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Deadspin wrote:NDSU Effectively Bans Media From Covering Bison Sports Unless They Paid For Rights

Timothy Burke
Saturday 1:30pm

North Dakota State is cutting off outlets from covering Bison athletics unless they’ve paid a media rights ransom, according to local Fargo newspaper The Forum.

University administrators, apparently feeling they hadn’t yet gotten rich enough off unpaid student-athlete labor, are going so far as to ban blogging during games from non-partner media members. Also banned? Covering press conferences live, hosting any live programs from NDSU’s campus, or interviewing coaches.

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Did anyone hear about this? Genius! Sounds like an idea you would hear from a SMGT class

jack_sparrow81 wrote:

Deadspin wrote:NDSU Effectively Bans Media From Covering Bison Sports Unless They Paid For Rights

Timothy Burke
Saturday 1:30pm

North Dakota State is cutting off outlets from covering Bison athletics unless they’ve paid a media rights ransom, according to local Fargo newspaper The Forum.

University administrators, apparently feeling they hadn’t yet gotten rich enough off unpaid student-athlete labor, are going so far as to ban blogging during games from non-partner media members. Also banned? Covering press conferences live, hosting any live programs from NDSU’s campus, or interviewing coaches.

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Did anyone hear about this? Genius! Sounds like an idea you would hear from a SMGT class

Hey now!

Haha I was waiting for you take the bait. I heard this on a Tampa station this morning and figured this would've been a benefit to us during this past year's football season. One of my questions though with this is lets say a media member pays the specific amount to interview an individual player. Do the coaches have a say in making that player available for the interview?

I saw this going around the other day. It's typical NDSU thinking they're more important than they are.

jack_sparrow81 wrote:Haha I was waiting for you take the bait. I heard this on a Tampa station this morning and figured this would've been a benefit to us during this past year's football season. One of my questions though with this is lets say a media member pays the specific amount to interview an individual player. Do the coaches have a say in making that player available for the interview?

Ha. I took nothing! I'm not even sure this is a good idea. I can see the thinking but not sure it even makes sense Yes NDak doesn't have a lot of sports options but it also doesn't have a lot of deep pockets to interview players. Considering TV contracts are getting smaller and ESPN is pinching pennies I don't see how this will work. But I wasn't in on the discussion. I'm sure every other school in America will take a look at it though

The NCAA should ban NDS from post season. Any school should be happy media is covering their program. making media pay might be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of, pertaining to coverage.

ballcoach15 wrote:The NCAA should ban NDS from post season. Any school should be happy media is covering their program. making media pay might be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of, pertaining to coverage.

I love how ballcoach frequently appoints the NCAA as his personal Gestapo to step in and right the most egregious of wrongs (in other words, anything he doesn't like)

Pretty arrogant stuff from NDSU though I wonder how their guy managed to keep a straight face when he said everybody is doing it

The only thing that surprises me is that Liberty didn't think of it first.

NDSU president rescinds media ban

http://deadsp.in/aTVdoZ8

Flames Nation News wrote:NDSU president rescinds media ban

http://deadsp.in/aTVdoZ8

The AD falls on his sword and the President proceeds to vigorously twist it

The NCAA is the worst run organization in sports.

ballcoach15 wrote:The NCAA is the worst run organization in sports.

if you really believe that, I would think you would want them to have less power, not more, but every time you don't like something, you call on the NCAA to fix it

ballcoach15 wrote:The NCAA is the worst run organization in sports.

It's the worst run organization in sports and you want it to ban a team from the postseason when they didn't break any NCAA rules?

Media in the state of North Dakota is equivalent to 5 blue bottle flies on a fresh pile of manure. In other words, insignificant.