Following
the May 9th CoSIDA conference call/webcast for member entitled "Division I Communications Issues & Topics Roundtable", the entire one-hour call has been archived for CoSIDA members.
These archives
are made available courtesy of corporate partners TRZ Sports/TEAMLINE, the Official CoSIDA Teleconference Call Provider, and ASAP Sports, CoSIDA's Official Instant Transcript Provider.
To those who participated in the educational session, thank you. For those who could not participate during the live call, and for those who wish to review the discussion, the entire call has been archived.
CoSIDA Membership Educational Session:
Division I Communications Issues & Topics Roundtable
With D1A Athletic Directors Association (D1 ADA) leaders & CoSIDA Division I leaders
• Monday, May 9
Moderator
Larry Dougherty, CoSIDA President (Temple University)
Presenters
From D1A Athletic Directors Association [D1A ADA]
Bob Bowlsby (Stanford University)
Jeff Hathaway (University of Connecticut)
Dave Hart (University of Alabama)
CoSIDA Division I representatives
Shelly Poe (Ohio State University)
Charles Bloom (Southeastern Conference)
Max Corbet (Boise State)
DeWayne Peevy (University of Kentucky)
Audio Archive/Playback/On-Demand materials
You can access this on-demand information from the May 9th call in the following ways:
1. by accessing the ASAP Sports Fastscripts® full transcript of the call:
• download the Fastscripts® Word doc version
• download the Fastscripts® PDF version
A real-time transcripts - Webscripts® - was provided during the one-hour call. After the call, that transcript has been archived as a Fastscripts® file.
2. Read the archived CoverItLive blog
3. access the TRZ Communications/Teamline archived audio stream for on-demand/play-back at this link (LENGTH: 0:53:54)
• Topics Discussed
· What are some of the major communications-based issues facing collegiate athletics?
· What are solutions for dealing with these issues?
· What are the expectations of today's communications directors and ADs in terms of developing specific strategies and tactics for dealing with communications based issues, challenges and opportunities?
· How can today's communications staffs help educate athletic directors and their senior staff about communications-related issues?
· Discuss the importance of communications directors attending continuing education conventions, and discuss what we can do jointly to get them get their staffs to understand and attend.
Questions raised during the call by CoSIDA members:
· Fans still look at school or conference websites as non-objective sources of information - posting "puff pieces" on their programs. How do we confront this?
· How do ADs and athletic communicators deal with the reality of essentially always being "on the record" and visible 24/7? How do we keep our student-athletes from becoming totally gun shy when facing the media, fans, etc. because of this?