Hello all -- I've taken over as the new publisher of the site here. I’m excited to get involved, introduce myself and lay out our vision.
First, some background. I graduated from the University of Maryland and started out in newspapers, working four years at the Kansas City Star, six years covering Coastal Carolina for the Myrtle Beach Sun News, two years covering the Florida Gators for a short-lived but fun site called SEC Country, and I’ve been the publisher of the USC Rivals site for four years now.
We had some natural attrition at other Pac-12 sites starting in January, and that prompted Rivals and I to have some discussions about the best way we could better grow our sites out West. We made the plan to pool the resources from a handful of sites (initially Oregon, Cal, Arizona and later UCLA and Washington), hire a full-time experienced, dedicated recruiting writer to lead our recruiting coverage for those sites, put a lot of resources into recruiting coverage in general and hire team reporters to lead our coverage on the ground, while I manage it all. I think the model has been very effective overall. The reality is really none of the Pac-12 sites, including the USC site, could afford a full-time recruiting writer of their own, so this created a great opportunity to grow recruiting coverage across the board.
Matt Moreno, who had been the publisher of our Arizona site, stepped into that Pac-12 recruiting reporter role for us and has been absolutely awesome. I’ll have him chime in here soon as well and better introduce himself, but basically, between Matt, myself and another versatile contributor Jeff McCulloch, we’re really at every notable recruiting event out west.
So the plan in a nutshell is to really maximize and hopefully elevate Washington State recruiting coverage through expanded staff and resources, and line up someone in Pullman for team coverage.
Please, hit me with any questions you have. Looking forward to interacting with everybody moving forward -- and growing this site in the months to come!
First, some background. I graduated from the University of Maryland and started out in newspapers, working four years at the Kansas City Star, six years covering Coastal Carolina for the Myrtle Beach Sun News, two years covering the Florida Gators for a short-lived but fun site called SEC Country, and I’ve been the publisher of the USC Rivals site for four years now.
We had some natural attrition at other Pac-12 sites starting in January, and that prompted Rivals and I to have some discussions about the best way we could better grow our sites out West. We made the plan to pool the resources from a handful of sites (initially Oregon, Cal, Arizona and later UCLA and Washington), hire a full-time experienced, dedicated recruiting writer to lead our recruiting coverage for those sites, put a lot of resources into recruiting coverage in general and hire team reporters to lead our coverage on the ground, while I manage it all. I think the model has been very effective overall. The reality is really none of the Pac-12 sites, including the USC site, could afford a full-time recruiting writer of their own, so this created a great opportunity to grow recruiting coverage across the board.
Matt Moreno, who had been the publisher of our Arizona site, stepped into that Pac-12 recruiting reporter role for us and has been absolutely awesome. I’ll have him chime in here soon as well and better introduce himself, but basically, between Matt, myself and another versatile contributor Jeff McCulloch, we’re really at every notable recruiting event out west.
So the plan in a nutshell is to really maximize and hopefully elevate Washington State recruiting coverage through expanded staff and resources, and line up someone in Pullman for team coverage.
Please, hit me with any questions you have. Looking forward to interacting with everybody moving forward -- and growing this site in the months to come!
