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Date Posted: Monday, September 06, 10:38:55am
Author: Marquis
Subject: A New Strategy to Get Local Press Coverage

(Copied from the Duquesne Football Forum since the coverage issue applies to basketball as well)

How in the world can the Duquesne Press Box be full (it was) and there still be no story of the Bucknell game in the local Sunday Papers? It was a beautiful opening game evening with a good crowd, Pitt had played earlier, a Patriot League opponent, the NEC is now a legitimate NCAA FCS Playoff Conference, with three radio broadcasts (one nationally) and neither the Press nor Trib had even a wire service summary. The Press had a nice picture of the Dukes swarming under the Bucknell QB for a loss so they were aware that there was a game, but not one word in print. There was more national and Bucknell media there than local and the field is within two miles of both papers offices.

Robert Morris was covered. So was St. Francis, Cal. CMU, IUP, Edinboro, Westminster, St. Vincent, Grove City, Allegheny, Bethany, and Seton Hill, but a nationally recognized (Forbes and USN&WR)Tier I University with over 10,000 students right in the heart of the city playing a home game in a FCS, Division I Conference was not.

The game didn't last that late so there was time to patch together wire service copies from out of town. Duquesne couldn't have played closer to the heart of Pittsburgh if they moved the game to Point Park.

I advise playing the next home game on the roof of the Tribune Review Building or on the street outside the PG Building. Either that or move the entire university to some small town in northern West Virginia and change conferences to D-III to get an article in the "College Round-Up" section of the "local" press.

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By the way, since you may not have read about it, Duquesne won 17-13. (NT) -- Marquis, Monday, September 06, 10:43:51am
Are you trying to say that you have found that there in another Division I university somewhere in the area other than Pitt? (NT) -- Coffee, Monday, September 06, 12:25:30pm
The constant whining on this board is pathetic. Try getting a later edition of the Sunday paper. I read the story on the game yesterday. Pitt, PSU, and WVU are major college programs. We are not. Get over it. (NT) -- duq81, Monday, September 06, 01:21:20pm
- I still don't see a story in either papers' online editions...can you only get it in print for some reason? This doesn't seem like whining to me at all, there is actually a pretty good argument for pathetic coverage. (NT) -- Slim, Monday, September 06, 05:51:49pm
I totally agree, Marquis. Pathetic. And Duq81, would you feel the same if Duquesne MBB was left off the ESPN ticker? (NT) -- Alan, Monday, September 06, 05:32:39pm
- DU hoops is a major college program, pathetic as it's been at times. DU football is NOT a major college program. It's not even a real contender at the FCS level. We'd give Villanova (FCS Champs), a better game in hoops than we would in football (NT) -- duq81, Monday, September 06, 08:31:38pm
  - duq 81 -- Coffee, Monday, September 06, 10:54:15pm
    - Inside -- duq81, Tuesday, September 07, 02:14:50am
      - Here's where you're wrong duq81...if you read Marquis' post, it says nothing about Pitt football. It talks about the lack of coverage of Duquesne in comparison to schools of equal or lesser stature. You are the one who brought Pitt and WVU into this discussion, not Marquis. And personally, as an out of town fan, I still don't see a story in the on-line editions of either paper. (NT) -- Slim, Tuesday, September 07, 08:58:23am
        You're right on that. I probably blended this post into the one with all of the whining about Pitt. If folks on this board are looking for a legit axe to grind, I suggest they keep an eye on coverage of women's hoops. Our girls are at least as good as Pitt, and are coached by a local legend. Other than when UConn comes to town, I expect to see equal coverage. (NT) -- duq81, Tuesday, September 07, 12:49:54pm
        For the record ... better said, IMHO ... there was no whining about Pitt. One poster took a good-natured poke and a couple (or perhaps one posting under mutliple aliases) humorless nerds took it upon themselves to disparage DU. And if they're disparaging DU, are they not also trashing the entire education system? And for that matter, the United States of America? Well, I'm simply not going to let them bash the United States of America! (NT) -- El Duque, Tuesday, September 07, 02:03:20pm
        What an orator you are! I believe I may have heard that speech before. It never fails to lift one's spirit! GO DUKES! (NT) -- Always a Duke, Tuesday, September 07, 02:24:16pm
        Mom, Apple Pie, 4th of July and Duquesne or Die! -- Coffee, Tuesday, September 07, 03:50:39pm

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