uga beat at ajc

The Falcons have certainly been the most newsworthy beat over the past couple years with Vick, Petrino, etc.

And Ronnie makes a good point about their college football coverage across the south. That brings in a bunch more readers outside those at UGA who did learn to read while at Athens.

I'd like to see him rank Tech, the Hawks and the Thrashers. I'm guessing it would fall in that order. although the Hawks may be ready to supplant Tech.

 

Having grown up in the Peach State and read the AJC for most of the last 30 years, Georgia football is their No. 1 beat. The Braves are close, but their ebb and flow is like that of their attendance the last few years. Since the AJC has cut back its outside the metro area sales, a lot of places in eastern Alabama, southern Tennessee and along the Florida and Carolina borders get cut out of their Braves readership.

 

Titans are No. 1 with a (Pac Man Jones) bullet, something I would have never guessed growing up in Middle Tennessee back in the 80s. I don't ever see Preds coverage outranking UT though.

 

I agree completely with this. When I said the Predators are moving up in the ranks, I don't mean to say they'll overtake UT, just that my impression is that the Tennessean is putting much more focus on them now than they did a year or two ago. As I said before, UT is still No. 2. But the Titans have become the top beat at that paper.

 

The game in question (10 writers) was before the Ramos regime started...

 

Believe this... if UGA makes a run at a national title no one in the state will remember there are any other sports going on. Hell, they could probably quit covering the Hawks until mid-January.

 

Peter's right on the mark. No matter how much Georgia Tech and Falcons fans want to argue that point, it's true.

 

i just want to know what vick being at virginia tech had to do with the excitement of the falcons at the super bowl led by chris chandler....

and surprised no baseball writer has come in and laughed about 1,500 bylines in three years being unthinkable...

the fact the ajc won't hire from outside for this shows how far the ajc has fallen. sad for readers. i'd say that maybe they'll hire someone for something else and promote from within. but i'm afraid they'll do what so many papers are doing and just do with what they have, doing less with less.

and when you want to talk about what's the biggest beat -- how about when both teams aren't well? dogs by a mile

 

Looks like the AJC is getting plenty of mileage out of Ramos, with him in charge of both sports and features reporters. He's always been known as a workhorse.

 

1,500 for a baseball writer in three years is probably the norm unless a beat is split the way it is in a lot of places. In two years on a college beat (as was originally suggested) it's pretty unthinkable.

It blows my mind that they're not doing another national search for this job. If that's what they decide to do, I hope Kendall cleans the floor with the new beat writer.

 

"He's always been known as a workhorse," said MMatt, which either was written completely tongue in cheek or goes down as the most preposterous statement ever uttered on any message board in the history of the internet. A close second: The post about wanting Schlabach to stay.

You have GOT to be kidding me. Workhorse?

WORKHORSE?

 

"It blows my mind that they're not doing another national search for this job. If that's what they decide to do, I hope Kendall cleans the floor with the new beat writer."

Kendall doesn't do this anymore. You need better info.