New Gannett "beat writer" for Tech/Grambling/HS

After Gannett tortured Louisiana Tech fans with 3 consecutive LSU fans covering Tech sports part-time, the good news is we no longer have an LSU fan on the job: https://twitter.com/CoryDiaz_TNS

However, the big disappointment is Gannett is still treating Tech like we aren't a major college by splitting our beat with Grambling. I hope Cory doesn't turn it into the Grambling/SWAC beat like Isabella did. Tech is the only FBS school Louisiana Gannett doesn't cover like an FBS school. LSU has a full-time beat. ULL has a full-time beat. ULM has a full-time beat. But Gannett splits coverage between the second best program in the state (Tech) with an FCS athletic program that is DI in name only (Grambling).

Please let Gannett know it is unacceptable for them to split Tech's coverage with Grambling, and they should treat Tech just like they do LSU and the ULX twins:
Scott Ferrell, Sports Planning Editor, sferrell@gannett.com
Judi Terzotis, President, jterzotis@theadvertiser.com
Jeff Gauger, Executive Editor, jgauger@gannett.com
Barbara Leader, Editor, bleader@gannett.com

Let's hope Cory is a lot better than the last 3 LSU fans covering Tech and as good or better than Ethan Conley. It's been a while since we've had somebody covering Tech as good as Ethan.

Where did Diaz go to school?

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Where did Diaz go to school?

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Alabama

Isabella covered Tech? Must have accidentally passed through Ruston on his way to Grambling.

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Alabama

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Uh, oh!! (times 2)

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

After Gannett tortured Louisiana Tech fans with 3 consecutive LSU fans covering Tech sports part-time, the good news is we no longer have an LSU fan on the job: https://twitter.com/CoryDiaz_TNS

However, the big disappointment is Gannett is still treating Tech like we aren't a major college by splitting our beat with Grambling. I hope Cory doesn't turn it into the Grambling/SWAC beat like Isabella did. Tech is the only FBS school Louisiana Gannett doesn't cover like an FBS school. LSU has a full-time beat. ULL has a full-time beat. ULM has a full-time beat. But Gannett splits coverage between the second best program in the state (Tech) with an FCS athletic program that is DI in name only (Grambling).

Please let Gannett know it is unacceptable for them to split Tech's coverage with Grambling, and they should treat Tech just like they do LSU and the ULX twins:
Scott Ferrell, Sports Planning Editor, sferrell@gannett.com
Judi Terzotis, President, jterzotis@theadvertiser.com
Jeff Gauger, Executive Editor, jgauger@gannett.com
Barbara Leader, Editor, bleader@gannett.com

Let's hope Cory is a lot better than the last 3 LSU fans covering Tech and as good or better than Ethan Conley. It's been a while since we've had somebody covering Tech as good as Ethan.

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This is a conversation our AD should have had with all these people before this change in personnel. And our president since our AD didn't get the job done.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

After Gannett tortured Louisiana Tech fans with 3 consecutive LSU fans covering Tech sports part-time, the good news is we no longer have an LSU fan on the job: https://twitter.com/CoryDiaz_TNS

However, the big disappointment is Gannett is still treating Tech like we aren't a major college by splitting our beat with Grambling. I hope Cory doesn't turn it into the Grambling/SWAC beat like Isabella did. Tech is the only FBS school Louisiana Gannett doesn't cover like an FBS school. LSU has a full-time beat. ULL has a full-time beat. ULM has a full-time beat. But Gannett splits coverage between the second best program in the state (Tech) with an FCS athletic program that is DI in name only (Grambling).

Please let Gannett know it is unacceptable for them to split Tech's coverage with Grambling, and they should treat Tech just like they do LSU and the ULX twins:
Scott Ferrell, Sports Planning Editor, sferrell@gannett.com
Judi Terzotis, President, jterzotis@theadvertiser.com
Jeff Gauger, Executive Editor, jgauger@gannett.com
Barbara Leader, Editor, bleader@gannett.com

Let's hope Cory is a lot better than the last 3 LSU fans covering Tech and as good or better than Ethan Conley. It's been a while since we've had somebody covering Tech as good as Ethan.

