Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which will not change. Not sure what to tell you about the new blog. For those of you who like it, I wish I could say I had some say in what’s transpired. For those of you who do not approve, hey, I had nothing to do with it!
It was as much of an out-of-the-blue surprise to you as it was to me. I woke up Tuesday, went to work, checked back on the blog and the comments and saw some grumbling. I had no idea what you were talking about, because I work in the blog’s dashboard and the preview function doesn’t often lead me to the main page.
Anyhow, they’re trying make all the blogs uniform, and we were using a template here that predated the July merger of the two newspapers. So on a Tuesday morning eight months later, things changed. They’re still working through some kinks and knots and have cured a few already — like updating the RSS feeds on the side menu so you can quickly find WVU stories and my columns for the first time since the merger. Progress!
Keep the constructive commentary going. They’re reading, and they’ve spotted a few complaints and explained the issues to me. I believe they’re working on a fixes for the obvious stuff and then the subtle stuff, so give it some time and understand I want it to work for everyone.
Case in point: Blog title and subhead. You’ll notice “WVU Sports with Mike Casazza” up top and then some space below it before the headline of the latest entry. WVUSwMC is the title and the space beneath is for a subhead. Here’s where I need you.
- Do we keep the title or replace it with something different? (I feel weird changing a title after almost — yikes — nine years, but I can change. I wouldn’t mind if they just fixed the presentation so “WVU Sports with Mike” isn’t one one line and “Casazza” is alone on another). If so, suggestions, please.
- We do need a subhead, which is just a line to complement the title. It can be a quote, a phrase, a saying, an idiom, a haiku, you name it, but I think it should be part of our fabric here. I know you’ll have ideas, so this should be fun, but I’m already partial to “Felt good when I let it go…” It’s a leader, but by no means does that make it the winner.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, keep it moving.
The 25314 said:
The NFL.com scouting report on Karl Joseph says, “Doesn’t have desired thickness of frame for the ruckus he likes to bring as a hitter.”
It’s the greatest scouting report ever. “Desire to assail leads to occasional technique breakdowns as a tackler.” It’s also been updated recently. I attempted to settle our quasi-controversy at pro day when I talked to some personnel people. No one said he was small. A few said he could be bigger. “Guys smaller than 5-10, 210 and who aren’t as good have played in the league.” So, that settled nothing.
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