Paywalled. Can you give us some snippets?
What's your complaint here?? Nothing bad about Rutgers in that. It's actually an accurate story how the game went.
I'm not saying it's inaccurate or derogatory . . . just that it's a story that treats Temple as the hometown team. Again, that's not surprising for a Philly newspaper, but South Jersey is part of that media market, and so this kind of coverage weakens Rutgers' sway in South Jersey.
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Here's something to consider instead. How would a Temple-PSU game, whether out in Crappy Valley or at the Linc, have been covered by the Inquirer?
Weakens Rutgers sway in South Jersey??? Huh. Read it again. It clearly points out Rutgers was and has been the better team. It's nothing but complimentary to Rutgers. Why would a Philadelphia newspaper consider Rutgers a home town school?? Temple is the hometown team!
This is such an odd take. Temple is in Philadelphia. They are the hometown team!
That's not the point. The point is that Rutgers is treated as the opposition team, not as another team in the area. That's why South Jersey is not Rutgers territory.
Multiple stories. One by the PSU beat writer and one by the Temple beat writer.
It was accurate, and I felt it was indirectly complimentary towards Rutgers, if that makes sense.
Not in my experience. The story would be written from a Temple standpoint -- but not nearly as much as this story.
Do the NYC papers treat Rutgers as their local college? Rutgers is the opposition! Stop taking mushrooms dude!
What?? The Inquirer has Joe Juliano as Penn State beat writer. Marc Narducci covers Temple football.
The Philly suburbs actually do. Along with the Star Ledger and NY Post. All three are everywhere that actually sells newspapers anymore.
Now I have a bit better idea of what you're getting at. But perhaps they really aren't being considered or treated as another team in the area since they actually aren't located within that city's metro area. Of course, I realize that PSU is nowhere close to the Philly metro area either but sometimes just being within the same state and having a broader historical profile like PSU does makes it a bit different -- explained by why they are covered by an Inquirer beat writer). I do agree that media traction in southern NJ could remain limited for RU and thus difficult to break into the Philly media/area consciousness much.
I think they’ll be happy with RutgersAl 😎
Exactly… remember that poster with bulldog logo doesn’t like hijackers.
Besides the OP is worried about newspaper stories ruining Rutgers image or not promoting it. Physical newspaper business is nearly dead. If your a Rutgers fan like me in Philly the last place I look for RU news is the Inquirer online. The Philly TV media can't spell Rutgers. There are times when the New Brunswick market will get the RU game on ABC and Philly will have Penn State at the same time. Guess who gets better ratings. Just the fact's...
Drayton actually seems to be doing a good job at that program. They are scrappy and seem well coached these days.
Temple is a Pennsylvania Commonwealth school, and you want a paper based in Philly to treat the NJ State University located in Central New Jersey, about 75 minutes away as another team in the area? We also market ourselves as NY's team, do you think the people down here are stupid and don't realize we do that, how do you think the people down here feel about NY based teams?
Also, to be fair, Rutgers doesn't really try very hard to be a part of the South Jersey sports (or any other) scene. Being the state university isn't enough. Location, location, location...
