MGoBlog Relationship With The Athletic?
Listening to the latest Ace Podcast mention was made of a new relationship with The Athletic. This is the first I've heard of it though maybe it was discussed while I was out to lunch (which covers the greater part of my day). Anybody out there got any details?
[Ed-Seth: They're sponsors and we're going to look at different ways of collaborating down the road because we think they're awesome. See: https://mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-slippery. We also have a code: if you go to http://theathletic.com/mgoblog when you sign up you'll get 40% off]
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Just want to add another recommendation for The Athletic. It's everything a sports journalism website should be: clean presentation of original journalism, no fluff, no ads, no clickbait. I've been loving it.
October 23rd, 2019 at 3:29 PM ^
It's complicated
October 23rd, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
A lot of ins and outs, plus a few what have yous
October 23rd, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
I find the content on The Athletic to be very general and generic. The detail of the content here blows it away. To each his own I suppose, but I don't click on the Athletic much at all anymore. Even it were free, I would hardly ever venture over to it.
October 23rd, 2019 at 7:17 PM ^
To me, it all depends on the beat writers. I obviously read Quin and Baumgartner for Michigan, but I don't love the beat reporters for a couple other teams I follow, so I go other places for those teams' coverage.
In general, I think there's a certain baseline quality for Athletic writers that other websites don't have (or aren't permitted to display bc of their employer).
October 23rd, 2019 at 9:53 PM ^
You are right, it is generic. But it fills a need for no frills factual content that we used to get from SI and before that the newspaper.
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
Fort Walton Beach?
Oh, you mean friends with benefits. Kind of like MeanJoe07 with a target on his back.
I would rather call it an incestuous relationship.
October 23rd, 2019 at 5:05 PM ^
c'mon now. My mother broke it off with MeanJoe07.
October 23rd, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
I pay for the athletic mostly because it was dirt-cheap when I signed up, but...I've been underwhelmed by their coverage. It's not bad or anything, but it's a bunch of newspaper writers who now went to a new version of a newspaper with fewer word count requirements. It's still a lot of, I don't know, access journalism and surface-level analysis. There are some good writers there by all means, but the level of analysis there isn't close to the type of stuff I look for in sports coverage (e.g. I think it's interesting that Bill Connelly went to ESPN and not The Athletic, and The Ringer has been pumping out some decent work recently regarding the NBA that is at least as good as you get from your average Athletic writer).
Anyway, I don't much care how Brian gets paid (I've been been giving beveled guilt payments for a long time now) and I'm happy if The Athletic partners with them, but I think The Athletic needs them way more than MGoBlog needs the Athletic.
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
i follow SpaceCoyote, Dan Orlovsky, and a few others in Twitter because they can explain what happened and why in a certain play. Journos generally aren’t equipped to do that.
None really have overly impressive writing chops.
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:11 PM ^
I assume this is to develop the Punt/Counterpunt brand
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:21 PM ^
Conscious uncoupling.
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:26 PM ^
UMBig11 crushes Yoder today and it was quickly deleted. Yoder took that shit down so fast! Yoder is a thief of his and others on the inside.
October 23rd, 2019 at 10:02 PM ^
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
lol
but in all seriousness I don’t see this anywhere?
October 23rd, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
Nick is great. The rest are meh.
October 23rd, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
Athletic is a really good site if you follow a lot of sports/teams/ if you just follow M football, you are ok to just stick with M Go Blog, but I don't think you will feel let down for $5/month either way. They have the long-form, human interest stuff that is, while certainly not quite the SI weekly stuff in its heyday (I would acutally read about things that happened a week ago), is more timely and still a really good read - I will often read them about teams/sports I do not even follow because the writing is good. Their team-specific coverage guys are excellent for the teams that I follow and it is a great combo of notes, analysis and old fashioned sports journalism. For the teams, that I follow they have a beat writer type, paired with a more in-depth guy (for M it would be Meek and Baumgardner) I also like their fantasy football team as an added bonus.
October 23rd, 2019 at 6:13 PM ^
I think all free sites on the internet will be coming to an end in the next several years!
October 23rd, 2019 at 9:02 PM ^
Uh-oh.
October 23rd, 2019 at 6:18 PM ^
Wait, doesn't there need to be a conclave of MGoBlog users to make this kind of change? It's in the unwritten MGoCharter.
October 23rd, 2019 at 9:32 PM ^
The charter is actually named the MGoMagnaCarta. It remains unratified as the site owners refused to show up at Runnymede.
October 24th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
The relationship? Purely platonic.
October 24th, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
Anyone listen to The Lead, a podcast by The Athletic? It’s actually pretty good. Check out the 10/8 report on UNC’s concussion research problem.