USCHO DIII Championship coverage???

[gojackets]

Re: USCHO DIII Championship coverage???

Thanks for the info. I guess this is one more reason why you would only hold the FF in the West every 9 years...

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[one_to7]

Re: USCHO DIII Championship coverage???

Really, you probably don't even have to delve that deeply. College hockey itself is a niche sport; women's college hockey is a niche within a niche, and d3 women's hockey is smaller niche still. Frankly, I doubt the amount of ad money generated by most threads on any part of the boards covers the hosting and bandwidth costs of said threads - clickthru rates on ads are abysmal. Hence why USCHO has the "extra" subscription to garner more revenue.

Most game recap authors are students who also cover the team for their school paper. They sign-up to write for USCHO as well for a little more experience and exposure, if the school paper lets them. USCHO gets them a media credential if they can't get one through their school paper, but otherwise they don't get any compensation, travel or otherwise.

So, to get a game recap, you'd need a student who's also a game reporter for one of the teams who is also able to get to the game on his or her own dime.

Granted I'm not sure what's changed in the past few years, but what I'd heard in the past was that the Cafe generated enough hits to pay for the rest of the site.

Granted that's a far cry from generating revenue to fly people around to cover games, which isn't done at the DIII level at all, really.

UNOFan: most recaps for DIII mens are done by the columnists, or not at all, there aren't arena reporters like there are in DI. I assume the situation is similar for DIII women's hockey, although I haven't covered nor followed it, so I wouldn't know for sure.

Given the game was broadcast online it would have been possible to do a recap from anywhere, although getting quotes from coaches or players would have been next to impossible.