His fantasy football hour from 4-5 is incredible. If you like sports betting he's a good listen as well
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His fantasy football hour from 4-5 is incredible. If you like sports betting he's a good listen as well
Fletch was on vacation all last week. He has Tech coaches on weekly in season and has Marty Cordaro on for about 30 minutes every Wednesday where they split time between baseball and Tech. In general he is really complimentary on Tech and is of the opinion that we are a clear 2 in Louisiana and better than most P5 teams that are having a down season. At least when I listen, 7:30-8:30, I feel like it is an even mix between pro sports, LSU, Tech, and high school.
Thats what Ive gathered. He has a a good focus on SEC, specifically LSU and a little Arkansas. He's pretty high on Tech athletics and usually very complimentary. And of course he covers other things that may be of inteterest to some listeners, like other NLA universities and high school sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by zharkins
The Monroe News-Star: Tech football Held Hostage -- Day 8
Of all the trees they've killed this week not one has been used to PRINT one word about Louisiana Tech football pre-season practices.
#Disappointed
#Conspiracy
#Apathy
#IgnoringTheCustomer
#ButWe'reWorkingOnOurAnnualHighSchoolSpecialSectio n
Hostage Update: Day 12 without a single Tech article in The Times.
It's intentional what they are doing (or not doing).
Coming up from Fletch:
Good morning!
8:00 Bob Kesling, voice of @Vol_Football
8:30 @LATechMButler for #TechTuesday
And at a time TBA, @myoder84 of @thecomeback
It's obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by qng001
Our leaders continue to suck up to them.
Other than Luke, first Tech interview in a lonnnngggg time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Tmac on vacation, saw on Twitter he is fishing in the Gulf this past weekend. I wonder if he is back in the office.
Nothing is going to change with the coverage we get from Gannett until there is a change in management overseeing sports coverage.
Any comment from our Fearless Leaders about this?
Guess you've never taken a vacation . . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by qng001
Meanwhile, nice feature on Tommy's family and MedCamps on KNOE:
http://www.knoe.com/content/sports/M...439125293.html
Oh, boy. Don't you love his dissemination of information??
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To say it's an even mix is quite frankly not true.Quote:
Originally Posted by zharkins
If all you expect is about 15 minutes of Tech talk over the 900 minutes he's on air each week, then I guess you could call it fair 28 weeks of the year.
Over the last year, Fletch has aired:
- 0 Guice interviews
- 1 McClelland interview
- 12 Holtz interviews
- 9 Konkol interviews
- 0 Stoehr interviews
- 2 Burroughs interview
- 2 Montgomery interviews
- 0 player interviews
- 1 SID interview
- 0 Nitz, Allen, Thigpen interviews
- 0 Tech beat writer interviews
- 0 BleedTechBlue interviews
- 1 former player interview (McCown)
That's only 28 total Tech segments over an entire year, which equals less than 0.9% of Fletch's air time. Maybe I should be generous and count Cordaro's 19 interviews. Martie ups it to 47 total Tech segments over the entire year, which equals about only about 1.5% of air time. He talks a little Tech here and there outside those segments when prompted by listeners so I'd put his total Tech talk at about 2% of his entire show. I don't know about you, but I think the biggest show in North Louisiana deserves a lot more than 2% of the air time. Fox, Mintz, and Dietrich give Tech at least quadruple the Tech talk that Fletch does, and Dietrich's show is an hour shorter. It's also fact that Fletch cut his Tech talk in half after NWST started sponsoring his show.
And Fletch's opinion of Tech changes when he has ULL's Travis Webb on the show.
Maybe flaunting vacations among other things on his twitter isn't the best decision for an AD who has trouble interacting with the common fan? Facebook or Instagram would be more appropriate platforms for vacation pics IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Its his personal twitter account. Its just as appropriate as posting it on facebook.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
I disagree. It's a very different audience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
He doesn't know what he don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
I'd tweet at Guice (and TMac, I guess) but I dont receive either the Times or the News Star. So I don't have a dawg in the fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Hand Clyde
Hey, Rabbit Ears, maybe we'll await an answer from the person I was addressing my question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Yes, but he's the AD and we are ramping up the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I don't do the guy's work schedule, but he and his family is entitled to vacation time, just like yours and mine. If all the nuts and bolts aren't connected in the pressbox, then, yeah, he shoulda been up there hammering more.Quote:
Originally Posted by qng001
actually, you can't pick a worse vacation time than right now.....
