Seeking your opinion

[StlVUFan]

Folks,

When Valpo joins the Horizon League next year, I am tentatively planning to do for Horizon League fans what I currently do for Mid-Con fans: a news blog. I would like to guage the level of interest, but mostly find out if someone is already doing this exact thing or not (I don't want to duplicate effort).

I invite you to visit All Things Mid-Continent to see exactly what I'm talking about. I've been doing that blog for a couple of years now. The stats I keep on visits are not exactly legendary, but I do average anywhere from about 60 to 100 visits a week. At a minimum, I collect up links to all the on-line news articles I can find on anything related to any of the Mid-Con teams and post the links on a daily basis. These can be from commercial and University newspapers, national sports websites, University athletic websites, not only of Mid-Con teams but those of non-conference opponents just after one of our teams plays them. During the conference portion of the schedule, I also try to list the schedule on a weekly basis, with links to each school's webcast(s), current sagarin ratings, and down the stretch I try to analyze the seed tiebreaker situations, listing standings and games remaining.

I haven't thoroughly scoured the HL fan boards, etc, but I've flitted about for some time now, and I haven't run across anything that has that level of effort. The HL website has a listing of all the newspapers that cover the HL, along with its own news articles about the teams, and it looks better than the similar page on the Mid-Co website, but so far I haven't seen where I'd be merely duplicating what someone else is doing.

If I'm wrong about that, please clue me in and I will check it out.

In any event, my other question to all concerned: is this something you would be interested in seeing, or do you think it would be a waste of time? Please try to check out the blog I'm currently doing before you answer that.

I know I can do this if I want to anyway, and I do enjoy doing it, but am I am interested to know whether I'd be adding any real value or not.

Thank you for your attention, and good luck this season.

[famouspnthrfan]

I think that would be great and very informative. To have a horizon league blog would be great since we don't formally have one. Your Mid-con blog is very well done and I think it would be great for Horizon league fans..

[SRT4driver]

I've visited your Mid-Con blog from time to time, and must say I would love to see you transfer your talents for informative blogging over to a Horizon League one. Do it.

[brewtownbrian]

I think that the value you speak of will be determined once you start the blog. At this point though...I think it'd be a great idea. I visit the Horizon League website a couple times a week to find out about the other games and teams.

Best of luck!

[uwmpanther2005]

StlVUFan, I think this would be a great idea, and I think a great many fans across the HL would agree. Anything you could do to drum up discussion and keep people informed of HL developments would be a huge asset to the league, especially as it slowly begins to become the BIG-mid-major conference it was destined to be. I really hope you decide to do this, and look forward to news about the project and other input from HL fans. Thanks for blogging.

[BBFran]

Sounds like a great idea. I'm excited to have Valpo join the league; it was a great addition.