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This is a conversation our AD should have had with all these people before this change in personnel. And our president since our AD didn't get the job done.

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Anyone wonder whether the ULX twins pay for the publicity?

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Anyone wonder whether the ULX twins pay for the publicity?

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Lafayette is the only game in town besides lsu.

nlulm doesn't really get much coverage unless they are trying to play MeTooU with us.

It's silly to continue our business relationship with Gannett/TNS, but I bet we keep sucking up to them.

Here's some "publicity" for ya:

http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2017/...sun-belt-c-usa

At least, there's a poll attached.

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Here's some "publicity" for ya:

http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2017/...sun-belt-c-usa

At least, there's a poll attached.

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We're running away with the voting.

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We're running away with the voting.

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It really isnt fair from an objective standpoint.

ULM is a dumpster fire.
ULL is a dumpster fire but the dumpster has gold-colored paint on it.
Tulane isn't a dumpster fire but is in a conference with moderately high expectations and an almost impossible recruiting area. This is the only other one that deserves consideration just because of the university itself.
Tech is in a great recruiting area, is in an easy conference with some other good teams (easy to go .500), has a long, long history of extended success, it's very easy to win here, etc.

I don't believe that Tech has a long, long history of extended success. Way back in the 70s we had great teams for the division we were in. In the 90s we had a couple of good seasons including beating Alabama twice (but losing to an actual underdog USC). After winning the WAC we bombed for a few years to have one good fair year (8-4) under DD and two good years under Dykes. So now we have three bowl wins in a row (but that's not a long, long history). We have a history of ups and downs and right now we are doing well so we should be the best G5 team in the state. But if we lose HCSH we might plummet again for a couple of years. Our all time record according to Wikipedia (updated?) is 604 wins versus 451 losses. Thats only a 57 % winning record. But let's keep on improving.

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I don't believe that Tech has a long, long history of extended success. Way back in the 70s we had great teams for the division we were in. In the 90s we had a couple of good seasons including beating Alabama twice (but losing to an actual underdog USC). After winning the WAC we bombed for a few years to have one good fair year (8-4) under DD and two good years under Dykes. So now we have three bowl wins in a row (but that's not a long, long history). We have a history of ups and downs and right now we are doing well so we should be the best G5 team in the state. But if we lose HCSH we might plummet again for a couple of years. Our all time record according to Wikipedia (updated?) is 604 wins versus 451 losses. Thats only a 57 % winning record. But let's keep on improving.

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Down years tied directly to Dan Reneau.

HoF Dan Reneau. . . .

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Down years tied directly to Dan Reneau.

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We are 20 years behind where we could've been had it not been for Reneau. That goes for football, men's BB and baseball.

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I don't believe that Tech has a long, long history of extended success. Way back in the 70s we had great teams for the division we were in. In the 90s we had a couple of good seasons including beating Alabama twice (but losing to an actual underdog USC). After winning the WAC we bombed for a few years to have one good fair year (8-4) under DD and two good years under Dykes. So now we have three bowl wins in a row (but that's not a long, long history). We have a history of ups and downs and right now we are doing well so we should be the best G5 team in the state. But if we lose HCSH we might plummet again for a couple of years. Our all time record according to Wikipedia (updated?) is 604 wins versus 451 losses. Thats only a 57 % winning record. But let's keep on improving.

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Compared to those other 3 schools, our down years would be considered successes for them.

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I don't believe that Tech has a long, long history of extended success. Way back in the 70s we had great teams for the division we were in. In the 90s we had a couple of good seasons including beating Alabama twice (but losing to an actual underdog USC). After winning the WAC we bombed for a few years to have one good fair year (8-4) under DD and two good years under Dykes. So now we have three bowl wins in a row (but that's not a long, long history). We have a history of ups and downs and right now we are doing well so we should be the best G5 team in the state. But if we lose HCSH we might plummet again for a couple of years. Our all time record according to Wikipedia (updated?) is 604 wins versus 451 losses. Thats only a 57 % winning record. But let's keep on improving.

