Topic: 2022-23 HERD Sports Season . . .

[coalherd]

. . . "unofficially" kicked off yesterday, 8/9, with an exhibition match at the Hoops Field between the women's soccer teams of MU and EKU.  Or did it?  Nothing on HERD Zone.  No mention anywhere.  Wonder if the game was played.

Yep, it doesn't "count" for anything, being exhibition play.  Guess we won't be hearing anything, then, about the men's team action when they open play at Rio Grande on August 12.  Or return to the Hoops facility for another "exhibition" match versus Radford.  Or again when they play a THIRD Exhibition at Maryland a few days later.  With all on his plate currently, with a new Athletic Year/Season underway, I certainly don't want our new AD have to deal with something like an EEOC complaint!   ;)

[Daherdboy]

See how important the Sports Information Dept. is?
Getting people to staff the department, but they need to be working NOW.

[chris88]

They did play. As usual for exh games, you're lucky to get anything about what happened unless someone was there or it was on tv (this wasn't). I looked on MU, EKU, and HD running blog and nothing was posted.  That had a few pics on women's soccer twitter.

[MarshallHerdFan99]

See how important the Sports Information Dept. is?
Getting people to staff the department, but they need to be working NOW.

They posted a new position on the jobs board. Associate SID. Gonna be applying for that. 35,000-44,000 experience. Hoping my sports management degree from Marshall helps. Nothing more that I want then to work in the Athletic Department


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[miltonherdfan]

They posted a new position on the jobs board. Associate SID. Gonna be applying for that. 35,000-44,000 experience. Hoping my sports management degree from Marshall helps. Nothing more that I want then to work in the Athletic Department


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did they fill the head SID?  or both jobs open now?

[MarshallHerdFan99]

did they fill the head SID?  or both jobs open now?

The post for the head isn?t on the board site so I assume it?s been filled


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[coalherd]

They did play. As usual for exh games, you're lucky to get anything about what happened unless someone was there or it was on tv (this wasn't). I looked on MU, EKU, and HD running blog and nothing was posted.  That had a few pics on women's soccer twitter.

Then, for example, when the basketball schedules are posted on HERD Zone, the exhibition games are shown.  And then after those games are played the results are posted on HZ, and stay on the site thereafter.  Just saying our Athletic Department should be CONSISTENT on all sports at MU.  Give all sports, and the athletes who play them, equal treatment.  Fans have varying likes/dislikes, favorites among different sports, etc.  Some follow soccer, and maybe nothing else.  Others may like basketball and baseball, etc., etc.  The more coverage and exposure we give ALL MU Sports, better off for the school as a whole, IMO.  I now depart my "soapbox"!  :)

[DC01HERD]

See how important the Sports Information Dept. is?
Getting people to staff the department, but they need to be working NOW.

This has to get resolved soon. The Fall season has started.

[chris88]

Then, for example, when the basketball schedules are posted on HERD Zone, the exhibition games are shown.  And then after those games are played the results are posted on HZ, and stay on the site thereafter.  Just saying our Athletic Department should be CONSISTENT on all sports at MU.  Give all sports, and the athletes who play them, equal treatment.  Fans have varying likes/dislikes, favorites among different sports, etc.  Some follow soccer, and maybe nothing else.  Others may like basketball and baseball, etc., etc.  The more coverage and exposure we give ALL MU Sports, better off for the school as a whole, IMO.  I now depart my "soapbox"!  :)

Agree. Part of the problem is the same company seems to do almost all of the college official athletics sites. Not sure how the maintenance of those sites work but it is lacking for a lot of schools. I went to one site and they didn't even have their 2022 soccer schedule posted yet.

In the case of exhibitions for soccer and other sports with less resources it could be that nobody kept official stats etc. Or, as I said earlier, it's possible the coaches of both squads don't want info disseminated about rosters/tactics etc to those who might gain from it. Especially the first few opponents. Football is the most followed sport by far at MU and it's like Fort Know in trying to get info. In old days there were plenty of articles etc about position battles etc. Now you get a 2 paragraph nothing burger article with virtually no substance from HD. In season you can usually get the final box later that day on Herdzone. Unfortunately, that is about all you can expect along with a small token artcile.

