@ELA has a future in this if he wants to reach for it.
I don't care to brag, and because we only built this place and I didn't man it, but this site is catching traction and being beat up on the indexes.... meaning- it's being found by the general masses whether they are joining or not. a lot of the stuff posted here is being read (and talked about) elsewhere. we're doing a helluva lot better just crossing the first year than i ever would have expected.
We need original writers. I swear to you, if I had the time (and 'time' is my most precious commodity) i'd take the material you guys discuss and carve it into articles that other sites and even broadcasters would kill for... (not really, but they'd absolutely syndicate them)... articles such as 'helmet schools- who are they' and even the 'coaching changes- what it means' would cast far and wide, and i've little doubt folks would come back for more. problem: i can't write worth a damn as y'all well know, which means all i'd do is destroy the value of the source.
and here is something that may as well be plopped here, that is serendipity or at least auspicious:
has anyone seen the NCAA's new promo? i didn't even think about it when i snatched up this domain name... i didn't even realize CFB would be celebrating 150 years until i saw the advert... but.... CFB is 150 years old, and the NCAA is in full out exploit mode with CFB150, to include cfb150.com (still under devel, but licensed under the NCAA)... this site's name will draw traffic from that with little doubt, but to hedge the bet some, i purchased a few minutes ago 'cfb-150.com' which i'll point here. that will also bring traffic.
right now we have a 25% bounce rate, meaning 25% of the folks who land on the page bounce out within 7 seconds. The average session's length is 12 minute's. these metrics mean little to me, but are heavily weighted by interwebz machinations.... this means we have a lot longer than most websites (a 'good' comparable site has a bounce rate of >60% and 3 minutes) to 'capture' users... we're doing exceedingly well with that... what we need, though, are folks who come here on purpose after they've initially found us.
we do that^ with original content... furthermore, whomever writes and presents will have an audience immediately, instead of scuttling around trying to find places to print or attempting to start their own blog or something... this is a special and rare opportunity for someone who wishes to contribute. atop that- i'll set whomever up with an account on the publisher and they can publish under a pen name if they wish, so as not to endure possible ridicule from us here (which is inevitable when offering opinion's).
for the time being, however, just having a good source of material such as specific writer's is a good thing.... and why i asked for them.
