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Difference in PJ Star coverage of local teams

So much for " feeling fine with moving on".....:)

I am fine with moving on, maybe others should, too... but when posters attack me, I am going to speak the truth. Maybe you think I host this site just to allow all the complainers and haters to get their shots in?
 
Da Coach, nobody is attacking anybody on this board as far as I can tell. Geez, people just need to relax. We're talking about basketball here, basketball. Why are so people so concerned about defending their honor from "haters"? Good Lord, Almighty.
 
Da Coach, nobody is attacking anybody on this board as far as I can tell. Geez, people just need to relax. We're talking about basketball here, basketball. Why are so people so concerned about defending their honor from "haters"? Good Lord, Almighty.

Agreed. I see no one attacking.

I do see people not agreeing with each other.
 
I am fine with moving on, maybe others should, too... but when posters attack me, I am going to speak the truth. Maybe you think I host this site just to allow all the complainers and haters to get their shots in?


Oh please stop with the drama...no one is attacking you. My goodness we aren't in high School. We've all been around the block a few times...some more then others. :) I think we can handle some reasonable disagreements about something we are all passionate about..maybe TO passionate.

Besides, you started this lastest thread you KNEW would create controversy then get all defensive at the reponses you certainly expected....if you throw out a hardline opinion expect some hardline responses back.

People disagree...so what....?
 
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Da Coach -- you see how you start a topic that's clearly about the disparity in the way the PJS covers BU vs. how they cover other teams...

then NOT ONE response sticks to that idea...and every one of them try to argue that UNLV is actually a pretty good team.....something you yourself actually stated right from the start!

If someone is gonna try to say Da Coach is wrong in his assessment, then show an example of BU getting beat by 30, that the OPJS covers positively and doesn't rip on the Braves tanking it......

Can't understand why the PJS covering BU differently than ISU is a big deal.
Do they have two reporters dedicated to ISU MBB coverage?

If you don't like the way PJS covers Bradley MBB:
1. Don't buy/read the paper
2. Don't allow any content from the paper in this Forum's threads
3. Become PJS Sports Editor and dictate content/headlines
4. Buy a controlling interest in the PJS and do anything you want with the Sports Section.

Personally, I could care less about what/how the PJS paper says about ISU and its basketball program. If I am interested in them, I'll check the Bloomington Pantagraph.

The PJS Sports Section has a good cop (Reynolds) and a bad cop (Wessler) covering BU MBB. I suspect the good cop goes easy on BU and the bad cop comes down hard in PJS reporting. Seems to me the local BU fan bases' current opinions to the Braves MBB Program and JL reflects the current 50-50love-hate division within the US between Liberals and Conservatives.

Maybe, just maybe, the PJS choice of storylines/headlines right now is reflecting the 50% of their circulation who agrees with their bad cops' assessment/opinion of BU MBB and JL right now. Probably due to the positive buildup the PJS gave BU and their players in their preseason articles Vs the less than ideal results so far.

When things go against the predictions, and the paper calls out the team, all of a sudden its news the PJS is biased against BU and for ISU and this is an important post?

Please proove to me any signifcant win BU has had has been discounted by the PJS?

I am sure the PJS would absolutely GUSH over BU and JL if they were 7-0 right now, and had not lost to D-II Quincy in a new on campus facility home opener.

Getting better players, improving effort and performance, and winning, will make this thread irrelevant.
 
You haven't seen my PMs :)


Well IF people are "attacking" you in PM's thats bush league.....its all fun, at least it SHOULD be and I know I never carry and grudges.

I love the exchange, like to debate and try to keep an open mind even though I am usually right.

:)
 
Well IF people are "attacking" you in PM's thats bush league.....its all fun, at least it SHOULD be and I know I never carry and grudges.

I love the exchange, like to debate and try to keep an open mind even though I am usually right.

:)

Same here ;)
 
Hey -- I have a simple question...

Bradley has a BIG game today, right??
Most local papers would have a big game-day story, right??
Can someone link to me to the story about BU hosting Utah tonight??


