By the way, it's pronounced PEA-vit-toe.
In case you didn't know.
To say we've been busy is like saying Joe Delaney was a good athlete.
The announcement of Coach Bradley Dale Peveto's return to NSU as our head football coach has generated tremendous interest -- and media exposure around the country.
The Peveto hire was one of the stories on this morning's ESPNRadio SportsCenter reports given every 20 minutes during the simulcast of the "Mike and Mike" show based in a New York City radio station, syndicated around the country on ESPN Radio (which, along with being on satellite services XM and Sirius, is carried as the primary programming by stations in many places nationally).
The news was also used on a "crawl" at the bottom of the screen last night and throughout this morning on ESPN, ESPN News, ESPN2 and ESPNU (and I presume ESPN Deportes!), reporting that LSU defensive coordinator Bradley Dale Peveto had been hired by us, and that he was our DC and linebackers coach from 1996-98.
I had friends in Boise who saw it and called me last night very impressed with the hire.
Give credit to associate SID Matt Bonnette for calling ESPN last night before he went home at 9:30 to be sure they were aware -- they already were tracking it from the New Orleans Times Picayune website, but the personal contact once again proved beneficial.
The story also ran on ESPN.com and in many newspapers and other sports websites around the country.
Obviously that level of coverage is quite rare for an FCS coaching hire; in fact, the crawl was twice as extensive as some FBS coaching hire announcements, and only BCS-level coaching hires typically get used on ESPNradio SportsCenter reports from my experience.
There's been tremendous coverage in all the major newspapers around the state today. The story ran on Page 1 of the Alexandria Town Talk - not only page 1 of the sports section, but page 1 of the paper.
Be sure to surf around and enjoy! See you Monday at 5 at the press conference introducing Coach Peve!
Doug Ireland, SID
