Would be nice if STL tv news would mention us.

Hockey is a niche sport.

STL media sucks

STL sucks

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I'm from neither, lived in and worked professionally in both, KC is better

Mizzou will always be a distant third or lower in a pro sports state. It's just the way it is.

Maybe, possibly, probably.

But STL media has always seemed blind deaf and dumb when it comes to Mizzou. KC media covers them at least as much as anyone else

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Look, It's not the media's job to give Mizzou good PR. MAYBE Mizzou should do a better job promoting itself in St Louis and Kansas City. Maybe Odom should do a better job promoting his program period.

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Who said anything about good PR? I said coverage. And coverage that’s relevant to 50,000 Mizzou alumni in the St. louis area. Plus the people like me who didn’t go there but still love the team. They don’t have say positive things about Mizzou, just report.

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Maybe Odom should do a better job promoting his program period.

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It's easy to blame the media but it starts at the top.

When Odom started losing last year he childishly quit doing his statewide scheduled media committments. Then they had to all but beg him to start doing them again this year (which he is), but he shouldn't have shirked them in the first place. It's one of the aspects of being the head coach that he handled like a coordinator. "My team sucks and they want me to answer questions about it?? I don't need this. Eff it."

I'm sure he quit doing local media to try to fix what was ailing the team, but it was bush league and it cuts both ways. You can't tell the media "screw this" and then expect them to give you priority coverage when it's convenient to you or you need something.

The same holds true to Mizzou's Media Relations department. Someone I know in the media was trying to get 10 minutes with Josh Huepel during the recruiting season to talk about his offense, his offensive philosophies, etc. It was going to be pure fluff and hype to get people excited to see his high flying offense in person and it took weeks get him on the phone for 10 effing minutes. Complete and total bullshite.

Cuonzo Martin, on the other hand, understands what the local media wants and needs and makes himself available for weekly chats in-season and multiple availabilities during the off-season. He gets it and conducts himself as a professional. Brand building demands a regular, consistent committment of time with the media.

So before people bitch about a lack of consistent coverage look no further than how the head coaches of our two major programs discharge their responsibilites.

When Mizzou was winning in 2013 and 2014, coverage was plentiful on 101 in STL. Dedicating time for a winner is easy.

Mizzou claims to be this great journalism school, and it doesn’t utilize its vast array of contacts to even just promote the school and its athletics within the damn state of Missouri. That’s just sad.

STL media is shite though. And I’d tske the current KC for living everyday of the week. If it wasn’t for the Cardinals there’d be no reason to go there.