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Post by hiller 87 on Feb 15, 2012 21:04:02 GMT -6
once again I'd be down for helping in any way possible, one idea I had (McCarthy might have helped me on this, not sure) is we could do like a "Top 5 players" or a "top 5 catchers" or a "top 5 scariest players", "top 5 home court advantages", some kind of top 5 every week. I think it'd be a cool touch. You could have a different person do it every week, or a core group of writers.
another thing that I'd suggest would be to put new content down in the section of the site that right now has "Josh Raymer's World" (no offense Josh) because that hasn't been updated in a while. We can still call it Josh Raymer's World or whatever but something new should go down there.
another thing I'd like to see is a list of past Ballers of the Month, possibly a write up of why they deserve it (I can do this), and to archive the stories that have been written (the archive section on the main page only goes back to last summer).
just a few of my suggestions, and I can help with them if people want them to happen.
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Post by mccarthy55cmu on Feb 15, 2012 22:59:18 GMT -6
Hiller's da man!
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Post by Zigmister on Feb 16, 2012 0:39:11 GMT -6
I started a baller of the month history page shortly after i put up kyle this past weekend; resizing the pictures and sorting out a time frame for those. Up soon i estimate.
I'm resorting the 'links to remember' and probably moving them into the bottom right box. and social media links to a new left box. Haven't nearly made a dent on organizing all of Raymer's old content, i stalled somewhat because i started work on a template and what cms i'd end up using.
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Post by Zigmister on Feb 16, 2012 0:41:30 GMT -6
Hey, i really like the idea of the best courts of the NCDA member-teams.
We can include home court / crowd advantages in the individual section, but i'd also like to see thoughts on the structure of the court, how it effects play, ease of parking/travel, general atmosphere, to name a few points.
Hiller if you want to start there, i think it would be a really cool multi part article if we included a lot of different courts. We could include interviews or written sections from different people on courts they have played at, maybe even include rebuttals from the home team. I for one would be interested in what people have to say about the Ray. I know somebody that has a hard on for OSU's one boxed in court. I'm a little excited.
I don't want to push you into the position of head editor on this article, but if you want to its yours. I wouldn't mind editing it all together if i had the content. I just don't have the time to contact people to interview or get them to write something up. I wouldn't mind editing if you didn't want to handle it.
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Post by hiller 87 on Feb 16, 2012 9:43:00 GMT -6
that is something I can do, if people want to help with interviews and such.
I'll try to cover all the main gyms (SVSU's Ryder Center, GVSU's Fieldhouse, MSU's Sports Arena, the Ray, whatever JMU calls their home court, WKU, UK, basically all the schools that host tournaments) and do a write up of the following:
-how the court plays (i.e. are there nets behind the courts (like GVSU's Fieldhouse), a nook (ala the Ray), straight up walls (Ryder Center, Sports Arena) -home court advantage -amount of courts available in the facility
probably some misc. stuff too. if anyone has any ideas on what else they'd like to see, let me know. I'll try and throw out a court a week, starting with the Ryder Center.
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Post by mtrip8 on Feb 16, 2012 11:12:06 GMT -6
try to ask around for the teams records at home so you could get a cool stat in there
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Post by jakeochoa3 on Feb 16, 2012 16:55:56 GMT -6
dont forget the solheim center
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Post by tk2 on Feb 18, 2012 9:14:10 GMT -6
yeah doing a write up on the home courts where teams play would be a nice idea. pictures would be a good touch as well. is one person going to write about all of them or do you need each team to submit something?
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Post by Zigmister on Feb 20, 2012 11:53:35 GMT -6
if you want to write, talk to Hiller to see if he needs something or to give your piece on a particular court. For instance, DePaul (I offered to the team but will probably end up being me) is writing about MSU's courts and I'm throwing in some for Moody's Solheim for the kicks.
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Post by hiller 87 on Feb 20, 2012 12:01:54 GMT -6
yes, help would be awesome considering I haven't played at the following arenas (at least not in a while)
UK Louisville Moody JMU Maryland Kent State
probably a few others that I can't think of right now. But yes, help would be awesome. My goal is to put at least one of these out a week
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Post by ryanmenn on Feb 27, 2012 23:31:59 GMT -6
Is there anywhere to locate a list of all the past winners of nationals? Cause if not i feel like that should be needed.
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Post by Zigmister on Feb 28, 2012 0:03:34 GMT -6
Is there anywhere to locate a list of all the past winners of nationals? Cause if not i feel like that should be needed. There will be a division of the site dedicated to Nationals, which serves as a portal both to the way the tournament is traditionally run, past results as full as I can compile them, et al. It will also show the specific Nationals mini-sites that were created for Nationals 2011 & this year's 2012. From what we're working on, here is a preliminary map of content: index teams ---msu ---moody ---etc >forum results ---current (gdoc) ---past results >video youtube account past articles nationals ---nationals2011 ---nationals2012 rules contact map schedule baller of the months
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Post by ryanmenn on Feb 29, 2012 20:10:07 GMT -6
fyi on the homepage the date for nationals is wrong.
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Post by hiller 87 on Mar 20, 2012 8:44:23 GMT -6
Finally got the first wave of home court write ups done (SVSU for hosting Nationals 2012, MSU since I've played most of my games here) and currently working on Depaul and BGSU. Anyone have any requests for the batch of courts after that? Or does anyone want to give their opinion on any courts? If so lemme know.
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Post by Spencer Jardine - SVSU on Apr 18, 2012 14:14:07 GMT -6
Would it be possible to get the website updated with the scores from the tournament and the National Champs on the front page?
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