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dkurtenbach said

Please… continue…

If its any concellation Dieter, I no longer receive the pbp in paper form at all, because of their FAU coverage.

However, I do receive the Sentinel still.


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Well, to expand, the Sun-Sentinel's FAU coverage pretty much stinks as well, as of late. That paper devoted about the same amount of ink to the late two games as the Post has - with no sidebars, notes, fact boxes, etc. that are normally given to featured teams. The S-S is giving FAU about the same day-after coverage as UCF, which is pretty poor. And the game week coverage seems less, especially since Ted Hutton left.
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@bmarkey
My email address is [email protected] and my phone number is 954.319.8504. Feel free to contact me regarding your concerns in coverage. I try to balance my half-dozen responsibilities as well as possible, and I'm always advocating for more space for a team that's lost more than a dozen conference games in a row, but as you could expect, it's a hard sell. Beyond that, access to the team is extremely limited and my credential has been threatened for routine reporting more than once since taking the beat.

Open to any and all suggestions, criticisms or gripes you, or anyone else on this forum, has, 24/7.
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can anyone remember our last conference win…..but yea your right there is nothing good positive about this team at all you would have to make shit up to write someone good about hits program and your also right FAU keeps everything close Pelini doesn't any one to know about the 15 bubble screens we have.
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dkurtenbach said

Beyond that, access to the team is extremely limited and my credential has been threatened for routine reporting more than once since taking the beat.

This irks me to no end.  Closing practices to the media makes absolutely no sense at this point in time.

Free publicity is very important right now.  I know that's how they do it at Nebraska and Ohio State.  This ain't Nebraska!

If we were winning, then it is a different story.  Right now, I don't believe spies are looking to steal our plays.  Heck, they can have half of them if they want them.
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owlcountry40 said

can anyone remember our last conference win…..but yea your right there is nothing good positive about this team at all you would have to make **** up to write someone good about hits program and your also right FAU keeps everything close Pelini doesn't any one to know about the 15 bubble screens we have.

Can someone interpret this for me?
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dkurtenbach said

@bmarkey
My email address is [email protected] and my phone number is 954.319.8504. Feel free to contact me regarding your concerns in coverage. I try to balance my half-dozen responsibilities as well as possible, and I'm always advocating for more space for a team that's lost more than a dozen conference games in a row, but as you could expect, it's a hard sell. Beyond that, access to the team is extremely limited and my credential has been threatened for routine reporting more than once since taking the beat.

Open to any and all suggestions, criticisms or gripes you, or anyone else on this forum, has, 24/7.
Why would they pull your credential?
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cbboarder said

Can someone interpret this for me?

I can try….

owlcountry40 said

 can anyone remember our last conference win ?

No need for explanation of that

owlcountry40 said

 but yea your right there is nothing good positive about this team at all you would have to make **** up to write someone good about hits program

I believe this was in response to Dieter… You're right, there is nothing good or positive to say about this team at all. If you wanted to write something good about this team, you would have to make sh*t up.

owlcountry40 said

 You are also right. FAU keeps everything close Pelini doesn't any one to know about the 15 bubble screens we have

You're right about closing practices, FAU keeps everything close. Pelini doesn't want anyone to know about the 15 bubble screens we have (type of play the team runs).

I think that's what he said lol

My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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FAU coverage

If Kurtenbach has been threatened with having his credentials pulled, my guess would be that it involved some of his tweets, which could be interpreted as nasty, biting, acerbic and perhaps humorous (the latter, arguably).

My email address is [email protected] and my phone number is 954.319.8504. Feel free to contact me regarding your concerns in coverage. I try to balance my half-dozen responsibilities as well as possible, and I'm always advocating for more space for a team that's lost more than a dozen conference games in a row, but as you could expect, it's a hard sell. Beyond that, access to the team is extremely limited and my credential has been threatened for routine reporting more than once since taking the beat.

I do appreciate his problems in mid-week coverage, but there are plenty of potential stories to investigate about up-and-coming players, schedules, news from the new AD, etc.

I appreciate Kurtenbach's willingness to accept criticism, and his response. I understand that he has other responsibilities that might not allow him to cover FAU the way it should be covered. If the S-S has him covering high schools, the Marlins or even Panthers, that is a mistake made by the powers that be of that newspaper. My criticisms over the depth of FAU coverage were not meant to be pointed at him, solely.

That said, I have heard it mentioned that because FAU is not a winner any longer, it does not deserve the coverage other programs receive. That is absolute garbage.

FAU, as  a major institution in South Florida and one of the most important institutions in Palm Beach County, deserves more coverage than programs two or even six counties away. Those places get lots of coverage the S-S and Post could easily pick up, and they are far less important to local readers. Name another place to which 30,000-plus local people belong every weekday.

The "lose-get no coverage" argument holds no water at all! If it did, the Marlins would not receive any of the multiple daily stories they receive because they are a joke to baseball. The Panthers, in recent years, would receive a story per week, if they were lucky. The Hurricanes, who have been mostly a failure in recent years and are teetering on the brink of sanctions that could drop them to Division II status (along with Pen State), couldn't draw 20,000 people to an in-state game against Bethune Cookman a couple of weeks ago, yet they receive pages of pre- and post-game coverage in the Post and S-S.

Maybe the S-S covers those other losing programs more completely because they are considered community institutions of merit in its home community (Broward, and to some extent, Dade).

More FAU coverage should be an easy business decision for these newspapers. FAU has far more alumni in the readership area of the Post and S-S than Miami does.

Maybe the S-S covers those other losing programs more completely because they are considered community institutions of merit in its home community (Broward, and to some extent, Dade). The culture of what deserves the most coverage and how is o,d and outdated. It needs to be re imagined with the new landscape and demographics of South Florida - not the glory of the "big-three" from the 1980s - in mind.
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