I also grow weary of the journalism angle being used to critique our broadcast team. I view them as entertainers, not journalists. In today's world of media choices, people reporting what is going on need to be interesting. Merely being informative is no longer good enough because the information is already available form many other sources. I think a large part of our message board has no sense of humor and is way too critical of everything around them.
We lead the league in attendance and folks complain about the numbers not being accurate. We have the best gameday atmosphere in the league and folks complain about all the promotions. We have a team that is 18-4 and folks complain about the way they win. We have the best broadcast team in the league and someone goes to another team's message board and outs Rob C. for not being liked because of a funny twitter post. Does anyone really take a die hard NIU basketball fan seriously anyway? This is ridiculous. I hope Russ and Rob don't change a thing.
Thank you for saying this. Some of the negativity can be really annoying. We are, after all, "supporters" of OUr team, school, and athletic department right?