I cancelled my Dispatch subscription due to their overblown Buckeye coverage and abysmal Bobcat articles. Looking on their website today, I don't see any coverage of our bowl victory from last night. Granted I haven't picked up the print edition yet. However, I tend to recall many instances where the Dispatch more than adequately covers our losses.

Does anyone else notice this? Or am I missing where they did in fact cover a thrilling bowl win?

FWIW, the Dispatch did have an article on C5 today about the game. Not a Znidar article, likely one they pulled from AP, that's probably in most newspapers around the country. 

And to be fair, there is a mention of it on the top of the front page of the paper as well. I'd love to have more Ohio coverage, but I'm tired of beating that dead horse.

And now, with Bobcat Showcase, etc, there is much more coverage about Bobcat sports. You just aren't going to find much in the papers.

Page 3 down here in the Cincinnati paper. 

Cant blame them either; but perhaps they could invest in a media guide or read the game notes and they would notice it is Ohio not Ohio U.  

Never understood this "obsession" with how or IF the Dispatch covers us. It screams of "Little Man" syndrome to me. We are not located in Columbus, and we are one of what 8 or 9 other D1 schools in Ohio? That we get any amount of coverage from the Dispatch is probably a gift and from little bit of attention I pay to the Dispatch, we probably get more than all the other MAC Ohio schools combined.

Thanks for clarification on how the coverage turned out in the print edition. I haven't had a chance to see a hard copy today. However, I did see the coverage of our MAC championship game loss. Front page on the sports section and bold headline.

And for winning the bowl game, we get page 5 of the section and just an AP article? What were they writing about in the first four pages? There must have been a lot of analysis with O$U beating an unranked Gamecocks basketball team.

Congrats on your bg=ig win!!!!!  go MAC

You did get some pub in the Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/sns-tsn-afn-recap-ut...

I have been asked many times to subscribe to the dispatch. THEY CAN FORGET IT. I tell them that until they begin covering the MAC, I will never subscribe and only buy one on occasion for the ads and coupons. I have written to them encouraging them to cover the six major univesities of the MAC in the state of Ohio. Many of our players as well as players from the other MAC schools come from central Ohio and should be recognized. Thank you Grove City! A show on WTVN did give a lot of congrats to our CATS this morning.
It was not their usual sports show which often includes earl the pearl bruce (old 9-3).
GO BOBCATS. GREAT YEAR! Was at 8 games this year - hope to be at 9 next year.

Chicago Tribune quotes TT as saying that the final six was a designed run.

Didn't I hear him say in the interview right after the game that the play was designed as a pass?

All things considered, it's not a very good newspaper and they are becoming increasingly obsolete in the digital age. But they are the only major printed news outlet in Central Ohio for the time being, and they continue to alienate those who want something more than O$U cheerleading. Not a recipe for a secure future for them in my view.

Speaking of newspaper coverage, more relevant to me is that the Mess didn't send Arkley to Boise, either.  Yes, it is an expensive trip, and yes, budgets are tight, but seriously?

Maybe Clarence Page had some influence at the TRIB.   Good Luck to NIU

I'm not defending the Dispatch, but the newshole for a Friday night game when nothing else was going on in the world of sports and a newshole following a full Saturday are drastically different -- especially when the bowl game was played at 5:30 p.m. If the game was a primtime game, I'm guessing it gets pushed up in the pecking order.

A newspaper is concerned that when you get that story, the game has been over for more than 12 hours. (I think newspapers are far too concerned with this, personally. A newspaper reader is reading a newspaper to get 'old' news along with some perspective rather than a half-dash rote retelling).

But I agree with the plea for consistency. Don't suddenly make an Ohio postseason game a major event and then bury the bowl game that far deep. I think even a stubby two-column story on the bottom right corner would've sufficed for a Sunday edition.

And The Messenger's coverage didn't get bashed on here until people couldn't read it for free anymore. It's why I love working for newspapers that are free -- it stifles a whole lot of yapping. Hardly anyone can complain about something for which they didn't pay.

Well, people still find ways, but it's much easier to slam the phone down self-righteously in such cases.