Cornell Sun???

[rss77]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

[scoop85]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

Has to be due to an inability to find enough students interested in covering the teams. I covered men's basketball for the Sun for 3 years and wrote game articles for every game, along with numerous features. Today only men's hockey, via Jane McNally, receives equivalent coverage.

[upprdeck]

You would like to think the ease of watching games would help find someone to report though

Years ago you had no way other than going to a game to see and write a story

[upprdeck]

and speaking of the Sun.  The NCAA NIL/Scholie limits thing would be a good story to help explain how it will cause issues going forward for all the Cornell teams.

[Weder]

Yes, my understanding is that they have struggled for quite a few years now to find enough students who want to be sports reporters. I don't know the specifics beyond that, thought.

[chimpfood]

It also takes so much time to cover a sport closely. You're talking about taking half the Friday/Saturday nights of the school year and spending them working. You can't go to games with friends, go out, it's hard to get people to sign up to do all that.

[upprdeck]

It also takes so much time to cover a sport closely. You're talking about taking half the Friday/Saturday nights of the school year and spending them working. You can't go to games with friends, go out, it's hard to get people to sign up to do all that.

So how do we end up with 5-6 EMts at ever hockey game?  They seem to be willing to give up time?  We have hundreds of kids at hockey games, none of them can write?

Sure it takes effort. Kinda like a job does.

[chimpfood]

It also takes so much time to cover a sport closely. You're talking about taking half the Friday/Saturday nights of the school year and spending them working. You can't go to games with friends, go out, it's hard to get people to sign up to do all that.

So how do we end up with 5-6 EMts at ever hockey game?  They seem to be willing to give up time?  We have hundreds of kids at hockey games, none of them can write?

Sure it takes effort. Kinda like a job does.

Hockey isn't the issue, it's the most popular sport here but the sports editor gets that beat, I could find 100 people at this school that would do the hockey beat if it was available, myself included. Clearly there isn't interest in people doing putting in that kind of work for other sports and you can't force them to do it. At some point you have to shrug your shoulders and wait for someone with more passion to bring back the type of coverage you want in future years.

[mike1960]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

Has to be due to an inability to find enough students interested in covering the teams. I covered men's basketball for the Sun for 3 years and wrote game articles for every game, along with numerous features. Today only men's hockey, via Jane McNally, receives equivalent coverage.

If I may ask, did you go into journalism after school or did you go in another direction?

[Weder]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

Has to be due to an inability to find enough students interested in covering the teams. I covered men's basketball for the Sun for 3 years and wrote game articles for every game, along with numerous features. Today only men's hockey, via Jane McNally, receives equivalent coverage.

In my day, we tried to make sure to write previews and recaps of every game for every varsity team, along with features when we could. We also covered road games for football, men's basketball and men's hockey -- and sometimes other teams if schedules aligned. I once covered a volleyball match at Dartmouth on the Friday  night before the football game in Hanover. In those days, the Sun could pay for all that, but it's been a long time since they had that kind of money coming in.

[upprdeck]

And now all these games can be watched and covered from your own room. You dont have to sit through 3 hrs to watch a fb game. you can wind through the whole game in 30-40 min.

[BearLover]

Nowadays anybody can watch the games anywhere for cheap, and the highlights are posted within an hour of the game ending. What I'd like to see is not summaries of the games, which are pretty unnecessary at this point, but rather inside scoops you can't get from watching on ESPN+: interviews with players and coaches. And you don't need to send a reporter to the game for that, you can just schedule a 10-minute zoom with Coach Jacques and a player or two before and/or after each game.

[chimpfood]

Agreed there. Very disappointing that the basketball recaps don't even have quotes.

[upprdeck]

is there an assumption that players and coaches want to be quoted?

[scoop85]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

Has to be due to an inability to find enough students interested in covering the teams. I covered men's basketball for the Sun for 3 years and wrote game articles for every game, along with numerous features. Today only men's hockey, via Jane McNally, receives equivalent coverage.

If I may ask, did you go into journalism after school or did you go in another direction?

I was on the fence, but by junior year I decided to go to law school.