The MEAC is searching for national anthem singers and halftime entertainers for the 2010 MEAC Basketball Tournament. So conference officials opened up the opportunity for local talent to show their stuff at auditions yesterday in Winston-Salem.
The hopefuls included dance groups, a trio of singers, two of whom played ukuleles; and a singer doing a tribute to Michael Jackson. A violinist auditioned for the national anthem.
One of the largest groups was 48 members of the drum line, dance team and cheerleaders from Aycock Middle School in Greensboro….
Sonja Stills, the assistant commissioner of MEAC, said that the tournament officials wanted to get the community involved.
“We want the community to come out,” she said. “This is our way to connect to the community.”
Now, don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing wrong with connecting to the local community. But it seems to me the MEAC would’ve been better served trying to connect with its disinterested student bodies at its member schools. Perhaps facilitating an intramural, 3-3 basketball championship with teams from every institution? Maybe the same kind of entertainment contest, but with students from every school having the opportunity to send in YouTube videos for fans around the world to vote on the top five or ten acts?
And these ideas I came up with in the five minutes it took for me to write this post. For free. Surely the folks paid an annual salary by the conference can do a little bit better than this to create more positive ties to the MEAC and its basketball product.
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