Why I'm thankful for this site

[ATX89]

So I frequent a few other sites including 247 and OB.  Today OB announced the replacement for Chip.  I won't mention the name and don't remember it frankly, but the new hire has only covered the NFL, has most recently been in Detroit and was in Tampa prior to the Detroit gig.  I'm stunned that this hire has zero Texas ties, zero college football coverage experience, and the OB group think acts like the cure for Cancer has been discovered.  

That the ownership there is infatuated with radio and has people like Burton, Chip, Sean, Darrell and others moving onto or creating competing sites seems very telling to me.  The dilution of their coverage and the departure of truly strong posters to sites like these is a win for us and less than stellar for OBs in my opinion.  Their board software and server capacity is ANTIQUATED as well, but I guess some people dig misery. 

My subscription will run out eventually and not be renewed over there which is fine.  Stuff like today, with all the huge and ridiculous build up just cements my fondness for this site and what is to come. 

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Glad you're enjoying it here. Always feel free to chime in with suggestions.

 

[ATX89]

Thanks Matt and glad you are over here.  I remember your medical stuff and your battle with rehab etc. while you were at OBs.  Hope you are doing great now as that can be scary stuff no doubt.  

 

[texasdobbs]

I don't know about the other sites, because this was the first sports site that I joined. I will tell you this that I'm glad I took a chance on hornsport. ..

 

[monarch]

So I frequent a few other sites including 247 and OB.  Today OB announced the replacement for Chip.  I won't mention the name and don't remember it frankly, but the new hire has only covered the NFL, has most recently been in Detroit and was in Tampa prior to the Detroit gig.  I'm stunned that this hire has zero Texas ties, zero college football coverage experience, and the OB group think acts like the cure for Cancer has been discovered.  

That the ownership there is infatuated with radio and has people like Burton, Chip, Sean, Darrell and others moving onto or creating competing sites seems very telling to me.  The dilution of their coverage and the departure of truly strong posters to sites like these is a win for us and less than stellar for OBs in my opinion.  Their board software and server capacity is ANTIQUATED as well, but I guess some people dig misery. 

My subscription will run out eventually and not be renewed over there which is fine.  Stuff like today, with all the huge and ridiculous build up just cements my fondness for this site and what is to come. 

his name is anwar richardson.  he is an accomplished as well as award winning journalist, and current nfl hall of fame voter.  let us present the new guy a chance.. for there were many that just was not that all enthralled with chip brown (with all of his own personal accoutrements).  imo, all texas longhorn related websites, no matter how low capacity vs state of the art..  serve their purposes as per their own distinct patrons.  let us just be blessed and move forward.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

his name is anwar richardson.  he is an accomplished as well as award winning journalist, and current nfl hall of fame voter.  let us present the new guy a chance.. for there were many that just was not that all enthralled with chip brown (with all of his own personal accoutrements).  imo, all texas longhorn related websites, no matter how low capacity vs state of the art..  serve their purposes as per their own distinct patrons.  let us just be blessed and move forward.

 

[monarch]

i know, i know... maybe if he would have just autographed that poor kids item the other night at the game.. he wouldn't be sitting at this lonely bar, circling a stale drink with his lips perched like a guppy fish.  hey, like i said... i know!

 

[ATX89]

Monarch, I'm not trying to knock Anwar's accomplishments.  I'm sure he's a great guy and an accomplished journalist.   So was Chip.   Chip has a ballott for the Heisman voting. Chip absolutely got stuff wrong, but only because that was what his sources were providing him and once the info changed, he'd report it which is very similar to Darrell's work here.  Darrell is awesome and has awesome sources.  He is brave enough and willing to share that info with us once he has it, and he's brave enough to make some predictions based on that info.  If the info changes, Darrell lets us know asap and has no issues if it affects a previous prediction.

Everyone that Darrell and the HornSports team have added to this site have Texas ties, Texas sources, and have covered Texas Longhorn sports.  Frankly I could give 2 cents whether they've won any awards and I sure as heck could care less if they covered NFL teams in Detroit and Tampa.  That's not what I'm paying for and that absolutely doesn't move the needle for me.

Frankly Ketchum is already treating Chip like a rival and it's gotten petty rather quickly.  At some point, someone should take a look at the one constant involved in the OB departures, of which some were less than amicable over the years.  You have Burton,  Brown, Adams, Hamilton, Cotcher just to name a few.  You also have a crap load of very, very good posters no longer over there or very infrequently as well.  It's masked by the volume of subscribers, but when your one constant is your owner who is more infatuated with hearing his own voice on the radio than delivering a quality product it starts to get kinda humorous.  Co-mingle that with hiring someone who has absolutely zero ties or experience with the state of Texas much less the Horns and it's becoming comical.

Thankfully this site has it's bearings straight and isn't foolish enough to waste money or time on such an incompetent hire with regards to the market being covered.

 

[armadillo slim]

i thought it was a bit underwhelming hire, but the pandering responses of the sycophants were pretty predictable. he may turn out to be a great hire, but with no texas ties he starts out with not a lot of local credibility.  frankly, one of OB's greatest failings has been it's tendency to "bite the hand that has fed it" (i.e.  the university of texas).  i think there's really only one mod with any sort of real texas ties, so they treat the site like so many of the OB'ers do--as a pro team type site--and they usually pander to the loud minority while ignoring the mostly silent base.

i'm grateful to this site for that reason.  it recognizes that its basically built for UT fans.   

 

[ATX89]

i thought it was a bit underwhelming hire, but the pandering responses of the sycophants were pretty predictable. he may turn out to be a great hire, but with no texas ties he starts out with not a lot of local credibility.  frankly, one of OB's greatest failings has been it's tendency to "bite the hand that has fed it" (i.e.  the university of texas).  i think there's really only one mod with any sort of real texas ties, so they treat the site like so many of the OB'ers do--as a pro team type site--and they usually pander to the loud minority while ignoring the mostly silent base.

i'm grateful to this site for that reason.  it recognizes that its basically built for UT fans.   

100% agree Slim

 

[streettopeschel]

don't care. not on OB. next.

 

[armadillo slim]

don't care. not on OB. next.

one of your problems is that you just blabber on.  please try to be more succinct in the future.

 

[streettopeschel]

one of your problems is that you just blabber on.  please try to be more succinct in the future.

i'm the anti-cheese.