Iowa Beat Writers
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Maybe Shoultz should have given him credentials or maybe not. It seems like there's good enough reason either way. But Brommelkamp trying to threaten his way into getting them by saying he will "talk about it on the radio" is so stupid and exactly why I wouldn't give him credentials.
I live in the CR area and I dial in 1650 out of Cedar Falls to listen to Iowa State stuff...just to avoid the pro-Hawkeye stuff that is all over KGYM!
Only reason he wanted credentials is because iowa got beat and isn't there and he had the weekend off to watch them. He has no real interest in covering ISU. I listened yesterday as I do every Monday, to hear John Walters. TB sounded like a spoiled brat when he was talking about not getting a free ride to the Sweet 16. While most of the time he comes across as fair, you can hear the backhanded compliments and sarcastic tone on air. We don't need his type of coverage in this part of the state.
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Apparently this rule changed this year. In the past if you didn't cover the first and second rounds, media credentials were not allowed moving forward.
Two things can be true at the same time. Schoultz probably should have just given him the credential, because whatever. Unless we're literally out of them there is no reason not to unless you're behaving like a petty character from Mean Girls.
Brommelkamp is also a fake journalist who is retweeting the Barstool ISU twitter account and threatening to cry about it on the radio. It's absurd.
Brommelkamp is also a fake journalist who is retweeting the Barstool ISU twitter account and threatening to cry about it on the radio. It's absurd.
If the sweet sixteen site was in say Salt Lake City or New York, would Todd be going? I think we know the answer...
My guess is that Iowa State had already filed their credential requests and just used the same list that they had from the first and second round as this is how it was always handled in the past.
That's why I said if we had them to give. If we don't have any, Brommelkamp is just a petulant child. It sounds like that wasn't the communication from ISU though, sounds like we said we couldn't due to a rules thing.
Compared to a coworker of his who was making comments like this during our game with Wisconsin
I mean seriously... to pull the "we are a Cyclone affiliate card" and then not have someone cover ISU in Milwaukee is just an asinine thing to say.
ISU said they couldn't because that has always been the rule by the NCAA. Apparently the rule has changed. Could Iowa State have handled it better? Yeah probably but honestly I kind of appreciate the "go f*ck yourself" approach to an eastern IA shill just looking for a free ride. Minus the ripping people off for thousands of dollars, this whole deal is giving me big Time Marty Tirrell vibes.
All ISU needed was drop a note and KGYM would have been fine for a press pass. The rules are not fixed, they are guidelines.
Mark Dukes(KGYM) is not good.
Todd Brommelkamp(KGYM) is better than Dukes.
Cole Bair(KCNZ) is better than both and I expect him to move to a bigger market soon.
Mark Dukes(KGYM) is not good.
Todd Brommelkamp(KGYM) is better than Dukes.
Cole Bair(KCNZ) is better than both and I expect him to move to a bigger market soon.
Cole Bair is great and I really enjoy listening to his show on the drive home from work. Does a pretty fair job with covering UNI, ISU, and Iowa pretty evenly and then also is really good with the area high schools up here in the Cedar Valley
It's not ISU's responsibility to figure out who does or doesn't want a press pass.