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We were in the 1AA Championship Game in the '80s (1984?). I think we have won 25 conference championships in FB. We were in 2 bowl games our first time in the highest college football division. I think we have an overall winning record since returning to what is now the FBS. That is pretty good, especially considering we had to start as an independent. It was a lot tougher to become D1A when Tech did as opposed to becoming FBS today.

57% is fine. 73% is about the highest and 24% the lowest. Much variation in the amount of games played. Some higher percentages havent been around as long.

By my count we are 174-192 since returning to IA in 1988. There were quite a few down years under JR Peace (six losing seasons) and JBIII (four losing seasons) and two out of three with DD. My argument is that until recently we have pretty much been mediocre. Everyone remembers the golden years in the 70s but our record pretty much follows my experience while in school - two winning seasons and two losing seasons including a one win year). Now from 1940 until 1966 (Joe Aillet) we only had four losing seasons.

Now we are head and shoulders over the other G5 schools, but it hasn't always been that way.

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Here's some "publicity" for ya:

http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2017/...sun-belt-c-usa

At least, there's a poll attached.

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Tanner Spearman had a good article. Cyrus Smith did not.

The NewsStar now has a self imposed deadline of 7PM. Therefore any athletic event that ends after that time will not be covered in the printed edition the following day. So does it really matter how or who covers Tech? If you are counting on print instead of digital you will get stale news most of the time. If you prefer digital coverage there are other choices.

I personally got fed up with The NewsStar and its owner Gannett about this and most everything about their USA Today philosophy. I cancelled my subscription after 17 years. For all of my adult life I have always had a daily paper delivered to my house wherever I have lived--no more. I refuse to financially support their current incompetence and liberal political bias.

I hope that enough other readers do likewise and perhaps we can force a change for the better.

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The NewsStar now has a self imposed deadline of 7PM. Therefore any athletic event that ends after that time will not be covered in the printed edition the following day. So does it really matter how or who covers Tech? If you are counting on print instead of digital you will get stale news most of the time. If you prefer digital coverage there are other choices.

I personally got fed up with The NewsStar and its owner Gannett about this and most everything about their USA Today philosophy. I cancelled my subscription after 17 years. For all of my adult life I have always had a daily paper delivered to my house wherever I have lived--no more. I refuse to financially support their current incompetence and liberal political bias.

I hope that enough other readers do likewise and perhaps we can force a change for the better.

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Great post! Our President and AD need to follow this model as well. We are NOT obligated to do business with these people.

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The NewsStar now has a self imposed deadline of 7PM. Therefore any athletic event that ends after that time will not be covered in the printed edition the following day. So does it really matter how or who covers Tech? If you are counting on print instead of digital you will get stale news most of the time. If you prefer digital coverage there are other choices.

I personally got fed up with The NewsStar and its owner Gannett about this and most everything about their USA Today philosophy. I cancelled my subscription after 17 years. For all of my adult life I have always had a daily paper delivered to my house wherever I have lived--no more. I refuse to financially support their current incompetence and liberal political bias.

I hope that enough other readers do likewise and perhaps we can force a change for the better.

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Thanks for the reminder. The early deadline has been going on for about a year now.

Just think. This fall we won't be able to wake up and read about the Friday night high school football games on Saturday, the Saturday night college football games on Sunday morning. I don't believe their will be full length stories on line about the big games or recaps on the less important games.

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Just think. This fall we won't be able to wake up and read about the Friday night high school football games on Saturday, the Saturday night college football games on Sunday morning. I don't believe their will be full length stories on line about the big games or recaps on the less important games.

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FWIW, TNS has not reported on area high school teams (outside of WM or Neville) in the Saturday dead tree addition in many years. They do a horrible job of high school coverage in the online edition. Sunday coverage of local college football has not been consistent in years either. Bottom line: TNS and Gannett in general is made up of lazy liberals who are horrible business peeps.