.....must be that paid for "vacation" from that AAC school
Very nice piece by Aaron. He continues to serve our community and LaTech with great stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I'm not tracking with you on this. There's a pretty sizable overlap amongst the various social media platformsQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Moreover, I'm a civil servant. I also use a personal twitter account, and I post my vacation pics on it. But I'd expect my (reasonable) constituents to recognize a separation between my personal and professional accounts. I'm no fan of TMac, but I'm willing to extend him at least that courtesy.
Twitter is a much different audience than Facebook. I expect FB feeds to be full of family photos, vacations, etc...
Twitter (especially official Twitter accounts) is primarily for brand communication and now mostly for social commentary.
I keep my accounts pretty separated, but some people don't.
TMac tweeting a picture of his family on vacation is supposed to be cute, not controversial. I think it would be considered cute had we had any coverage whatsoever in the newspaper. Some of this is TMac's fault. Some of this is our SID fault. Some of this is Holtz's fault. Some of this is Guice's fault. BUT please do not misunderstand that 90% of this is directly the fault of the news mafia of North Louisiana.
I concur. While I certainly have no problem with anyone taking a vacation, I was just thinking how genuinely odd it is for an FBS AD --and this one in particular-- to take a vacation right now. With our fall practice already started, our new construction not yet completed, school starting and the football ticket selling season already in high gear, it does seem odd that our AD would take a vacation right now. Maybe he should be thinking about promoting the upcoming season?Quote:
Originally Posted by faninmonroe
He' probably interviewing for an assistant AD job somewhere.
He's never worried about it before, why start now?Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Yet here we are discussing it, aren't we? He can choose to express or brand himself however he likes across various social media platforms, but posting pics of donors choosing carpet, personal leisure pics, etc. on twitter isn't very wise considering his twitter audience, especially when he already has a problem connecting with the common Tech fans. By posting certain pics, he's inviting totally avoidable and unnecessary criticism. I usually just ignore those things, but QNG brought it up so I commented. If he just puts his deep sea fishing pics with his bros on Facebook or Instagram, nobody would've said anything about it, or if he was with his wife and kids, nobody would've said anything. Twitter is the primary platform for him to communicate with common Tech fans unlike other social media platforms. It's called knowing your audience and the message being conveyed to them. Pretty simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
His twitter account is NOT connected to Tech. Sounds like it's his only account. I do the same with my account. Tommy's profile is personal AND professional. A don't see family in the deep fishing pics. Y'all sure he wasn't fishing for donations or future donations? Here's his profile:
"Servant. Husband to Jessica. Father to two wonderful boys. Director of Athletics at Louisiana Tech University."
PS- A personal irony about Twitter accounts and professional usage . . . as much Tech stuff as I publish on my Twitter account (99%), Tommy does not follow it. (And neither do Marco or Dr. G . . . But DeeWayne (and the News-Star guy) do!)
No, we are discussing this because you are grasping for something to complain about. It's a non-issue, but you are choosing to make it one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
:laugh: Nice try. I wasn't the one who brought it up. :icon_roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
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You make some salient points, but I remain unpersuaded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
TMac has an image problem. But I'll give him a pass on his (personal) twitter.
The Louisiana Tech AD's twitter account isn't connected to Tech even though you say it says "Director of Athletics at Louisiana Tech University" in his bio? :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I wonder what the 3.6K accounts follow him for since "his twitter account is NOT connected to Tech"...
Latechsports.com links his twitter account... http://www.latechsports.com/staffdir/latc-staffdir.html Looks connected to me.
If he was fishing for donations, it may have been a good idea to communicate that.
Geeze Louise 06! Take a breath. :icon_roll:
Do other universities have this problem?
What is a civil servant?Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
No. I only follow Tech. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
In this case, it means he provides public institutions official warnings when attempting to demolish/replace buildings over a certain age ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by olddog75
Same ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Get. Over. Yourself. Jesus Christ, dude. Flaunting vacations on Twitter? We live in a social media world. And believe it or not, you're not the expert on what platforms are the best for all things in other people's lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
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By "hell week" does that mean he was forced to not cover the largest university in this part of the state, and their unique fall camp?
I just don't get it. The first article on Tech and it's a negative article about our challenges in the secondary.
