Musketeer Madness

Ok, I'll just start a new thread for placement of any pertinent News about the Big East.

Here's the first piece from the Omaha World Herald. Looks like Big East games every night of the week for max exposure, plus there could be games farmed out to ESPN & others.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130402/B ... final-four

Anyone notice that the Creighton area newspapers have way more articles about the new big east than we do here in cincinnati? I wonder why, but my only guess would be the Redlegs and the Bengals. Maybe Shannon should step her game up.

I would agree, X. There's not as much competing sports news in the Creighton area. As you might imagine, the "new" BE got about one day's worth of coverage here in Chicago, even with DePaul and Marquette, but with all the Blackhawks/Bulls/Cubs/Sox/Bears coverage, the BE is far, far down the list.

Northwestern's gotten a fair amount of press with the Chris Collins' hiring, and today's Sun-Times had an article about what Illinois will look like next year, but CBB is not a hot topic here in town right now.

X-Marks the Top wrote:Anyone notice that the Creighton area newspapers have way more articles about the new big east than we do here in cincinnati? I wonder why, but my only guess would be the Redlegs and the Bengals. Maybe Shannon should step her game up.

Other than Nebraska football, and that is in Lincoln, there is no big public competing school in Omaha like the lapdog hacks like to kow-tow to in Cincinnati.

Plus, the Enquirer has many staffers and writers with ties to UC. X has often been the little sister to big mighty UC. Let's face it, our good news here is directly inverse to UC's bad news. Possibly another reason why it is being placed on the back burner. Nothing will ever change around here. Once the Reds start, not many media outlets will place much more than a timid whisper about any other sport. (except the Bungals at draft time) We X fans need to hope that this off season is productive and the new Big East turns out to be all that and a bag of chips next year - which should then force the local biased media to give us some props. In other words, like many perks in this world, we shall have to earn it....

There has not been much coverage recently here in Indy either. IU/Purdue/Pacers/Colts/Indy 500 and even ND. Not much ink left over for the Big East.

There's a lot of planning yet to go in the BigEast Conference, so much is undone, much is to be determined, much is to be written about. When the BE is activated this summer we'll be getting more info and it will receive headlines.

Re Omaha:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Omaha,_Nebraska
I was not too far from there last summer and the College world Series was the biggest thing in town with the Stony Brook Seawolves the darling of the media.

Been to Omaha plenty. Nice Riverboat Casinos in Council Bluffs.

Good enough town. They shot the Jack Nicholson move "About Schmidt" there.

X-Marks the Top wrote:Anyone notice that the Creighton area newspapers have way more articles about the new big east than we do here in cincinnati? I wonder why, but my only guess would be the Redlegs and the Bengals. Maybe Shannon should step her game up.

The Omaha newspaper probably has a beat writer that has developed more relationships, and puts a little more in to covering Creighton than we have. If we still had Dustin Dow as our beat writer, there probably would be a lot more written on Xavier and the Big East.