The lead story above the fold in today' Tennessean is about the $EC media days coming to Nashville: "SEC Media Days coming to Nashville in 2021" written by MT grad and former MT beat writer at the DNJ Adam Sparks. I don't consider sports news "hard" news and wish sports would be kept to the sports pages but am happy good guy Sparks still has a job in the dying industry.
But I call your attention to the Joe Rexrode article in the sports pages: "Media Days would be lost in Nashville". An excerpt:
"We've grown past an event like this really mattering. It might have moved the needle in 2010, but not anymore."
He went on to list some of the recent and upcoming "big-time" events in Nashville to emphasize that hosting $EC media days has become irrelevant.
Is it any wonder that G-5 FB and a %$&-major athletic program can't "move the needle" in the mid-state. The media, the casual sports fan, and even MT students and alumni could not care less about the product when all anyone, including the media, talks and writes about is not MT. (not that MT is the only area program left out).
But I call your attention to the Joe Rexrode article in the sports pages: "Media Days would be lost in Nashville". An excerpt:
"We've grown past an event like this really mattering. It might have moved the needle in 2010, but not anymore."
He went on to list some of the recent and upcoming "big-time" events in Nashville to emphasize that hosting $EC media days has become irrelevant.
Is it any wonder that G-5 FB and a %$&-major athletic program can't "move the needle" in the mid-state. The media, the casual sports fan, and even MT students and alumni could not care less about the product when all anyone, including the media, talks and writes about is not MT. (not that MT is the only area program left out).