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Post by rc on Feb 17, 2023 11:25:10 GMT -6
OK... Last season ACU won the WAC men's golf and tennis titles and played in the finals of baseball and basketball. But I have yet to see a story about this first year's success. It seems to me like a remarkable first year in the WAC. We had other good performances and a T&F woman's athlete of the year. Is this lack of acknowledgment because we don't have a swim or diving team and no beach volleyball? Just kidding. Still, the season seems pretty remarkable to me.
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Post by archsimon on Feb 19, 2023 8:21:22 GMT -6
There is a podcast from last June, but you're right I don't remember there being a story either. Anything in the ACU Today? acusports.com/podcasts |
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Post by rc on Feb 19, 2023 12:37:28 GMT -6
There is a podcast from last June, but you're right I don't remember there being a story either. Anything in the ACU Today? acusports.com/podcastsThanks for the reference, I had not heard that one! |
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Post by Cap'n Cattitude on Feb 20, 2023 22:59:21 GMT -6
One thing that may help you understand is that there was not an SID for much of the spring and all summer. Lots more info on the website, at least, this fall.
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Post by crazycat on Feb 21, 2023 9:38:43 GMT -6
There are multiple stories on the men's golf and tennis teams, and the track and field women's athlete of the year, on acusports.com from May and June. There are also stories included in the sports section of of ACU Today Spring/ Summer 2022 on pages 71 and 74-76. Granted these are not full length feature stories but stories were done.
Also we did have an SID during the spring and summer. Jordan did not leave until the fall.
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Post by rc on Feb 21, 2023 11:07:48 GMT -6
There are multiple stories on the men's golf and tennis teams, and the track and field women's athlete of the year, on acusports.com from May and June. There are also stories included in the sports section of of ACU Today Spring/ Summer 2022 on pages 71 and 74-76. Granted these are not full length feature stories but stories were done. Also we did have an SID during the spring and summer. Jordan did not leave until the fall. I was wondering more about WAC produced stories and outside newspapers. It seemed to me that the new members of the WAC did a bang up job in their initiation to the WAC. If I were the WAC, I would be touting the accomplishments of the expanded conference and the successful return of football. ACU's first year was pretty remarkable it seems to me. ACU produces a lot of information but it is not widely shared. Also, when we lose, the stories tend to focus on strange things. When we lose, that should be the headline, not that an ACU athlete scored a point or played well. I would put that in the narrative. |
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Post by archsimon on Feb 21, 2023 16:59:42 GMT -6
RC - I'm sure you know that's the unfortunate trend on most college athletic sites and pro team pages, to find the silver lining in every defeat. I link it - fair or not - to the 'everyone gets a trophy culture' entrenched in athletics.
No one wants to be called a loser, and no coach wants to see their recruiting efforts hampered by a series of negative headlines. But we parents and our recruits are perfectly capable of peeking behind the curtain to see what's really up (the softball team's ERA for starters).
It stink too that in Abilene there's nowhere else to go but ACUSports to get news on the Wildcats. The local paper is a walking corpse, and the TV web pages reprint the pillow-soft ACU stories.
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