At 5:50am this morning (Thursday) TNS has still not updated the E-Newspaper from Wednesday. Will my $10 annual subscription ever run out?

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At 5:50am this morning (Thursday) TNS has still not updated the E-Newspaper from Wednesday. Will my $10 annual subscription ever run out?

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Probably not. I have never paid for the Times on line edition. Every now and then I get a reminder that the free subscripton will expire. Just like an old fart I really only look at the front page and read the obits. Reading the obits doesn't seem to count toward the number of free stories.

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At 5:50am this morning (Thursday) TNS has still not updated the E-Newspaper from Wednesday. Will my $10 annual subscription ever run out?

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Probably not, they will either auto-bill or send an invoice when it lapses.

Not impressed by our new News Star beat writer's initial articles.

"Although the media sees a rematch for the conference championship, picking Louisiana Tech to win the West division and WKU to take the East, the three new coaching hires in Kiffin, Butch Davis at FIU and Mike Sanford with the Hilltoppers provides the upcoming season a lot of intrigue and all the collective strength for the deepest conference battle royale.

A certain perception follows programs that compete on the Group of Five level in college football. But athletic directors around Conference USA have made it known to the rest of the country that it’s as serious as ever to win."

Just seems unpolished.

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Not impressed by our new News Star beat writer's initial articles.

"Although the media sees a rematch for the conference championship, picking Louisiana Tech to win the West division and WKU to take the East, the three new coaching hires in Kiffin, Butch Davis at FIU and Mike Sanford with the Hilltoppers provides the upcoming season a lot of intrigue and all the collective strength for the deepest conference battle royale.

A certain perception follows programs that compete on the Group of Five level in college football. But athletic directors around Conference USA have made it known to the rest of the country that it’s as serious as ever to win."

Just seems unpolished.

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He is unpolished. He just graduated from college. When I look back on some of my early writing, I just cringe. Thankfully, I had some good mentors to help bring me along. That's critical. Unfortunately in Gannett world these days, those mentors are long gone. It's become sink or swim. Hopefully, Cory can swim.

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He is unpolished. He just graduated from college. When I look back on some of my early writing, I just cringe. Thankfully, I had some good mentors to help bring me along. That's critical. Unfortunately in Gannett world these days, those mentors are long gone. It's become sink or swim. Hopefully, Cory can swim.

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So . . . yes . . . we are stuck with him. Too bad they couldn't offer a transfer to someone like this: http://www.knoxtntoday.com/big-mike-is-moving-on/

Of course after you read what he was offered at his Gannettzoid newspaper you'd know why he retired.:

From Knoxville:

"Mike Strange has chosen retirement from the News Sentinel over a demotion cooked up by the foreign ownership group, Gannett.
“My role was being redefined as a non-columnist, helping out on football and being responsible for men’s hoops. I told them that 67 is too old to go back to being a beat writer.
“Their idea of helping out on football is shooting video, doing Facebook Live segments and, by the way, writing a little bit. The game story is going away and that is something I always put great stock in doing.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

Substitute the words, but the message remains the same...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

Substitute the words, but the message remains the same...

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That was the very first song/video ever played on MTV when they first launched the network back in 1981. This is the song that got it all started.

http://www.businessinsider.com/video...-on-mtv-2015-7

Yes it was...

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That was the very first song/video ever played on MTV when they first launched the network back in 1981. This is the song that got it all started.

http://www.businessinsider.com/video...-on-mtv-2015-7

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Also features popular and ubiquitous movie score composer Hans Zimmer.

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That was the very first song/video ever played on MTV when they first launched the network back in 1981. This is the song that got it all started.

http://www.businessinsider.com/video...-on-mtv-2015-7

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Yea...I remember hearing about this new "MTV" as a senior in high school, First watched it as freshman at La Tech. The first time I was able to watch, I spent several hours watching it in the TV room, Landslide with Stevie Nicks was the first video I watched. I was definitely country come to town!

Okay. 1st day after first practice. New writer.

Same o' same o'

Disappointed.

