.
A certain longtime Syracuse men's basketball coach would not do a 1-on-1 interview with our school newspaper when I was there in the late 80s. He never told us why. We never had a problem with any other coach or athlete in any other sport.
Great Post!! Schools should make sure the student journalists have as much access as any national publication - if not more. If a school said to an athlete that part of his/her media responsibilities is to talk to student media, I am sure 99.99999% of the athletes would not think twice about granting an interview.
My son is the Associate AD at a D-II school in St. Paul. Here is response to the Caitlin Clark piece:
'This was pretty good. Unfortunately I think he misses the mark with coming down on the Iowa WBB SID. Clark is extremely handled, and he lets her off the hook for that. She is an absolute monster and a terrible person. The people around have crafted a persona and it's obviously working. A 1 on 1 would be horrible for her brand, and she knows it, and hides behind her handlers to enable it. It's more on her than anyone else, but their head coach is a media monster, too, and I believe Beth Goetz is as well. The dude doing SID work at Iowa has no power in this situation and probably hates his life and is just trying to keep above water with all the media requests coming his way. '
Musing #7! I love when people stick up for what’s right. Whether it’s sticking up for themselves, or for the truth. So glad those two spoke up and spoke out. Especially Ms. Crockett; what a role-model moment for young girls, of any race.
Would be super curious how Iowa SIDs and others are treating all print media, especially other locals and regionals.
Not surprised by the “access” deal that the Daily Iowan would have made. Lots of the independent college papers really want/need the revenue bounce that comes with their teams making a hoops run to the Final Four or winning it all. That photo book and those front pages will sell.
Used to hear about this bump all the time in independent college media circles. The Daily Kansan and the Kentucky Kernel basically planned for it. The former must be relieved this weekend so far, and the latter has a hole in their budget.
The College Media Advisors conference (if it’s still a thing) needs you as a keynote speaker ASAP.
A certain longtime Syracuse men's basketball coach would not do a 1-on-1 interview with our school newspaper when I was there in the late 80s. He never told us why. We never had a problem with any other coach or athlete in any other sport.
Great Post!! Schools should make sure the student journalists have as much access as any national publication - if not more. If a school said to an athlete that part of his/her media responsibilities is to talk to student media, I am sure 99.99999% of the athletes would not think twice about granting an interview.