Softball coverage tough e-mail

[j2d2]

I sent a really tough e-mail to the athletic department about softball coverage when not even an article on the Arkansas double header appeared on Sooner Sports. Kenny Mossman took (quite rightly) umbrage and invited me to call him. My e-mail didnt get specific enough and painted with too broad a brush. BUT he is under the impression that there are not very many softball fans citing other coverage by Sooner Sports some time ago that didnt draw many watchers. My point was that that was then and this is now. Cover it and they will come(chicken and egg problem). We also disagreed that non-conference games are not covered by anybody. I replied that our team has earned the coverage and we would be ahead of the rest if we did. I didnt make any headway.
Someone else needs to take up the cudgel. They just dont know how many fans are our there(here).

 

[scrybe]

I sent a really tough e-mail to the athletic department about softball coverage when not even an article on the Arkansas double header appeared on Sooner Sports. Kenny Mossman took (quite rightly) umbrage and invited me to call him. My e-mail didnt get specific enough and painted with too broad a brush. BUT he is under the impression that there are not very many softball fans citing other coverage by Sooner Sports some time ago that didnt draw many watchers. My point was that that was then and this is now. Cover it and they will come(chicken and egg problem). We also disagreed that non-conference games are not covered by anybody. I replied that our team has earned the coverage and we would be ahead of the rest if we did. I didnt make any headway.
Someone else needs to take up the cudgel. They just dont know how many fans are our there(here).

LOL. His umbrage probably reflects a guilty conscience.

Good for you, j2d2. I'll try to let them know how I feel too.

 

[sybarite]

I sent an email.

 

[womenssports]

LOL. His umbrage probably reflects a guilty conscience.

Good for you, j2d2. I'll try to let them know how I feel too.

I have communicated with him a few times in the past and I think it is ego, not a guilty conscience. Not saying he is a bad guy, but doesn't like being questioned about the way he does his job. Feel many people in college athletics get there and then it is their own little world and they don't get questioned. I feel he could do a much better job, that the entire sports department could improve in some ways, but then what business, government entity, individual couldn't.

BUT main point is people come because it is promoted, like anything else, being bought and sold. Of course, if it is a sport and they are not winning then that hurts BUT not the case here. AND with softball returning to the 2020 olympics, it is even more of boon for them to promote it. We should have some players on that team and that puts the University in the spotlight, not just softball.

 

[sybarite]

It may be ego. His response to me was something to the effect that he had no idea where I got the idea that they didn't think there was fan support. He knows how much fan support there is.

 

[j2d2]

I think if he knew how much fan support there actually is he would be astonished. i think he got the idea from the lack of viewers on some coverage that might not have been softball(? it wasnt clear to me just which sport he was talking about.) some time ago. I'll bet it wasnt much publicised and quickly dropped before support could be built. I like Kenny but he's wrong here and not particularly open minded.

If more of you e-mailed and let him know that there are a lot of fans interested in softball and want more coverage it might begin to sink in(someday).