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Okay. 1st day after first practice. New writer.

Same o' same o'

Disappointed.

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Our peeps will continue to suck up to a bunch we don't need at Gannett.

Simply put. I can remember when writing 6 stories for publication was expected.

Publication! Not posted online.

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Simply put. I can remember when writing 6 stories for publication was expected.

Publication! Not posted online.

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Yeah, it's all about saving the planet with less paper usage now...btw, do they still throw those stupid ad filled weeklys along with the Delta Style crap? No dead trees needed to print those I suppose.

Some would tell us we don't believe in Science since we love the (real) paper industry and dead pine trees more than we love the planet.:D

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Okay. 1st day after first practice. New writer.

Same o' same o'

Disappointed.

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Today's Times: NWST is the sports front feature, LSU sidebar, that Grambling article below the fold...

Tech is nowhere to be found in The Times since last THURSDAY after the media tour of the press box except for a little ad Tech took out on Sunday. Not a single Tech article or even press release has been published in The Times in the last 5 days as if Tech isn't even having a fall camp!

There are multiple articles about each of LSU, NWST, and Grambling over that time period.

I'm with Pawdawg on this now. Time to cut all ties to Gannett. Our coverage is worse than pathetic. It's insulting.

I found this online from two days ago:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story...eel/524213001/

But I've quit going to their website because I don't think we're getting a fair shake from them. Personally I think we are about to begin an extraordinarily good season. So they may (MAY) jump on the bandwagon as things start to evolve. If they ever give Tech the coverage they ought to, I would reconsider subscribing online. But there's going to have to be consistency.

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I found this online from two days ago:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story...eel/524213001/

But I've quit going to their website because I don't think we're getting a fair shake from them. Personally I think we are about to begin an extraordinarily good season. So they may (MAY) jump on the bandwagon as things start to evolve. If they ever give Tech the coverage they ought to, I would reconsider subscribing online. But there's going to have to be consistency.

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That online article was never published in the newspaper. It was also a hard to find online because it was not published online on The Times' "Right Now" sidebar, which is the easiest place to find news.

That TNS article was just linked to The Times' headlines section as you can see the URL is the same as TNS except for the domain name. Whenever they do that, the article rarely if ever is published on the "Right Now" sidebar with all the news. The good news is that when they do that, Ferrell/Lang do not butcher the article.

And our Gannett coverage did not change for the better when we made the Top 25 run in 2012. I've never seen any evidence that these Gannett hacks will ever jump on the Tech bandwagon.

As it stands right now, Gannett sucks as far as I'm concerned.

Stop buying the paper. Stop paying for subscriptions. If you advertise with them, stop advertising in the paper. And for goodness sakes STOP linking the paper. They are getting your clicks (ad money) because you go to see what they wrote or didn't write. If you have to link them to talk about how bad they are at least use a do not track proxy first.

Money is the only thing that works with Gannett.

Decent write up from Marq Mitcham. He has previews of all the CUSA teams.

http://www.bastropenterprise.com/spo...werful-offense

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Decent write up from Marq Mitcham. He has previews of all the CUSA teams.

http://www.bastropenterprise.com/spo...werful-offense

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That's a great looking Sports page.

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Yeah, it's all about saving the planet with less paper usage now...btw, do they still throw those stupid ad filled weeklys along with the Delta Style crap? No dead trees needed to print those I suppose.

Some would tell us we don't believe in Science since we love the (real) paper industry and dead pine trees more than we love the planet.:D

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Haha. I'm a dead-tree guy myself, but this move away from the daily paper has nothing to do with saving the planet. It has everything to do with saving a few dollars. Printing a newspaper is costly. VERY costly. I was shocked how expensive it is. Gannett has been incredibly short-sighted and made some absolutely maddening, bone-headed decisions in the name of saving a few bucks (and ultimately losing a whole lot more in the long run).

