Why did The Cats' Pause moves its site from Rivals to 247?
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sometimes I remember there's a board on scout, been years since I checked it
I used to lurk there, but I'd also forgotten about it. One message board per subject is about my limit and I liked here better.
They chased the money........ 247 offered a more lucrative deal. I cant say if they made a mistake for 100% certain because we cant see their revenue from ads or subscribers but one has to think its less ...
Sometimes its not best to follow the quick buck.... they thought we'd all follow them there and underestimated how set in our ways humanity is... take for example... carls jr bought hardees and its the same food... changed the name out here in the midwest from hardees to carls jr and they lost money... changed it back to hardees and back to business as usual... creatures of habit is what we are.. so take that into consideration if you ever have to make a decision that deals with consumers like that.
Sometimes its not best to follow the quick buck.... they thought we'd all follow them there and underestimated how set in our ways humanity is... take for example... carls jr bought hardees and its the same food... changed the name out here in the midwest from hardees to carls jr and they lost money... changed it back to hardees and back to business as usual... creatures of habit is what we are.. so take that into consideration if you ever have to make a decision that deals with consumers like that.
CBS sport which owns 247 bought Scout sometime ago. The scout boards and the 247 boards are on the same platform now and have basically been merged together. For example if the Louisville scout site and 247 site are now one site.
My understanding was that it was not The Cat's Pause' decision to leave the Rivals network, it was Rivals deciding they simply didn't need The Cat's Pause anymore. Hence, Cat's Illustrated. However, my memory may not be 100% on this.
Oh yes, the classic strawman.
I never said at all they couldn't make money (on things like their yearbook and ads on their webpage and such; the way it'd normally be done) but charging people just to post or make topics on their forum is crossing the fine and is just plain tacky. Imagine if for some reason this forum got the same idea...where would us UK fans go?
I don't think it's Darrell Bird. I thought his name was Brett (or something to that effect)
You're right, that's Brett Dawson. According to his Twitter bio Darrell Bird is still GM of Cats' Pause.
Yep, the old layout/interface of Cats Pause was better. I liked being able to see the star rating of incoming Football/Basketball recruits to the lower left corner instead of having to navigate to it.
You're thinking of Brett Dawson, our former publisher who know covers the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans.
No he's not.
That's Brett Dawson.
Bird still works for TCP.
Dawson permabanned me from here in 2011 for drunkenly dog-cussing the fellowship of the miserable after the road loss to Arkansas.
I actually joined TOS before I joined this site. In my mind, the turning point came after the 2015 FF loss to Wisconsin. Following that loss, a whole bunch of cretins from other fan bases come to the 247 board to dog UK and our fans. If you're familiar with their up/down voting, some of these other posters ended up with 30+ up votes per post, and UK posters ended up with -20+ down votes.
Following that debacle and the outcry from UK posters that followed, they soon pretty much shut off the ability to post to paying members only. You can't even start your own thread like you can here. About the only way I can ever post on there anymore is on a thread started by one of the mods, and even that is hit or miss.
There are posters and mods over on TOS that I like and respect, but they are pretty much in a death spiral. Why should I pay money to post in a ghost town. All that being said, I have been pretty happy with the Rivals site 99% of the time, which is pretty damn good.
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