Comments on: 40 Days till Hawaii http://courtenaybrown.com/2009/11/40-days-till-hawaii/ Applause! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kelly http://courtenaybrown.com/2009/11/40-days-till-hawaii/comment-page-1/#comment-5432 Kelly Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:06:48 +0000 http://courtenaybrown.com/?p=2142#comment-5432 you ARE awesome! there are a lot of weird incentives here, but I don't think any of them are for the good of athletic development. you ARE awesome!

there are a lot of weird incentives here, but I don’t think any of them are for the good of athletic development.

]]> By: Mindi http://courtenaybrown.com/2009/11/40-days-till-hawaii/comment-page-1/#comment-5431 Mindi Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:35:43 +0000 http://courtenaybrown.com/?p=2142#comment-5431 One other thing ... I was actually thinking about the media issue Wednesday, when Chris Lieto was speaking at Road Runner. If one of the top athletes in a 'mainstream' sport, especially on the heels of a performance like Lieto's second-place at Kona, were to come to another city and speak to a bunch of local fans, the local media (Seattle Times, maybe Tacoma, the P-I.com, the local radio stations, etc.) probably would have been there. As it is, no one knew he was there except the folks who know someone who was there. Ridiculous. One other thing … I was actually thinking about the media issue Wednesday, when Chris Lieto was speaking at Road Runner. If one of the top athletes in a ‘mainstream’ sport, especially on the heels of a performance like Lieto’s second-place at Kona, were to come to another city and speak to a bunch of local fans, the local media (Seattle Times, maybe Tacoma, the P-I.com, the local radio stations, etc.) probably would have been there. As it is, no one knew he was there except the folks who know someone who was there. Ridiculous.

]]> By: Mindi http://courtenaybrown.com/2009/11/40-days-till-hawaii/comment-page-1/#comment-5430 Mindi Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:24:45 +0000 http://courtenaybrown.com/?p=2142#comment-5430 -- Chris is right. Even as much as I bitch about the weather here, September and October were significantly nicer than normal for those 61 days. -- And I fully agree with the media issues. I was shocked to not see more information come up when doing a recent news search on Kona. But the parent companies can only do so much (although publicity *to* the media would be a start) -- at some point it's on the media for not giving it any attention. From there, they blame the public for lack of caring, assuming since they're not getting calls, they don't care about the coverage of the sport/issue. But how can people care if they don't know anything about the sport, circling back to the lack of media coverage. Sorry, rant. It's a self-perpetuating cycle where everyone just decides to claim ignorance. – Chris is right. Even as much as I bitch about the weather here, September and October were significantly nicer than normal for those 61 days.

– And I fully agree with the media issues. I was shocked to not see more information come up when doing a recent news search on Kona. But the parent companies can only do so much (although publicity *to* the media would be a start) — at some point it’s on the media for not giving it any attention. From there, they blame the public for lack of caring, assuming since they’re not getting calls, they don’t care about the coverage of the sport/issue. But how can people care if they don’t know anything about the sport, circling back to the lack of media coverage.

Sorry, rant. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle where everyone just decides to claim ignorance.

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