12-20-2011, 04:21 PM
Hi Everyone,
I know everyone has been waiting to find out what the final disposition of our website is going to be. Well, as of today it is official that both Rivals and 247 Sports have decided to not invite us aboard at this time.
The answer is simply that we don't currently have the numbers of fans that they desire to populate one of their sites. Eventually I'm sure that will happen as USA football grows and adds more South Alabama fans to the internet, but right now we're just not there.
With that in mind, we are having an independent site created that will be very similar to what we are used to from the Scout.com days. Hopefully we'll have it up and running in just a few more days, although it will certainly be getting tweaks for a while.
It will have a subscription-based system and an insider message board. The cost will be much cheaper than any of the networks, which is only fair since you won't have access to other information like you would with them. Those who have subscriptions with Scout will be given six-month subscriptions to the new JagsJungle.com as well.
The main purpose of the subscriptions/insider board is not to suck as much cash as possible from Jag fans, but to form a very limited group of people who will have a vested interest in not sharing information that is not for public consumption.
I appreciate everyone's patience and I'm sure that we can rebuild ourselves into an even better online community very quickly on the new site.
Stay tuned and we'll let you know when we're ready to begin receiving guests.
AtlantaJag
I know everyone has been waiting to find out what the final disposition of our website is going to be. Well, as of today it is official that both Rivals and 247 Sports have decided to not invite us aboard at this time.
The answer is simply that we don't currently have the numbers of fans that they desire to populate one of their sites. Eventually I'm sure that will happen as USA football grows and adds more South Alabama fans to the internet, but right now we're just not there.
With that in mind, we are having an independent site created that will be very similar to what we are used to from the Scout.com days. Hopefully we'll have it up and running in just a few more days, although it will certainly be getting tweaks for a while.
It will have a subscription-based system and an insider message board. The cost will be much cheaper than any of the networks, which is only fair since you won't have access to other information like you would with them. Those who have subscriptions with Scout will be given six-month subscriptions to the new JagsJungle.com as well.
The main purpose of the subscriptions/insider board is not to suck as much cash as possible from Jag fans, but to form a very limited group of people who will have a vested interest in not sharing information that is not for public consumption.
I appreciate everyone's patience and I'm sure that we can rebuild ourselves into an even better online community very quickly on the new site.
Stay tuned and we'll let you know when we're ready to begin receiving guests.
AtlantaJag