But they work so hard!!!!!

When asked about J.V. coverage, my boss says, "We don't cover 'C' students."
It's a pretty harsh way to put it, but he's right.

 

Don't be such an arrogant ass.

Can you follow that?

 

Where I live they do play for championships. It also isn't an A team, B team divide, but rather an age classification. The "junior" team is a u-16 team and, although the odd player will play "senior" prior to turning 16 it's rare that it happens.

Junior teams do get coverage, albeit less so than the senior team. Obviously, a junior teams converge increases dramatically if it wins a championship.

Perhaps my questioning of this has something to do with a difference between what it means to be JV?

 

My paper runs a special section with team shots of the cheerleaders and bands (we cover five high schools). The rest of that section is ads (more than likely mostly businesses of band/cheer parents). Repeat, the section is nothing but STILL GROUP SHOTS. And I don't have to do a thing to help with it.

I've never had to take a call from a band or cheer parent in two years working at that paper. Bliss.

 

I dunno, in my school they were pretty gross girls.

Our AD didn't like them at all. For basketball, he forced them to be seated during the game.

 

In high school, the classes above mine had some sights for sore eyes, but my class had a good percentage of cute girls. College was pretty decent, though I found it odd that the captain of the squad was friends with me. Things didn't seem right.

 

Cover the cheerleader!

 

Don't make such dim arguments, and I won't have to be.

There's no need for name calling. You don't know me and I don't know you. You took that with a lot more malice than it was intended.

You don't cover JV.

 

I played baseball during the spring and was in the band during the fall, and I heard a lot of those kind echoes around football season, asking why the football team gets so much attention while the band doesn't. Even as a kid, I laughed. No one paid much attention to the band at a football game for a damn good reason: it's a fucking football game; not a band competition.

Those cries, though, were mostly from the parents who wanted their children to get as much play as the starting quarterback. Most of the kids shook them off. Two years ago, I was covering a football game and some lady asked me why the sports section never writes anything on the band. I told her, "When band becomes a sport, we'll put it in the sports section."

That worked pretty well.

 

At most, you report the score in the varsity game's box. Unless something remarkable happens, I'm with Zeke 100 percent. It's a waste of ink -- even on a slow news day.

 

Monday Morning, my high school was the same way. Now the volleyball players, that's where the hotness was at!

DGRollins, sounds like a huge difference wherever you are. I've never been nor heard of anywhere like that, so obviously my take is different. Everyone I've lived, covered, played varsity was the best players in the school regardless of age. JV was developmental and thus didn't play for any kind of state/conference/district title.

 

We don't staff JV matches.

However, if there is a freshman or JV match before a volleyball, basketball, baseball/softball or soccer game/match, we'll put the score(s) in the final line before the contact-the-author tagline. No stats or names, just scores.

Haven't gotten any complaints so far.