Have you all noticed a lack of A&M coverage in the local sports sections of The Temple Daily Telegram and Killeen Herald? Am I missing it somewhere?

Not missing it. There never has been any.

Absolutely none in the Waco trib, but I would expect that from them. There was a tiny AP blip this morning about the game being cancelled.

What else is new Temple/Killeen/Waco is a cesspool of Aggie hate. Bunch of butthurt haters in Central Tx.

How much is there to print about a cancelled game?

I'm hoping for less baler sunshine pumping since the paper in Waco was bought from that Robinson idiot.

KBK - I was refering to the usual pre-season coverage. It wasn't there for A&M

Did you forget? A&M moved out of Texas.

The trib wouldn't even put us in the pick section. We are listed below with the also rans. and NOT in the celebrity pick at all.

When we lived there I wrote a letter to the Telegram Sports editor about the lack of A&M coverage. He wrote back and told me that they roll with whatever the AP gives them. That's just one of the reasons I was glad to move.

The big papers share beat reporters. Brent Zwimmerman writes for the SA paper and Houston Cronicle.

Many of the big papers have cut back on reporters, that's why so many are now writing for websites.

The small papers like Waco & Temple don't have the resources for anything outside of town unless it is a wire report.

I've given up on newspapers for any sports coverage.

KCEN tonight - Big 12 weekend preview, previewed every Big 12 game of the weekend, complete with highlights. Mention of the A&M Florida game, by far the biggest game in the state this weekend,.... None, nada, and zilch.

Oh, AND BAYLOR ISN'T EVEN PLAYING!!

Nice job guys

Any Aggie advertisers to that station? Shouldn't be by tomorrow.

As I continue my rant. Sunday we were listed under "Texas colleges" with a three paragraph summery of the smu game along with umhb and rice. I'm canceling my subscription. I hope other ags do the same. It's a disgrace. Many many d1 schools got lots more coverage than the ags.

they did it again. 3 paragraphs. Penn St gets more coverage.

Listed under "Texas colleges" again. Also DID NOT put us in the tv listings.

I guess their little feelings are hurt.

One of the many reasons I dropped the Trib. John Werner wrote an especially nasty article when we were leaving. Businesses in waco think everyone is a Baylor fan.... Like when Michna's taunted the A&M women's basketball team on their billboard when Baylor beat us.

I think small minded crap like that and what the Trib is obviously doing now is costing them money. They don't seem to care. But I'm not going to subscribe to a paper that obviously has a chip on their shoulder about A&M.

Still no coverage in Killeen Daily Herald or Temple Daily Telegram about the up-coming game and "interest" stories like the carry for tu.

baylor is totally clueless about the interest they have in Waco. In their little bubble, they actually believe locals give a rats rear about them or their sports teams. The local newspaper is totally out of touch.

tdt had no post game wrap up at all for La Tech game...it really is as if we didn't play.

Here's Werner's article during realignment. Was the last straw that caused me to swear off the Trib forever:

quote:

---

John Werner: Aggies make rash move they may regret

JOHN WERNER
Tribune-Herald staff writer
Thursday September 1, 2011


Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin called the school’s decision to leave the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference “a 100-year decision.”

Sounds more like a 100-minute decision.

While the Aggies can talk all they want about expanding their visibility in a more stable SEC, their move still comes across to everybody else as a knee-jerk reaction to the Texas Longhorns getting their own lucrative network deal with ESPN.

Though the Aggies flirted with the SEC last summer, everything seemed pretty calm until details of the Longhorn Network came to light earlier this year. The Longhorns will get $15 million annually for the next 20 years from the ESPN deal, creating more of a financial imbalance with the rest of the Big 12.

Suddenly, Aggies everywhere panicked. Instead of fighting the Longhorns, they’re fleeing.

Fleeing right to the toughest conference in the country.

If the Aggies thought they were going to have a competitive imbalance against the Longhorns, they’re really going to face an uphill battle against SEC teams. They might share equally in television revenue distribution, but on the football field it’s going to be a much different story.

