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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5341641, member: 628"] I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I suspect most on this board either live in the northeast or have roots here. The northeast has always been pro sports-centric and been known for the intensity of the media coverage of those sports. Very little is off limits. Reporters make their bones by breaking stories of contract disputes, player dissention, locker room conflict, coaching malfeasance, ownership neglect, and the like. College sports has long been handled differently. There have been far less stories about dissention, conflict, etc. In fact, those are the things that have been the domain of message board "insiders". Whispers about player-coach conflicts. Confidential messages about bad behavior. Private whispers about NIL budgets. Sure, there's been the occasional expose about probation-related things. But the day-to-day info we see regularly reported about pro sports is largely non-existent when it comes to college. And I kinda understood that. Ultimately, college athletes were students whose only renumeration was a scholarship and some small stipends. Why should they have the dirty laundry of their team exposed? However, things have changed dramatically. College athletes, particularly football and men's basketball players, are professionals. There's no "semi" about it. For all intents and purposes, they are compensated for their athletic prowess. They have free agency and chose their destinations largely by pay level. So, given this change, why does it seem that the media is still operating under the old model? I've been thinking about people's references to last year's "misfits" and "malcontents" on the SU hoops team. Plus all those vague suggestions about our NIL spending, or lack there of. Needless to say, if that was the Knicks or Celtics or 76ers we'd have seen a ton of reporting about those issues. And yet I don't recall much of anything actually being reported about SU's situation. Just the aforementioned whispers and private threads by insiders close to the program. Is it time for the college sports media to treat their subjects and teams like the professionals they really are? Curious what people think. [/QUOTE]

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