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Haha. I'm a dead-tree guy myself, but this move away from the daily paper has nothing to do with saving the planet. It has everything to do with saving a few dollars. Printing a newspaper is costly. VERY costly. I was shocked how expensive it is. Gannett has been incredibly short-sighted and made some absolutely maddening, bone-headed decisions in the name of saving a few bucks (and ultimately losing a whole lot more in the long run).

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Okay. I started back working out a little bit today and I'm tired . . . . can you translate the above for me?

Louisiana Tech Held Hostage -- Day 2!

And not a word inside sports either.

Now I'm thinking the fix is really in.


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Louisiana Tech Held Hostage -- Day 2!

And not a word inside sports either.

Now I'm thinking the fix is really in.


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Yet, our money is spent on page one. How much did we have to give TNS in return for this ad?

Are we REALLY using the #everloyalbe thing again?

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Marq is truly one of the best. He is pretty much the reason our little paper stays afloat here in Morehouse Parish.

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Marq is truly one of the best. He is pretty much the reason our little paper stays afloat here in Morehouse Parish.

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We should be using Bastrop, Ruston, along with other small daily and weekly papers like The Ouachita Citizen instead of TNS. We'd get MUCH better coverage.

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Louisiana Tech Held Hostage -- Day 2!

And not a word inside sports either.

Now I'm thinking the fix is really in.


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Today marks the 6th consecutive day without any Tech coverage in The Times. And another NWST article was published in The Times today.

Tech should cancel all Gannett advertising immediately.

Our part-time beat writer thought Mitchell Robinson was a football player... :rolleyes4:

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Today marks the 6th consecutive day without any Tech coverage in The Times. And another NWST article was published in The Times today.

Tech should cancel all Gannett advertising immediately.

Our part-time beat writer thought Mitchell Robinson be was a football player... :rolleyes4:

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Geeez....

We were going after Mitchell Robinson as an inside receiver / defensive end. He runs a 4.9 and is expected to be an excellent special teams player.

O.K., Just where exactly is a Bulldog Fan suppose to get any info this Fall?
So far, little has been printed and if I remember last year LaTech Sports only had a few articles for the entire Fall camp! It wasn't so long ago that all articles printed in the various papers were posted on here, are their just none being printed to post?
Although I am here in South Florida, I can get KNBB(ESPN97.7) on my Alexa machine... But, when do they talk Bulldog Football on there?

Ouachita Citizen came in mail today. It had the first printed camp story of the week. A weekly beat a daily newspaper. . . .

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Ouachita Citizen came in mail today. It had the first printed camp story of the week. A weekly beat a daily newspaper. . . .

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Jerry Byrd's magazine published only 5 times a year also beat the daily Times... http://footballcountrymag.com/skip-h...pen-2017-camp/

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Jerry Byrd's magazine published only 5 times a year also beat the daily Times... http://footballcountrymag.com/skip-h...pen-2017-camp/

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Nice info, Thanks for sharing!

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Louisiana Tech Held Hostage -- Day 2!

And not a word inside sports either.

Now I'm thinking the fix is really in.

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Louisiana Tech football Held Hostage - Day 3

3-4 paragraphs today at the end of a Scott Ferrell story about NCAA's elimination of 2-a-day workouts. Skip quotes came from a press release prior to opening practice.

Disappointed!

If Gannett is going to print a newspaper while forcing everyone to also go to their websites, then space allocation should be firm and fair.

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Jerry Byrd's magazine published only 5 times a year also beat the daily Times... http://footballcountrymag.com/skip-h...pen-2017-camp/

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Does anybody know where Jack Abraham transferred to? Just curious.

We better hope J'Mar Smith can stay healthy for 13 regular season games (including CUSA CG). Elijah Walker will be a true freshman, and Westin Elliot threw more interceptions than TD passes last year at a community college. I would say we are woefully unprepared at backup QB.

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Louisiana Tech football Held Hostage - Day 3

3-4 paragraphs today at the end of a Scott Ferrell story about NCAA's elimination of 2-a-day workouts. Skip quotes came from a press release prior to opening practice.

Disappointed!

