NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging

An anonymous reader writes "You would think that the NCAA would be thrilled to have reporters live blogging events in order to generate more interest and keep passionate fans talking about NCAA sports. Not so. The governing body of the NCAA has released new rules for receiving press credentials and it includes severe limits on live blogging. If you're covering NCAA football, make sure you don't blog more than 3 times in a single quarter. If it's baseball, one post an inning is all you get. If you don't follow the rules expect to get ejected and have your press credentials pulled."

What are these "sports" you speak of?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it something like... chess?

£5 says

[Malevolent Tester]

The baseball bloggers start compiling meticulous statistics on ejection averages.

Re:How do they expect to detect this ?

[jayhawk88]

This is the same organization that is used to discovering how many phone calls a coach's assistant made to a recruits uncle between the months of April and August from 4 years ago. Trust me, they've got no problem sweating the details.

Re:Bullshit

[HTH NE1]

Maybe they should adopt an even more restrictive information model to drum up more live interest, like the model of Brockian Ultra-Cricket where not only is there no reporting on the game, you can't even see the game when you attend it!

Take it to the next level: completely seal up the arena so no one can observe the game other than the players and you'll have the Wide World of Schrödinger Sports!

Re:Bullshit

[iamdrscience]

Also, NCAA, shoot yourself in the foot much?

They can't help it, they're the NCAA and as we all know on Slashdot, all organizations ending in "AA" are prone to shooting themselves in the foot by creating new rules/laws.

Re:Bullshit

[sm62704]

NCAA, shoot yourself in the foot much?

The NCAA deals more with balls than feet, making the shot far more painful.

-mcgrew

Re:£5 says

[BZWingZero]

Don't you mean injection averages?

Blogging Gerund Fun

[Adambomb]

Calvin certainly said it best.

Verbing weirds language.

Re:Bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

Since both teams win every game, does that mean I always win my bets? I guess I'd really get hosed on odds though. On a better note, the Cubs would finally have a shot.

Actually, you can't say if either team won or lost, both teams exist in this sort of fuzzy won-and-lost state. Unless somebody breaks the cyanide capsule hidden in the arena, then everybody loses.

Re:How do they expect to detect this ?

[Doctor-Optimal]

I have a ton laying around my house in little round circles.

Thank you for clarifying that those circles were, in fact, round.

Re:Bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

Take it to the next level: completely seal up the arena so no one can observe the game other than the players and you'll have the Wide World of Schrödinger Sports!

More commonly known as the NHL...

Did they ever come back from that strike or lockout or whatever it was?

Re:Not surprising

[tkrotchko]

Considering how the jaguars have played most of the time, you were doing your readership a favor not covering them ;)

Re:Maybe it's time to start questioning...

[drooling-dog]

Do whatever it takes to get yourself on the board of regents of a university with a voting stake in the NCAA, and change the status quo.

Ordinarily I would do just that, but the last time I complained about the war in Iraq someone told me I should run for President or STFU, and it's been taking all the time I have just to get that whole process started. Running for President, I mean.

And don't even get me started about the time I complained about the weather...