Citing the current economic situation, the Southern Conference has decided to cancel media-day for the up-coming football season...
Like most everyone, the Southern Conference is reacting to the tight financial times capturing the nation’s attention. The league announced several cost-saving efforts that include the elimination of the preseason media days that normally would be held before the 2009 football season and the 2009-10 basketball season. Also, the SoCon will not print media guides and will cutback on staff travel to games.
So they'll only publish the media guides as downloadable .pdf's?
Did they figure that one out on their own, or hire a consultant.
Considering we're talking about the SoCon here, I'm sure that several individual think tanks were involved in the cost-savings initiative. I'm sure that everyone was looking forward to visiting Birmingham during August, so this is a big kick in the crotch for all the humidity-loving fans of SoCon schools.
