Thursday, April 10, 2008

BC Puts Blogging Policy to the Test

So after one period, Boston College leads North Dakota 4-0 in the first NCAA semifinal.

The interesting thing is that if any journalists were live-blogging from Denver, they wouldn't have been allowed to post about all of the goals until the period was over. Everyone with a media pass is required to sign a piece of paper agreeing to the NCAA's live-blogging policy, which says that any live-blog is only allowed 3 posts per period, and one post between periods.

4 comments:

Greg said...

Wow that policy is total BS! Thanks NCAA for keeping your iron fist alive and well. What if you don't call it a blog? What about emails? So if I were to go there and hookup on a wireless card without a press pass I could do it? Sorry to complain about this, but it seems very controlling to me. PS - I am not a journalist at all and this angers me. You all should fight for this policy to be abolished! You do know that it's all about the money. Keep that in mind.

Anonymous said...

I guess it was nice of the Committee to shield the WCHA from inter-conference competition by giving them an entire regional to themselves.

UNH and Miami must feel like they got robbed not getting to play WCHA teams.

Anonymous said...

I'm a WCHA fan and man did we lay an egg this year.

Anonymous said...

"I guess it was nice of the Committee to shield the WCHA from inter-conference competition by giving them an entire regional to themselves."

You can blame that on 2005. Remember in 2006 when they put every WCHA team in two brackets so there was no repeat of the 2005 all-WCHA Frozen.