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ITB College Football Podcast
As most of ya'll know by now I write on a blog called In The Bleachers and produce an in-season weekly podcast. A few of you have been in some of the contests we have run and I thank you for joining in and hopefully next year you (and more) will join.
When the blog first started it was just a tool to get more people to listen to the podcast. It has done a pretty good job getting us more listeners. Our first year in 2005 we had around 100-300 listeners per week when we were over at Smart Guys Sports. The second year when we moved to http://inthebleachers.net our listener ship doubled, and in 2007 we topped out at around 2000 downloads for one week of the podcast. This fall will be our 4th season and we are the longest running general football podcast on the internet. I am not sure if many of you read college football blogs, but the blog Every Day Should Be Saturday is probably the most popular college football blog out there getting 18,000 or more hits per day during the season. They run their own live podcast which is pretty popular. This year the College Football Bloggers and fans handed out awards in a lot of categories and best podcast was one of them. The In The Bleachers podcast finished as the 2nd best podcast on the internet behind EDSBS's podcast. Not bad at all in my opinion. So I want to take this time to thank anyone who has listened to the podcast or read the blog. And thanks to Charlie (Swaggs), Chris (EasyMac), and Ron (VTbub). Three people who are also directly responsible for where the podcast and the blog is today. #2 College Football Podcast on the Internet |
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03-03-2008, 12:45 PM | #2 |
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That's pretty damn awesome guys, GRATS!!!
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03-03-2008, 01:51 PM | #3 |
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Brian is being modest. He gets 1,000 readers a day on the site during the season. Just incredible work.
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03-03-2008, 01:55 PM | #4 |
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Congratulations to you guys.
Although none to you, bsak, if Pryor ends up at Penn State.
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03-03-2008, 02:01 PM | #5 | |
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Thanks! I still think he is going to Ohio State, but if Penn State would say that Tom Bradley will succeed Paterno, it might sway him. But if I were putting money down right now, it would be on the Buckeyes. |
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03-07-2008, 02:35 PM | #7 | ||
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If anyone last ESPN Insider...check out this blog post by Bruce Feldman...
http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog...=feldman_bruce If you don't here is a little snippet... Quote:
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03-07-2008, 03:01 PM | #8 |
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hey I never knew about this. I'll be checking it out now.
Also on the post/question you answered to ESPN. This is what got Dirk Koetter in so much trouble with the media regarding Wade. They thought that it should have only been handled by the school. I'm not saying one way is right or wrong just saying how the media will strike at you no matter what you do. |
06-04-2008, 06:06 PM | #9 |
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My latest blog post got picked up by Fox Sports!
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/8...-on-their-arms Too bad they spelled my name wrong! |
12-02-2008, 12:33 PM | #10 |
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I never thought blogging would get me this far but I got some good news today. ESPN has some affiliated blogs for teams where journalists write about that certain team. One is Bucknuts (www.bucknuts.com), well I got an email last week to sit in on a conference call with these guys today.
In the conference call they told me they want to start a Penn State site and wanted me to be their "featured" blogger. I'd be paid plus they put me in charge of naming the site. I never thought 4 years ago when Swaggs, VTbub, EasyMac, and I started In The Bleachers it would lead me to getting paid for this stuff. Crazy! |
12-02-2008, 12:39 PM | #11 |
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That's awesome! Congrats!
Though I am not really sure what this "college football" you write about is. It must be popular with so many readers and all. Sounds interesting.
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12-02-2008, 12:40 PM | #12 |
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Good for you Brian!
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12-02-2008, 12:45 PM | #13 |
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Congrats!!!
Now, tell me what your secret was.... |
12-02-2008, 01:03 PM | #14 | |
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12-02-2008, 01:08 PM | #15 | |
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Brian that is the shit bud!!!! A huge congrats goes out to you and your "guys" for all the hard work and dedication you have all put into it! Hope it continues to get bigger and bigger for ya as I look forward to watching it grow even more now |
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12-02-2008, 01:17 PM | #16 |
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Congratulations!
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12-02-2008, 01:51 PM | #17 | |
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Kick ass, grats Brian!~!! |
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12-02-2008, 02:25 PM | #18 |
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Awesome job Sak, congrats.
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12-02-2008, 02:47 PM | #19 |
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Badass!
That's awesome!!! /tk
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12-02-2008, 04:35 PM | #20 |
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12-02-2008, 08:28 PM | #21 |
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That's awesome. Congrats.
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12-02-2008, 08:57 PM | #22 |
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Thanks guys. I appreciate it!
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12-02-2008, 09:03 PM | #23 |
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Great job, DR. SAK.
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