Never mind, I'll do it myself..here's the link..
http://www.bradleyhoops.com/

so where on that page is it??

Is there anything there in the entire online or print version of the local newspaper, the Peoria Journal Star, that tells us about tonight's opponent, Utah??
You have to dig like crazy to even find out who Bradley is playing tonight...

Now....you can believe what you want, but this is really, really bad coverage...


The Utah press....from 1000 miles away, has coverage that puts what we have to absolute SHAME...
http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/s...-take-on-daunting-bradley-backcourt-1.2421064



BTW -- the Illini fans have nothing to complain about -- Supinine gives great coverage!
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/illini/x1145375513/McCamey-a-scary-player-right-now
 
I thought the same thing T. Was a nice story about a walk on, but that should have been a story for an off day.
 
I agree -- it was a story about how Charron helped us out in the game last Tuesday...
so it's a story that would have been relevant last Tuesday night, maybe Wednesday morning, maybe Thursday...
but it shows up FOUR days after the game and substitutes for the game-day coverage most BU fans have come to expect and utilize to learn about the opponent...
Especially for a home game --
I have to think a whole lot of people reading the paper this morning
who might be POTENTIAL walk-up customers/fans...
DON'T even know from reading the paper that there is a game tonight!!!
 
www.bradleyhoops.com

The link to the nice biopic story about Charonn Woods has now been added to the Bradleyhoops page. It was nowhere to be found until now. But I agree that most fans would probably like to know a little more about the game and the team Bradley is playing tonight.

I am pretty sure Marshall Henderson is gone, and another kid Bradley recruited, Shawn Glover, is now a starter for Utah. But there should be more about the Utah team.
I believe their leading scorer is Will Clyburn, a juco kid that Iowa State and a couple MVC teams recruited hard.
For more info about Utah and the game, click the top thread on the board.
 
I agree with you guys(grab the smelling salts;))....I thought there would be somewhat of a story about the game with Utah..other than at the end of the Woods article....

But I'm not cancelling my subscription yet either:)...30 year habits are hard to break
 
Probably the single most ridiculous - and pointless - thread I've ever seen on this board. And, mea culpa: I haven't helped matters by posting three or four times!

A few things:

1. There is no bias against BU from the PJStar. It simply does not exist. Reynolds is paid to be a straightforward reporter of the facts - which he is - and Wessler is paid to offer his opinion - which he does. Now, that doesn't account for that rogue/sith lord copy editor I mentioned earlier :).

2. I've lived in New York City for 15 of the past 17 years. I read the papers here every day. I can't imagine how the conspiracy theorists on this board would react if they lived here and read the New York Post and Daily News. There would have to be an entire fan site just to handle the complaints about bias by the NYC media!

3. I frankly think that BU - and fans like us - are fortunate that, in this area of newspaper cutbacks and layoffs, the PJS continues to cover BU extensively, at home and on the road.

4. I love Jim Les as much as anyone you're ever going to meet but the bottom line is that BU has been mediocre-to-decent for a lengthy stretch of time and the PJS wouldn't be doing their jobs if they were looking at things with rose-colored glasses.

5. Da Coach, I think you're way, way off base on this front but, that said, I appreciate all the work that you and others do to make this board such a great forum for BU hoops. you do a great, great job and, while I don't post often, I stop by this board every day.

6. Go BU. Let's win some stinkin' games!!!!

A few things back:
1. There is bias from the PJStar. PERIOD!
2. Apples to Oranges - Everybody knows NYC is VERY tough on NY teams.
3. The PJS knows what pays the bills. (Even though they are in the red)
4. Mediocre is what JL's training facilities have been since coming here. How would you like to have a recruit in your office and a mouse runs across the printer behind you. As a past college athlete, I would say no thanks to that school.
5. Da Coach - You are right on base. Keep up the good work!
6. Go BU - Only thing I can agree with.

GO BRAVES!
 
Perhaps the pjstar bosses saw our thread about how much the pjstar coverage of BU sucks, so they decided to pull the plug on BU hoops stories all together lol.

Jason
 
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