Courant Couldn't Care Less

[Dribbles]

Springfield College hosts top 10 boy's bball each year. Right now, its No. 1 nationally (Pointeverde) vs. No. 2 (Findley Prep), but not a word about it in the "nation's oldest continuously published newspaper".

I've written them complaining in past years - no reaction, no response, no change

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

Not to rain on your parade, but the Courant typically caters to Connecticut-based news.

 

[husky99]

Amore is in NY covering our two newest recruits and will be posting soon

 

[uconnfan68]

Not to rain on your parade, but the Courant typically caters to Connecticut-based news.

And they wonder why no one buys it. It's not like it's Springfield, IL.

 

[Gurleyman]

Springfield has its own paper that can cover it. There's a pretty big UConn event tonight, with the UConn athletic department, local sponsors and tv ratings hawks probably preferring that the state's primary paper not drive entertainment dollars into Massachusetts.

Granted, pro sports are all out of state, but that's different than high schools.

 

[Jerry1714]

Dez is too busy breaking the Delone to the Giants story...................

 

[husky99]

Springfield has its own paper that can cover it. There's a pretty big UConn event tonight, with the UConn athletic department, local sponsors and tv ratings hawks probably preferring that the state's primary paper not drive entertainment dollars into Massachusetts.

Granted, pro sports are all out of state, but that's different than high schools.

not many uconn recruits there. more for rival and scout to cover

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

And they wonder why no one buys it. It's not like it's Springfield, IL.

Do people not buy the Courant because it doesnt prominently feature high school basketball tournaments in a neighboring state? I consider myself a reasonably avid sports fan and I could not conceivably care less if high school sports get covered in the paper.

 

[aceboon]

Lol, the main reason why I mostly don't pay attention to the sports sections of the CT papers is because too much coverage is devoted to HS sports that I don't care about. As its been pointed out, Amore is in nyc watching Facey and Samuels, I'd much rather read about that since those are UConn guys.

 

[Gurleyman]

Sports pages years ago learned that if they put 50 high school kids names in the paper, they'd sell 200 more papers, because every family would buy four of them. Same principle doesn't work for college kids - many are from out of state, and the parents don't go gaga over every blurb any more at that age (if they were good enough to play in college, they probably got plenty of blurbs in high school).

So that's why you'll always get to read a couple lines about the RHAM-Coventry game, at least as long as they print newspapers.

 

[mauconnfan]

My son was at a couple games with HS teammates.........said Simeon may beat Agawam 120-25........lol..........always some good basketball at SC for this...........

 

[Dribbles]

Do people not buy the Courant because it doesnt prominently feature high school basketball tournaments in a neighboring state? I consider myself a reasonably avid sports fan and I could not conceivably care less if high school sports get covered in the paper.

Don't want to startle you, but you the kids playing in Springfield tonite you'll be seeing next year ar Duke and Kentucky.

 

[HooperScooper]

My son was at a couple games with HS teammates.........said Simeon may beat Agawam 120-25........lol..........always some good basketball at SC for this...........

Why is Simeon traveling 1000 miles to play freaking Agawam? You have to be kidding.

 

[CL82]

Dez is too busy breaking the Delone to the Giants story...................

Still bitter? I know I am. That was a happy day...for a while.

 

[Dribbles]

And they wonder why no one buys it. It's not like it's Springfield, IL.

And I didn't make my point very well. I don't expect Courant or Amore to actually cover an out of state boy's tourney; I'm just looking for the paper to mention that such a high level event will occurr which happens to be only 25 miles or less from many of us.

 

[mauconnfan]

Why is Simeon traveling 1000 miles to play freaking Agawam? You have to be kidding.

C'mon Hooper it was an "if they played" sort of comment.........teams don't even want to travel from Westside to play Agawam LOL.......... 1-10 this year!!! Winning is not part of the "fun" of Agawam sports!!