[coalherd]

Agree. Part of the problem is the same company seems to do almost all of the college official athletics sites. Not sure how the maintenance of those sites work but it is lacking for a lot of schools. I went to one site and they didn't even have their 2022 soccer schedule posted yet.

In the case of exhibitions for soccer and other sports with less resources it could be that nobody kept official stats etc. Or, as I said earlier, it's possible the coaches of both squads don't want info disseminated about rosters/tactics etc to those who might gain from it. Especially the first few opponents. Football is the most followed sport by far at MU and it's like Fort Know in trying to get info. In old days there were plenty of articles etc about position battles etc. Now you get a 2 paragraph nothing burger article with virtually no substance from HD. In season you can usually get the final box later that day on Herdzone. Unfortunately, that is about all you can expect along with a small token artcile.

Well 88, one of the problems is the state of journalism and the struggle to survey by virtually all newspapers especially in smaller cities and towns, like Huntington.  Not that long ago there were 2 daily newspapers in Charleston and several years prior to the demise of the evening paper there, Huntington had 2 daily papers, the Advertiser and the Herald-Dispatch.  Today, under HD Media, the Gazette-Mail in Charleston and the Huntington paper are in many ways "carbon copies" of each other in much of their content.  Where each Huntington paper when I was at MU had 3, 4 maybe 5 sports writers and columnists, today there may be one writer who covers MU sports and his work is found in BOTH the Huntington and the Charleston papers!!

As for schools having the same people overseeing their sports websites, I know some schools have their own Web Masters, who help keep their athletic websites up to date and "modern" in terms of technology, etc.  MU has both a School of Mass Communications and also has computer science programs, professors and students.  How hard would it be to have graduate students in computer science "employed" or as interns or through work study programs, work on the HERD Zone site in the Athletic Department to keep it on the "cutting edge" in terms of its technology and to enhance the Athletic Department staff's ability to upgrade or improve the site's content, keep it current, etc.?

[chris88]

Well 88, one of the problems is the state of journalism and the struggle to survey by virtually all newspapers especially in smaller cities and towns, like Huntington.  Not that long ago there were 2 daily newspapers in Charleston and several years prior to the demise of the evening paper there, Huntington had 2 daily papers, the Advertiser and the Herald-Dispatch.  Today, under HD Media, the Gazette-Mail in Charleston and the Huntington paper are in many ways "carbon copies" of each other in much of their content.  Where each Huntington paper when I was at MU had 3, 4 maybe 5 sports writers and columnists, today there may be one writer who covers MU sports and his work is found in BOTH the Huntington and the Charleston papers!!

As for schools having the same people overseeing their sports websites, I know some schools have their own Web Masters, who help keep their athletic websites up to date and "modern" in terms of technology, etc.  MU has both a School of Mass Communications and also has computer science programs, professors and students.  How hard would it be to have graduate students in computer science "employed" or as interns or through work study programs, work on the HERD Zone site in the Athletic Department to keep it on the "cutting edge" in terms of its technology and to enhance the Athletic Department staff's ability to upgrade or improve the site's content, keep it current, etc.?

I agree 100%. See no reason why MU doesn't use students to report and do maintenance. Surely you can find one person who regularly attends womens soccer/volleyball etc to write up a quick article after games. In fact I'm sure people would read the Parthenon articles if they were distributed to other outlets. Sort of like our BB insiders do but just postgame observations.  It doesn't help when FB doesn't even allow people to attend practice. The one thing I disagree with is, imo, the lack of print newspapers should not prevent the same or even more coverage. Jake Griffin, for example, busts his butt to cover MU sports in many capacities.  We need 2-3 more like him (even if they don't broadcast) because Jake is spread too thin. No reason the athletic dept can't work with Jake and a few others to make sure all MU sports have adequate coverage and the site is maintained.