If Gannett is going to print a newspaper while forcing everyone to also go to their websites, then space allocation should be firm and fair.

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Kinda makes you wonder why we spent $20M on a new "pressbox". We apparently have no press. :laugh:

Some things never change. North Louisiana continues to be its' own worst enemy. :icon_roll:

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Louisiana Tech football Held Hostage - Day 3

3-4 paragraphs today at the end of a Scott Ferrell story about NCAA's elimination of 2-a-day workouts. Skip quotes came from a press release prior to opening practice.

Disappointed!

If Gannett is going to print a newspaper while forcing everyone to also go to their websites, then space allocation should be firm and fair.

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Let's hope this doesn't turn out to be like Rush Limbaugh during the Clinton administration.

Please contact the news star sport department online to ask about coverage like I did this morning. Just a few inquiries might make a huge difference.

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Does anybody know where Jack Abraham transferred to? Just curious.

We better hope J'Mar Smith can stay healthy for 13 regular season games (including CUSA CG). Elijah Walker will be a true freshman, and Westin Elliot threw more interceptions than TD passes last year at a community college. I would say we are woefully unprepared at backup QB.

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Northwest Mississippi Community College

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Does anybody know where Jack Abraham transferred to? Just curious.

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Per his Twitter he went to Northwest CC Rangers in Senatobia, MS
Same league as EMCC, Netflix Last Chance U.

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Tech Hostage Day 7 for The Times. That's a full week without a single Tech article in the Shreveport Gannett paper.

More LSU and NWST today.

But Tech's SID shares half of the blame because all they've written is 1 press release on the team this past week.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

Tech Hostage Day 7 for The Times. That's a full week without a single Tech article in the Shreveport Gannett paper.

More LSU and NWST today.

But Tech's SID shares half of the blame because all they've written is 1 press release on the Dawgs reporting to camp.

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Do you think it is like the question of "is it the chicken or the egg"? Would Gannett include us more if we had more press releases?

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Originally Posted by BearDawg137

Do you think it is like the question of "is it the chicken or the egg"? Would Gannett include us more if we had more press releases?

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That's what most of the NWST articles in The Times are like today's was... an article written by NWST's SID. The Times can't print a Tech press release if Tech doesn't send them one to print (by their 7 PM deadline :rolleyes4:).

However, Tech deserves better treatment than that. Between the two North Louisiana Gannett newspapers, Tech should have a full-time beat writer publishing at least one article per day.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

That's what most of the NWST articles in The Times are like today's was... an article written by NWST's SID. The Times can't print a Tech press release if Tech doesn't send them one to print (by their 7 PM deadline :rolleyes4:).

However, Tech deserves better treatment than that. Between the two North Louisiana Gannett newspapers, Tech should have a full-time beat writer publishing at least one article per day.

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If that's the case, then we should both be complaining directly to Gannett, and our SID...

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Originally Posted by BearDawg137

If that's the case, then we should both be complaining directly to Gannett, and our SID...

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Did the NWState articles have any news on the Bulldogs? Sure would love to find something out on Fall Camp here!

Hostage Update: Day 8 without a single Tech article in The Times.

And more LSU and NWST articles in today's paper...

Chris from Nashville chimes in on the Subject!!!

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Chris Nichols‏

Replying to @CoryDiaz_TNS @LATechFB

Maybe we can get some original content on @LATechFB soon?

2:25 PM - 3 Aug 2017 from Nashville, TN

• https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...uZ8_bigger.jpgCory Dia20 hours agoMore
  
  Replying to @chrisnichols89 @LATechFB
  Definitely man. Please bear with me this week, we've been all hands on deck on our massive annual high school preview book. Apologies
  

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we've been all hands on deck on our massive annual high school preview book.

Funny...Translation: We've been busy securing ads from local car dealers, banks, and injury attorneys to pay for the high school preview "book".

Our SID is working on updating the roster. It should be updated in 3 more weeks, and then we'll get an article about the team.

I know the Gannett papers are giving us very little coverage, but have you looked at the Official Athletic Web Site recently. There are no news worthy articles there that have not bee in the papers (at least the digital issue), so why should the Times/Morning News have any?

