griz p.r.

[citygriz]

hey, who does p.r. for the basketball team--jimmy hoffa? a deaf mute? an ad agency from north korea?

a week ago, months after the season had ended, our new recruits had been signed and the b.p. oil spill had come and gone, our roster still listed ryan staudacher, anthony johnson, michael taylor and vassy banny on the team. gratefully, we just got an updated roster--with no pix of the new players, last year's pix of the returning players and one bio that is heartbreakingly out of date.

c'mon, isn't there one person in the basketball department who cares enough that rosters be updated, and bios not contain glaring errors? here i thought gb1 was the devil. nope. the devil is in the details.

 

[GrizWhiz]

The bios for some of the returning players are two years out of date. They don't look like they have been updated since the beginning of the '08-'09 season. :?

 

[General Disarray]

I think it's interesting that they say that Billy Reader doesn't turn 18 until next June and is expected to grow to 6'10'' or 6'11''. It would be nice to be able to redshirt him, but I don't know if Qvale, Selvig, Ward, and Hutchison will be enough bigs to get through a whole season.

 

[GrizLA]

hey, who does p.r. for the basketball team--jimmy hoffa? a deaf mute? an ad agency from north korea?

a week ago, months after the season had ended, our new recruits had been signed and the b.p. oil spill had come and gone, our roster still listed ryan staudacher, anthony johnson, michael taylor and vassy banny on the team. gratefully, we just got an updated roster--with no pix of the new players, last year's pix of the returning players and one bio that is heartbreakingly out of date.

c'mon, isn't there one person in the basketball department who cares enough that rosters be updated, and bios not contain glaring errors? here i thought gb1 was the devil. nope. the devil is in the details.

THAT IS A QUESTION I HAVE BEEN ASKING MYSELF! In fact, sometimes I think the entire athletic dept is poorly represented to the public outside Missoula....a tree falling in the forest is apropos to the UM PR effort.

 

[Potomac Griz]

According to the bios on montanagrizzlies.com Qvale just finished his Freshman year & Selvig redshirted last year. Glad we'll have Qvale for 3 more years and Selvig for 4!

It's pretty sad..there are 14 players on the Griz roster. How hard is it to do 14 bios to keep the site somewhat up to date? Falling behind 2 years is just flat out unacceptable.

I know it's kind of like beating a dead horse..but I'll say it again.. The athletic department doesn't seem to give a flying rats ass about the Men's BB program, or the fans that attend the games.

Look at the Women's roster. Up to date bios with links to their individual stats right in the bios! The Football roster was a little out of whack earlier in the season for a few days, but was quickly fixed (Middleton added, Celleto removed, etc). Hell... every sport on MontanaGrizzlies.com seems to have an updated roster...except Men's BB (and it's 2 years behind for some of the bios). :roll:

After all of the attention the game against Weber, AJ's performance, making it to the NCAA tournament, and the ESPY nomination got the school last year, you'd think they'd start to show a tiny bit of interest in Men's BB again.

 

[Grizbacker1]

You basically have a lazy Men's Sports Information Director and a Women's SID who gets it done. Email O'Day and ask him why this is allowed.

 

[Evizzerate]

What does Learfield collect millions to do?

 

[chitowngriz]

the coaching staff should share some of the blame. they should be aware of things like this.

 

[bobaloo]

Should not have to email O'Day as this was a complaint last year at this time from Citay. O'Day should be aware of this and taken care of the problem long ago.

 

[wbtfg]

What does Learfield collect millions to do?

Learfield pays UM...

As for what they do...essentially they sell advertising to corporate sponsors. They do not do any type of SID work.