When the time comes to announce your college decision, it is not appropriate to make that announcement on a local TV station's live newscast UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO ATTEND A LOCAL COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY. That would include Pitt, Penn State, Duquesne or MAYBE West Virginia. You would not make that announcement on local TV if you were going to attend Gannon, Youngstown St. or UT-El Paso, would you? Believe it or not, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Syracuse are not local schools. Yes, your decision may be wonderful news for your family, high school or the college of your choice, but it's not prime time news for the Pittsburgh television market. If you want to appear on live TV, go to South Bend or Columbus. If you make the announcement at your home or high school and the local media cover it, fine; that's their call. But simply because a local TV station makes a poor decision about inviting you to a live newscast, doesn't make it a classy move.
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PS is not local. Pitt, Duquesne, Bobby Mo are local.
I agree, but also don't consider PSU and WVU to be local schools. I naively figured that since the kid was announcing on KDKA, perhaps he was going to pick Pitt. Fool me once...
Was it my imagination or did Pomp seem to have a odd look on his face after Hinnish pulled out the ND hat? Surely Pomp wasn't surprised by the choice.
Go Pitt.
The local print media consider PSU to be local because they cover them regularly, and Root Sports broadcasts a lot of WVU games.
Yes, but that does not mean they are local. For the life of me, I can never understand why they dont consider Ohio State local if they consider PSU and WVU local.
Give it a rest. Let them have their moment and try to enjoy that a kid like Hinish is getting the opportunity.
I agree. this was kind of cool with a very elite local prospect but it's being overdone here..
not a terrible question. I get psu since it's in state and all but wvu? Ok, it's close but I guarantee you more people in Pittsburgh care about tosu than wvu.. If you use the proximity angle, do you think a successful program in eastern ohio would be considered local? If Akron was relevant, would they be local?
Why do you call him angry because he is older, if indeed he is? It is not anger or hating, it is a difference in generations, their environments and how we were raised. The older generations lived before computers, internet, cell phones, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and all that other technology and social media. They were taught humility and keeping to themselves. I don't know if there is any truth to what I am about to say, but when you announce everything you do or say on the news and social media all it does is make you look like you are hungry or needy for attention. When you are taught humility, these things seem like the complete opposite of anything you were taught. That's all. He is not angry or hating, just responding on his beliefs. Is that a bad thing? Kids these days put so much of their lives out into the world for everyone to see that they open themselves up for all kinds of bad things to happen. And when they do happen, they can't figure out why it happened.
His entire premise is that it is ok if they attend Pitt or "local schools" but just not other schools. You are making an entirely different point.
It is just idiotic, misplaced anger. I bet he yells at clouds, too.
There was a high school kid a few years back out west who made his announcement on a local broadcast.. Problem is, the school never offered. The staff found out a few days after the broadcast..
WOW, this thread just got real.. good work drunk, we were all getting along better today, we needed some unnecessary drama to spice things up..
Look at this another way: What are the criteria that local TV stations use to invite an athlete to announce on their station? There are dozens -- if not hundreds -- of local high school students who will continue their athletic careers in college. Which ones will be invited on TV? All sports? Or only football? Both genders? Or only males? Will star ratings be considered? (As an aside, how many 3-star rated football players will play at the next level next year?) D-1 schools or any college or university? All high-schools? Or only those with storied football programs? Where does one draw the line?
Do WV fans consider Pitt to be a "local" school? NO. Do Steelers fans consider the Browns or Ravens "local" teams? NO. We need to treat WVU as a rival and not a local school. The hate us even if we don't play them in every sport.
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