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RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - FAU Connoisseur! - 07-21-2021 01:21 PM
(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
That's only because ODU quit on us.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-21-2021 01:48 PM
(07-21-2021 12:43 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote: How do we watch ? I haven't a clue
ESPN+ and it looks like crap... and, that is not ESPN's fault.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-21-2021 01:49 PM
(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
I like Healy. I liked his interview. I expect good things from him at Charlotte.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - HogDawg - 07-21-2021 02:08 PM
(07-21-2021 01:21 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
That's only because ODU quit on us.
No, that's not the reason. The 13 CUSA schools that did play football in 2020 still had many more cancellations than any other FBS conference. Whatever our teams were doing for COVID awareness and prevention wasn't working.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-21-2021 02:11 PM
Personal observations of the first "Zoom Day"....
The Bad
Someone should have got with Tulin about his suit. If you are going to have a black "dungeon" background you can't wear a dark suit. Tulin looked like a floating head. Also, the black clothe covering the wires hanging from the back of their Samsung TV looked very bush league. It is sad when I watch this event on a bigger and better TV than the one C-USA uses as their background.
Too many programs had no backgrounds behind their coaches and players. They looked like the Taliban videos seen on cable news that were shot off in caves from the middle east.
The lighting was terrible in almost ever setting, especially Tulin's at C-USA. Who hard is it to get some extra lighting in the room and spruce up the production. Most amateur Youtubers can do this with no budget.
Q&A from the media? Just Tulin asking questions. Not really a media day if the media isn't thee to answer questions.
The Good
Most of the players and coaches were very good interviews. In my opinion, Charlotte's personnel did a fantastic job of handling the content of their interviews.
The overall graphics were much better than what we have seen in the past, and much better than I expected.
The western programs have about 24 hours to muster up some better production equipment and effects (lighting, backgrounds, props, ...). I pray Littrell doesn't do his interview from behind his cheap particle board IKEA desk.
The western programs have about 24 hours to arrange some of their local media to be present and ask questions. Don't know if C-USA would include that portion in the stream, but it would look good to have actual media at a "media day" event.
The Worst and Most Obvious Fact
In 2013 when our current configuration first got together, C-USA had a weekly spotlight show on the Fox regional networks. Now we are reduced to a Zoom media day's event being streamed online. Wow, that is a sad indictment of our leadership. Judy has to go. After that, we need to look at the rest of the conference office and start asking our AD's some questions that might make them uncomfortable. C-USA has to be better than what we are now.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-21-2021 02:19 PM
(07-21-2021 02:08 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:21 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
That's only because ODU quit on us.
No, that's not the reason. The 13 CUSA schools that did play football in 2020 still had many more cancellations than any other FBS conference. Whatever our teams were doing for COVID awareness and prevention wasn't working.
Could some of our programs have been using the COVID protocols to evade playing certain teams down the stretch? Not saying it happened, but with division titles on the line, I could see where programs might attempt to manipulate the situation to win their division.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - HogDawg - 07-21-2021 02:22 PM
(07-21-2021 02:19 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote:(07-21-2021 02:08 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:21 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
That's only because ODU quit on us.
No, that's not the reason. The 13 CUSA schools that did play football in 2020 still had many more cancellations than any other FBS conference. Whatever our teams were doing for COVID awareness and prevention wasn't working.
Could some of our programs have been using the COVID protocols to evade playing certain teams down the stretch? Not saying it happened, but with division titles on the line, I could see where programs might attempt to manipulate the situation to win their division.
Of course. I think it certainly happened that way. That's what I posted last fall. I called it "strategic cancellations".
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-21-2021 02:27 PM
(07-21-2021 02:22 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-21-2021 02:19 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote:(07-21-2021 02:08 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:21 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:(07-21-2021 01:10 PM)49ShadesOfGreen Wrote: Coach Healy definitely expressed his frustration from the event not being in person. I don't know the inner workings of the conference but it would not surprise me if there are more issues rumbling beneath the surface. Didn't CUSA have the most games cancelled as a whole among all the FBS conferences?
That's only because ODU quit on us.
No, that's not the reason. The 13 CUSA schools that did play football in 2020 still had many more cancellations than any other FBS conference. Whatever our teams were doing for COVID awareness and prevention wasn't working.
Could some of our programs have been using the COVID protocols to evade playing certain teams down the stretch? Not saying it happened, but with division titles on the line, I could see where programs might attempt to manipulate the situation to win their division.
Of course. I think it certainly happened that way. That's what I posted last fall. I called it "strategic cancellations".
While I also think it happened, I have no evidence other than to look at which teams cancelled their games and what those teams had to gain by not playing. Even then, that doesn't prove they were ducking games. Maybe someday a player or coach will surface and admit to it.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Ourland - 07-21-2021 02:47 PM
(07-20-2021 10:45 PM)WKUYG Wrote:(07-20-2021 10:35 PM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote: Ourland, who are u a fan of? Just curious. I’m not trying to start a pissing match, but their schedule could be much much weaker.
