Just Curious - Why Doesn't BSD cover WCBB?

but we’ve always been relevant in WCBB and PSU was for most of the sports history
Now it appears the new coach has them being relevant again.

So that would not answer the question why the sport get’s no coverage here

Lady LIons up by 7 with 7 Min left in the first half

Thats like saying…. hey Tennessee…. why don’t you have coverage of your wrestling team?

There is some minimal coverage of the ‘lesser’ sports like vollyball but they do cover the softball team on a regular basis. And of course we don’t have hockey or wrestling that seem to be a big deal here.

That makes sense to me – thanks for the answer.

because a loss by tOSU would likely improve The Lady Vols NCAA seeding

We can’t cover everything, all the time. If you guys want to talk about something we’re not covering, use the FanPosts. It’s not that we don’t care about the Lions. It’s simply that we’re already stretched kinda thin. And what Chris said below re: interest vs. effort.

success will breed more interest and the Lady Lions are having some success now
so maybe the effort to response equation will start to shift as that continues

Winning the B1G will be a good start I think

I honestly have much more interest in our womens team than I do the mens. I did go a high school where our boys team was always terrible and the girls usually made it to the quarters or semis in the state tourney, this could explain my bias. I also don’t particularly like basketball all that much so my interest level wouldn’t be terribly high even if our mens program was elite.

Still alot of game to play, OSU is still a good team, so can make a run here. If green gets into more foul trouble we will have a problem, but she has been playing well so far tongiht. Completely owning the paint on both ends.

Don’t think they were expecting that from us tonight, those first like 10 minutes they were out of whack. Hopefully we can keep up the pressure on them.

Please elaborate.

4 fouls on Stokes for tOSU now

That no one has posted that one photo of the female fencers from a few years ago.

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well at least the in game match thingy games get comments

Except for the volleyball, I think the women’s gained more attention, then gave some to the men. I mean right now our men;s team is on a tear, beating 2 top 5 teams already. But how many know about that on this site or elsewhere in Nittany Nation? But if the women did that, everyone would hear that, since they are even more awesome.

while we were students. Granted we got to watch The Team for four years and saw 3 NCs… but it was still more exciting to watch the women than the men play.

Just one thing, though. Can you at least start an open thread for these games? There doesn’t have to be a writeup for it at all, just something to remind people that there is a game on.

and all things are relative.
The women may be vertically challenged and not as airborne as the men
but they do have skills and typically play pretty good fundamental basketball

Enjoyment is in the eye and mind of the beholder and the ladies put in the same practice and effort
and they do it without much future in financial reward as student athletes that graduate and do honor to their alma maters. – That’s enough to deserve support

I mean, PSU has more NCAA national titles over the last decade than any other BigTen school, but who would know

Mike’s written a few WBB posts in the past, and they get next to no comments. That’s a sign that the readers don’t give a damn, and we’re not going to spend our time (we have jobs and families and such) on things you guys don’t care about.

But if someone wants to pick up the torch and be the unofficial WBB writer (or any other sport) in the Fanposts, we’ll do what we can to promote it.

is the ability to create and online fanbase that watches the games while sharing the experience online in a game thread.
I quit attending games at TBA 3 years ago because the cost of parking, tickets, time, refreshments, comfort, cold, no smoking areas, and other distractions made it more enjoyable to sit on my couch in front of a 60 inch screen and be on top of the action while conversing with fellow fans online.

There are 4 sites Rivals, Scout, SB Nation, and a rogue site called OuterMonVOLia that feature game threads during Lady Vol games. These were developed over time.
PSU WCBB fans can likely be found spread out across the country and with ESPN 3 or other streaming sites it’s likely that most games can be viewed in real time via the net even if they are not broadcast nationally on television.

this makes the size of the community that attends the games less relevant to the interest that can be developed for an online community of fans who incur no additional cost or effort for viewing a game and commenting in real time as we did in this thread.

It would likely take some time – a few years perhaps – to build up enough of a following to make it a typical game day experience but the sport does have fans and they can be attracted to that kind of effort. BSD seems to be far more successful at attracting visits than Rocky Top Talk. This is a very popular site when certain fanposts can garner 4 or 5 hundred responses.

To me the effort is fairly minimal. A short main page blurb about the upcoming game posted in the AM to remind fans. A game thread set up for each game and a wrap up post following the game. None of this has to require much time or effort. Quote and link the student newspaper or local State College sports page. Post an image of the stats and add a sentence or two about a key player.

A typical game thread on Rocky Top Talk like this for the UT vs UK game draws around 200 comments in competition with The SUmmiTT on Scout that has a long history of covering the Lady Vols with some 205 thousand posts on 22 thousand topics over the past few years. It takes some time to build a following but given the recent success of your WCBB team it would seem that this would be a good time to start with the B1G Championship.

but I had no inkling that it was going on until she got fired. I wasn’t a huge fan of WBB, but I did attend some games,

The women have always been much better comparatively. But like it or not, men’s basketball is simply more popular and State College was no exception. That’s not to say that the women’s team did not have a decent following, and have some pretty anticipated games at both Rec Hall and the BJC. But it was always more of a function of everybody has to show up to support the women for this one big game. I don’t think that the women ever drew better than the men, in fact, I think the women probably are hurt attendance wise by the men sucking, because that’s where they would hit their promotions the hardest to get people out to their games.