"All Access" rules.  Remember in Wayne's World when Garth and Wayne excitedly headed backstage at the Alice Cooper concert?  Well, it's also pretty cool in college basketball, too.  That's why I push our production teams on a weekly basis to get ACCESS. I challenge them to bring our viewers closer to the teams, the players, the coaches. CBS College Sports producers are always up for a hearty challenge, and recently, they've dared to go where no camera crew has gone before: The locker room LIVE at halftime.  And I gotta say, it's been pretty awesome.  Check out what happened when our crews got into Marshall's locker room:



Pretty sweet.  For that, I'd like to offer up a few accolades to to the people who've made segments like these happen….Here are my "In the Bonus":
 
Duquesne at Fordham Women’s Basketball on January 17th – Pre-game and Halftime Coaches speeches
Producer – Mike Molinari /  Director – Mark Ballard
 
Division II Men’s Basketball Bellarmine at Northern Kentucky on January 23rd: Coaches Microphones during the game
Producer – Jeff Strauss /  Director – David Newman
 
St Joe’s at Charlotte Women’s Basketball game on January 23rd – A Pregame speech with St Joe’s Head Coach Cindy Griffin
Producer –  Brian Williams  /  Director – Gary Nicholas
 
Memphis at Marshall Men’s Basketball game on January 27th – Clip Attached in this Blog (Live halftime inside Marshall’s coaches room & Locker room)
Producer – Steve Scheer /  Director – Andy Goldberg
 
Cincinnati at Louisville Women’s Basketball game on Feb 2nd:  A coaches corner segment with Louisville Head Coach Jeff Walz
Producer – Jonathan Segal  / Director – Andy Goldberg