He says he's a rice fan or at least I think so. Rice plays a OOC schedule no team in CUSA should play. They have about 1 in 500,000 of coming out of OOC play with anything over 1 win in most years.
G5 OOC should be
1 vs a upper level P5 that will get you lots of ink if you pull the upset
1. middle to lower P5 that you have a chance to beat
1 top tier AAC or MWC
1 vs MAC for Western because its regional
When you have the chance you take the Army/Navy (before they moved to AAC) game. Its a great game for fans and a great trip for home fanes
Rice typically plays two power conference opponents every year for a multitude of reasons, the most important being that those games provide the program with much needed national visibility and considerable income, significant for us as members of a bad conference that can't provide either. Those games are also rivalries that Rice had in the Southwest Conference days that the university and it's fans want to sustain. Playing LSU, Texas, Arkansas, Baylor, and UH interest us. Finally, playing two power conference opponents every year is good for recruiting. It shows that Rice plays several of the same big time programs as the private schools in the Big12 and SEC. It helps us stay competitive for the best talent. Playing tough nonconference opponents reaps benefits that go far beyond wins and losses.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - ghostofclt! - 07-22-2021 07:08 AM
(07-21-2021 02:11 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: Personal observations of the first "Zoom Day"....
The Bad
Someone should have got with Tulin about his suit. If you are going to have a black "dungeon" background you can't wear a dark suit. Tulin looked like a floating head. Also, the black clothe covering the wires hanging from the back of their Samsung TV looked very bush league. It is sad when I watch this event on a bigger and better TV than the one C-USA uses as their background.
Too many programs had no backgrounds behind their coaches and players. They looked like the Taliban videos seen on cable news that were shot off in caves from the middle east.
The lighting was terrible in almost ever setting, especially Tulin's at C-USA. Who hard is it to get some extra lighting in the room and spruce up the production. Most amateur Youtubers can do this with no budget.
Q&A from the media? Just Tulin asking questions. Not really a media day if the media isn't thee to answer questions.
The Good
Most of the players and coaches were very good interviews. In my opinion, Charlotte's personnel did a fantastic job of handling the content of their interviews.
The overall graphics were much better than what we have seen in the past, and much better than I expected.
The western programs have about 24 hours to muster up some better production equipment and effects (lighting, backgrounds, props, ...). I pray Littrell doesn't do his interview from behind his cheap particle board IKEA desk.
The western programs have about 24 hours to arrange some of their local media to be present and ask questions. Don't know if C-USA would include that portion in the stream, but it would look good to have actual media at a "media day" event.
The Worst and Most Obvious Fact
In 2013 when our current configuration first got together, C-USA had a weekly spotlight show on the Fox regional networks. Now we are reduced to a Zoom media day's event being streamed online. Wow, that is a sad indictment of our leadership. Judy has to go. After that, we need to look at the rest of the conference office and start asking our AD's some questions that might make them uncomfortable. C-USA has to be better than what we are now.
clt declares Charlotte the flagship of media days
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - Side.Show.Joe - 07-23-2021 01:50 PM
Just want to say that the second day of our media Zoom calls was trash too. It was embarrassing to watch. All of our athletic directors are trying to sell season tickets, but none of them have enough snap to use this event to market the season. It's just sad, and I'm very frustrated with where things are. People need to be losing their jobs.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - HogDawg - 07-25-2021 10:58 PM
(07-23-2021 01:50 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: Just want to say that the second day of our media Zoom calls was trash too. It was embarrassing to watch. All of our athletic directors are trying to sell season tickets, but none of them have enough snap to use this event to market the season. It's just sad, and I'm very frustrated with where things are. People need to be losing their jobs.
It's amateur hour when you start talking about the CUSA AD's. We've got too many career climbers in those AD roles, who are just not interested in getting their hands dirty to make improvements.
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - ghostofclt! - 07-26-2021 03:48 PM
(07-25-2021 10:58 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-23-2021 01:50 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: Just want to say that the second day of our media Zoom calls was trash too. It was embarrassing to watch. All of our athletic directors are trying to sell season tickets, but none of them have enough snap to use this event to market the season. It's just sad, and I'm very frustrated with where things are. People need to be losing their jobs.
It's amateur hour when you start talking about the CUSA AD's. We've got too many career climbers in those AD roles, who are just not interested in getting their hands dirty to make improvements.
clt says it is better to have someone on the way up, rather than someone just hanging around
RE: C-USA skips out on hosting traditional Media Days - HogDawg - 07-26-2021 09:43 PM
(07-26-2021 03:48 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:(07-25-2021 10:58 PM)HogDawg Wrote:(07-23-2021 01:50 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: Just want to say that the second day of our media Zoom calls was trash too. It was embarrassing to watch. All of our athletic directors are trying to sell season tickets, but none of them have enough snap to use this event to market the season. It's just sad, and I'm very frustrated with where things are. People need to be losing their jobs.
It's amateur hour when you start talking about the CUSA AD's. We've got too many career climbers in those AD roles, who are just not interested in getting their hands dirty to make improvements.
clt says it is better to have someone on the way up, rather than someone just hanging around
Is it? Why? So you can live with their newbie mistakes?