Following our meeting on Thursday, I’m still really interested in both of my story ideas but I’m worried about my personal connections in the horse business and that they might cause some interference. I think it could be a interesting story but I don’t want the lines to get blurred.
As for my other idea about the guarantees of the SEC with scheduling the big games. I obviously talked mostly about basketball and that’s what sparked my interest. But I could widen it to other sports or just focus on basketball. With this story, you said it would be a lot of phone work and I don’t mind doing that.
I want to focus on the pros and cons of scheduling these big games, but I want to address how a school decides to play another. Whether it’s for money reasons (Nichols State getting paid to come to here and play UGA football) or other reasons. With UNC / UK that’s been a long standing rivarly game in basketball and I’m interested why Roy Williams wanted to end that. I could try and contact UK and see how they feel about this change.
I think there will be a lot of numbers involved with this story and think I might need to use some graphics to help organize and show my facts more clearly.