SEC schools like Alabama, Florida, LSU and Auburn are established powers with recent national championships on their resumes. The Aggies have barely kept their heads above water in the Big 12 during the last decade, and haven’t won a national title since 1939.

While the SEC might boost Texas A&M’s recruiting, it’s also going to open the door for other SEC schools to come into Texas and pick off high school recruits. So now, the Aggies aren’t just going to have to recruit against the Longhorns and other Big 12 schools like Baylor and Texas Tech, they’re going to have to fight off established SEC powers who are licking their chops to get more Texas schoolboy access.

But what bothers me most about the Aggies jumping ship is that they didn’t honor their commitment they made to the Big 12 last summer.

After Nebraska bolted to the Big Ten and Colorado to the Pac-10 last summer, the remaining 10 Big 12 members decided to stick together with assurances of lucrative future television contracts. Part of the deal was that the Longhorns could form their own network in addition to the Big 12 TV contracts.

Honor the deal

It came to fruition this spring when the Big 12 agreed to a 13-year television contract with Fox Sports reportedly worth $1 billion. The future of the Big 12 finally appeared to be on solid ground.

But when the Aggies started seeing a deluge of advertisements for the Longhorn Network on ESPN this summer, they suddenly started talking about breaking their commitment to the Big 12 and jumping to the SEC.

A school that prides itself on honor and tradition began acting like none of those things mattered anymore.

While the other Big 12 schools had concerns about the Longhorn Network, nobody but the Aggies panicked. When the NCAA ruled that the Longhorn Network couldn’t televise high school football games, it calmed the fears of most Big 12 schools.

Oklahoma is looking into starting its own network. Why couldn’t the Aggies do the same? Bolting to the SEC says tons about the Aggies’ insecurity when it comes to the Longhorns.

For a “100-year decision,” the Aggies’ movers and shakers didn’t think of all the ramifications of this move. It’s disingenuous for Loftin to suggest that the Aggies could still play the Longhorns in a Thanksgiving football game.

Alone on Thanksgiving

Why would the Longhorns still want to play the Aggies after they broke their word and left the conference? Why would the Aggies want to add another powerhouse on their schedule after diving into the SEC shark tank?

I wouldn’t be surprised if Texas, Baylor and Texas Tech boycotted the Aggies in sports across the board.

Maybe some Aggies are cheering, but I suspect there’s another faction of Aggies who believe it’s a sad day like a lot of fans across the state. Some great rivalries against the Big 12 Texas and Oklahoma schools will bite the dust.

When you’re not playing the other Big 12 Texas schools, you’re taking the risk of marginalizing yourself in this state. It seems to me any Aggie would take pride in beating the Longhorns than any SEC school.

Like any hasty idea, the Aggies’ 100-minute decision might come back to haunt them.

jwerner@wacotrib.com

---

I have noticed more coverage of A&M in both the Temple Daily Telegram and Killeen Daily Herald lately. Newswire stuff. No local reporter.

Most papers don't have local reporters going to cover out of town stuff anymore.

Even the big papers share reporters now and their sports departments are a tiny fraction of what they used to be. That's why so many of the old sportswriters work for ESPN, Fox, Yahoo, or other internet sites.

Werner finally previewed an A&M game. I'm sure he was especially happy to talk about how Alabama will beat us.

Pooooooor cubbies.

They can't ignore A&M now. Both KWTX and KCEN had good post-game recaps Sat night. Good spread in KDH Sun morning

I don't subscribe to the Waco Trib any more, but my Dad was convinced the Trib used the Alabama AP writer's account of the game on Sunday because it talked all about Alabama and not much about A&M. I later read it and I think he is right. We have a female AP reporter that writes on us. This was a guy. Typical Waco paper BS.

What a useless rag. We once shopped and ate out a lot in Waco. Since last summer, we have stopped entirely.