Luke and I made an announcement on the podcast yesterday, and judging from the responses, some of you probably heard it, some of you probably didn't, or some of you tuned it out before we were finished (in which case you missed some important parts). Anyway...
I am at the point where I'm working just about all the time, even though less of it is here. Between life's circumstances and that, it's limited what I am do.
At the same time, I take a great deal of pride in what we have created. It's a part of people's lives. We've had some people posting here for 20 years. We've probably put 40,000 hours into the site and the podcast. And I would hate to see that just go to waste. But we need help to maintain the standard of coverage we've provided most of the time (and ideally increase that) and that's just impossible to do right now.
And what I would like to do is pay Joey to work here 12 months a year, part time while he is in school, and then I have another person I'd like to hire part-time to help in addition to that. I'll keep that person's name private for now but it's a hire that would excite people.
To help fund this, we would like to create post-game shows, probably call-in shows, for football, baseball and basketball. What we can do will vary on what people will pay to support.
That in turn would help fund some extra written content--all three sports we cover, extra recruiting coverage, more podcasts, a budget for us to travel to Omaha, for road football games--that kind of stuff.
Or if you have an appetite to see something covered--men's golf, women's hoops, whatever--we'll consider that too if someone wants to underwrite it.
This would be a win-win for everybody but we can't do it without help. I would in turn make that sponsored content free so that we could reach a larger audience and serve a portion of the fan base that perhaps cannot
We are seeking sponsors who will help make this happen. Or if you can't be a sponsor, but would like to PLEDGE an amount to help towards that, we'll take that also.
I put "PLEDGE" in caps.
I do not want to take any money from anyone right now. I do not want to take a penny from anyone until I know I can put it back into the product. And so I want to spend the summer seeing what people have the appetite to fund and then decide what we can realistically do.
This is about using a community to create some fun, cool things that we can't do on our own, to dream together on that a bit, and maybe that haven't been tried before, and also to creating a path to having permanent stability and future opportunities, and specifically for Joey and people like him.
If you have interest in helping us, please reach out to
@Lukewyatt who is helping me with this.
And as always, thank you to all of you for your support.
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