I could say the same for the Official Tech Web Site. There hasn't been a new article there for months.

I don't know why we do this to ourselves.

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Originally Posted by DONW

Our SID is working on updating the roster. It should be updated in 3 more weeks, and then we'll get an article about the team.

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That's not true. I've told you the our COYHCSH is holding up the release of the roster. Send him an email. He won't lie about it.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

That's not true. I've told you the our COYHCSH is holding up the release of the roster. Send him an email. He won't lie about it.

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Would you please repost his reasoning in not releasing it?

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Originally Posted by BearDawg137

Would you please repost his reasoning in not releasing it?

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He is busy.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

That's not true. I've told you the our COYHCSH is holding up the release of the roster. Send him an email. He won't lie about it.

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So you're saying we're not going to get an updated roster? I emailed our AD 2 years ago and it was updated the next day. I'm just going to see how long it takes them to get it done this time. I bet it doesn't get done before the first game.

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That's not true. I've told you the our COYHCSH is holding up the release of the roster. Send him an email. He won't lie about it.

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He is busy.

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I'm not really sure why Skip needs to be in charge of this thing. I'd believe Hester could easily update the heights and weights. Should we assume Skip told Hester not to both, Hester is "busy", or our SID is too lazy?

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I'm not really sure why Skip needs to be in charge of this thing. I'd believe Hester could easily update the heights and weights. Should we assume Skip told Hester not to both, Hester is "busy", or our SID is too lazy?

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Hester is not the operations manager. When COYHCSH tells him to release it he will.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Hester is not the operations manager. When COYHCSH tells him to release it he will.

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Paw has COYHCSHDS

Hostage Update: Day 9 without a single Tech article in The Times.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

Hostage Update: Day 9 without a single Tech article in The Times.

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I'm sure the Times will want press passes to the MS State game.

Just say no.

Ask if he has written and published a single word about TECH this year? If the answer is no, then no pass.

Hostage Update: Day 10 without a single Tech article in The Times.

Looking at the Shreve-Times twitter acct, the only thing they love tweeting about is LSU regarding college sports.

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Would love to sub to your paper but why is there no Louisiana Tech coverage???

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I should start a script for this...

Hostage Update: Day 11 without a single Tech article in The Times.

Any talk on S'Port radio?

We have Dietrich talking us up over here. He shows some love to nlulm and that's understandable, but he limits his lsu talk.

Gannett is HORRIBLE. Please stop the "In Kind" trade out with them. We don't need them!

100.7 The Ticket with Ben Mintz is pretty good about info on Tech. They have Bleed Tech Blue, and a couple others on at least once a week to talk Tech as well as regular promos for carrying the games during the season. You should listen if you get a chance.

http://www.theticket1007.com/

Ben has been good to us from what I've heard of him. Glad he gives us some love in S'Port.

How 'bout Fletcher?

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Ben has been good to us from what I've heard of him. Glad he gives us some love in S'Port.

How 'bout Fletcher?

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He had a great interview with Luke recently, but other than that, the Fletcher Show doesn't talk Tech anymore. They claim to be LSU's flagship station. Ever since NWST started sponsoring the show, Tech talk has been slim to none.

JJ and Bonzai hate LSU, but they don't talk Tech either.

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He had a great interview with Luke recently, but other than that, the Fletcher Show doesn't talk Tech anymore. They claim to be LSU's flagship station. Ever since NWST started sponsoring the show, Tech talk has been slim to none.

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I always figured he was a turd just like Ferrell and Lang.

Ben mintz does a great job giving tech tons of love on the air. He has become a Tech fan himself.

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Originally Posted by Dixonfor6

Ben mintz does a great job giving tech tons of love on the air. He has become a Tech fan himself.

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what station and time would someone catch his show??

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Originally Posted by BlindDog

what station and time would someone catch his show??

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100.7 FM in Shreveport from 3-6 PM CT
http://www.theticket1007.com/