One of my pet peeves is when restaurant servers explain their bad service to me by saying they've been too busy with another table. Although I realize the manager is responsible for staff assignments, the server actually is saying "Sorry I didn't take care of your table. I decided another table was more important than yours."
Diaz's "Hell Week" explanation feels like that...
A badass mofo.Quote:
Originally Posted by olddog75
I agree. Great analogy.Quote:
Originally Posted by maverick
Another article today by Cory. Unfortunately another negative one. Quarterback is no good and we are not ready for the season basically.
He is buying the coach speak. No way he can evaluate being so green. Let's see how he does mid season.Quote:
Originally Posted by detltu
I'm sure every team looks "horrible" to an Alabama fan... ;) maybe someone should show him the highlights of 1997 & 1999 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I'm thinking Ferrell has already limited his budget to not allow his travel to our away games. They will instruct him to cover Grambling on the road just to rub it in.
The coaches always seem to talk like that. Of course there are concerns, and it sounds like they are addressing them by giving the backup more practice than normal because we need to be prepared for the worst.Quote:
Originally Posted by detltu
It's coach speak. We have a 5th year coach who has been building this program. No excuses. Just reload every year and win at least 8 or 9 games. That's who we are.
Mr. Diaz bragged about being away for a week. Came back for a day. But, not there today at practice.
I would hardly call that bragging.
Whatever . . . his first tweet on Aug. 8:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
Cory Diaz @CoryDiaz_TNS Aug 8More
Don't fret anymore, folks. I'm back! #DontCallItAComeback @LATechFB #LATech
Are we are the only FBS Football team without a full time beat writer?
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Originally Posted by olddog75
Probably the only non-Sun Belt.Quote:
Originally Posted by revf
The fact he used the word "fret" tells me has was joking. Maybe he read this thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I had a family funeral to attend so I missed him at Saturday's scrimmage.
Don't fret!
He used one of my spring game pics to go with his story in Sunday's dead-tree edition.
Gannett is shutting down Shreveport's new printing press. The Times will be printed in Longview, Texas, and TNS will be printed in Jackson, Mississippi. :rolleyes4:
Another brick in the wall. Next move will probably make Shreveport a satellite of Longview, getting rid of the management & admin functions. Ditto Monroe to Jackson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
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Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
This has nothing to do with their poor business practices over the past several years. It just that "the business is changing".:icon_roll:
Can you say 3-days-a-week?
I wonder if our advertising sales experts are still negotiating for the same deal we had 5 years ago with the Gannett guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
If that happens, they may get less LSU-centric/Tech-hatin' editors/writers and more of an unbiased group from Texas (unbiased in terms of Louisiana at least) ;) Weren't Ferrell and someone else in Shreveport at Gannett Tech Hatin'Quote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
Ferrell and Lang refuse to cover Tech unless 1) we're playing LSU or 2) something bad happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by BearDawg137
I hope Jimmy Watson lands on his feet. He deserves much better treatment that he seems to have received from Gannett.
So I guess when we beat LSpoo next year they'll refuse to publish that too ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
I notice Ferrell staffed a NSU scrimmage the other day . . . .
No one has mentioned it here but there is a web site called The Louisiana Tech Media Hub at www.latechreport.com/ that puts all of the recent articles on line. Most of you probably know about it.
I'd wager a member of this forum runs it ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
It will be interesting to see what happens to the Sunday LSU section of The Times after the season starts with their 7 PM print deadline. LSU-BYU won't end until after midnight.Quote:
Originally Posted by BearDawg137
Hmmm. I still remember Watson lambasting Tech fans for wanting to fire Jack Bicknell during his last year as coach. If Watson had his way, JBIII would still be our head coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Yeah, J.W. and many more of our fans loved Bicknell. Dooley made amends and things were great until The Times decided they didn't want anybody actually covering Tech. I guarantee it hurt him to see the lack of Tech coverage for the past several years over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Lang was on Mixin it up with Mintz this afternoon. He talked of his Los Angeles travels with the three Shreveport golfers playing in the US Am. He spoke a bit about getting geared up to cover H.S. football, lsu and the cowboys in addition to the 130M sports complex the City of Shreveport is proposing. If there are two teams that don't need a thread-bare sports staff covering it's lsu and the cowboys. Mintz is a different story. He had a great remote show last week at Freedom Fields covering the Dawgs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
You would think Donald Trump was head coach at TECH. No news but bad news. In fact, invite him to a game so they can kill two birds with one stone.