TJ and Randy

I’m glad MBB official twitter shared that interaction lmao. Randy got salty so fast. Yeah…Otz makes that salary AND can make/take a joke.

Hadn't caught that and Randy's question comes through clearer for me. The conference make up?

I wish TJ would have said 'A basketball season for anyone takes it's ******* toll, Randy'.

 
I looked up and last year the DMR was under 40k Sunday subscriptions. That is less than a 1/3 just 4 years earlier.
I make the mistake of picking up a Sunday Register about once a yr, The worst part of it is all the articles are cut and pasted from USA Today very little original reporting. I could safely argue the local paper has more local written articles percentage wise than the DMR
 
I make the mistake of picking up a Sunday Register about once a yr, The worst part of it is all the articles are cut and pasted from USA Today very little original reporting. I could safely argue the local paper has more local written articles percentage wise than the DMR
I did a google search of "is print media important".

20+ web sites proclaiming the absolute resurgence of print media.

So,......it is dead.
 
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The Washington Post is cutting its headcount by 10%.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/10/washington-post-staff-buyouts/

If you can't make money in the news business in Washington, DC, with all its money, its high demand for political coverage and reporting, and I would imagine no small subsidy from subscriptions by people not from the immediate area who want that political coverage, then nobody can make money on news.
 
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All this TJ joking around does, as innocent as it really was, is it just perpetuates the hate of Iowa State athletics that builds in Randy's old and tiny brain.
 
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TJ's response would have been better if he had saved it for a time when he was actually asked about something associated with his team running out of gas. Randy asked the opposite and probably feels like he got the last laugh when TJ didn't understand that the question was about the newcomers to the conference bringing more gas to the conference.
 
TJ's response would have been better if he had saved it for a time when he was actually asked about something associated with his team running out of gas. Randy asked the opposite and probably feels like he got the last laugh when TJ didn't understand that the question was about the newcomers to the conference bringing more gas to the conference.

I took it as Randy saying the conference will be weaker in a backhanded way.
 
The Washington Post is cutting its headcount by 10%.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/10/washington-post-staff-buyouts/

If you can't make money in the news business in Washington, DC, with all its money, its high demand for political coverage and reporting, and I would imagine no small subsidy from subscriptions by people not from the immediate area who want that political coverage, then nobody can make money on news.

My wife and I used to work in newspapers. We think the role of the news media is very important, trying to keep the populace informed about what’s happening is key to society, and print media in general does a better, more thorough, and more comprehensive job of that than TV/online sources. And let’s face it, a pretty high percentage of news you find online started at a newspaper anyway.

That said, today’s population doesn’t care to get their information from newspapers. That’s led to a race to the bottom for print media, as they cut costs by slashing their staffs and making their product worse (Gannett, owner of the DMR and many other papers, is terrible for this, as mentioned they’re all becoming USA Today clones … but the CR Gazette is following a similar path, printing the paper in Des Moines instead of CR so the morning edition has no news or sports coverage or high school scores from the previous evening, removing all color from the paper, cutting staff and moving their operations from the historic Gazette building to a tiny office space tucked under a parking ramp). It’s sad, but I can see why print media has to cut their costs - people aren’t buying their product anymore, they think they can get their news for free online.

I still don’t understand how newspaper owners think they can increase revenue by making their product worse, though.
 
It's an odd question by Randy if you think about it. Adding newcomers doesn't really change the amount of "gas" needed from the players. You still play 18 conference games at 40 minutes per game.
 
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It's an odd question by Randy if you think about it. Adding newcomers doesn't really change the amount of "gas" needed from the players. You still play 18 conference games at 40 minutes per game.
I took it as a swipe to the new teams coming in. Hey, how much of a tank do you need because you are bringing in some easy teams since they weren't in a P6 before. He would probably say that about Gonzaga also.
 
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I took it as a swipe to the new teams coming in. Hey, how much of a tank do you need because you are bringing in some easy teams since they weren't in a P6 before. He would probably say that about Gonzaga also.

Which is baffling as to how much Randy hasn't paid attention or wants to pretend it'll be easy.

All 4 new teams/programs are absolutely viable newcomers.

To me he's just passively appeasing Hok fans or something.
 

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