Discrimination

[DanielPhipps]

Question : If football is in-season because of spring practice, wouldn't that make girls' soccer, volleyball, and golf in-season too (or even basketball - they have spring-sumemr practice)??? Either open up the other boards that are in-season with football or lock football up. That's discrimination against the smaller sports. If you want more people to sign up for + memberships, then take away something they want. That's the only reason many people use this site anyway, is to chat about football. And if it's open year-round because it's in-season, most people won't see a need to pay any money.

[ELA]

Daniel... we are in transition between the old CoachT and the New CoachT. Everyone will adapt but it is always difficult to make adjustments to new things. I appreciate your opinion but we all hope you will join us in our extended CoachT family. It only costs $12.00 and you can get all the benefits of membership.

 

Coach Thompson's website has grown beyond what he can deal with on a part time basis. He was losing so much money trying to upgrade the server just to handle the amount of traffic. He had one of three choices:

 

1. Sell the site to someone who would have raised the prices anyway.

 

2. Continue to lose money and eventually close the site.

 

3. Chance upsetting some people and make some changes to increase revenue to the break even point with hopes of turning a small to modest profit down the road when he retires from teaching.

 

We discussed these changes for over a month and this seemed to be the best choice. I hope all of you will understand and join us in time. By leaving the "in-season" sports available for free, and all of the scoreboard and sports stories, we thought it would continue to draw those who wanted to be a casual CoachT.com fan while offering many nicer features for people who would be willing to offer a very modest amount of money to keep the "doors open."

Edited May 5, 2003 by ELA

[DanielPhipps]

Ok, did Coacht give that to you to copy and paste into every single post you make? I'm seeing that several times on here, and it's even worse than the back handed not-really-answering-your-question answer that a politician would give.

 

Let me make myself clear ONE MORE TIME: I understand the pay policy. I am NOT an idiot. I think paying for use of this website is a great idea. I have ALWAYS thought it was a great idea. I fully understand the financial obligations that coacht is under. I fully support Mr. Thompson being able to provide for what he does on this website -- he IS a teacher, and teachers don't have wads of cash to hand out.

(Please notice the overbearing, fed-up sounding sarcasm in the aformentioned thoughts.)

 

BUT, my question has NOTHING to do with all of this. What I want to know is how one justifies the football forum being open when other in season fall sports are not. In my opinion, Football should not be opened until the beginning of August when the season truly does start. And for the sake of coacht better supporting this website, Football SHOULD be closed until August, because it is such a popular thread. By closing Football more people will desire a + membership to talk about Football when no one is actually playing football.

[CoachT]

ELA: I appreciate the help today.

 

DanielPhipps: Football is available now because of spring practice, AND the all-star game to be played this summer, AND the fact that football is the next major sport to be in-season. Therefore, I kept it open as a bonus to those fans and nothing else.

 

The reasons for everything is in the Announcement thread.

[ELA]

Daniel... we're just trying to let people know about the changes! I'm sorry if I offended you, I'm just trying to explain things to a lot of people who have doubts or questions.

[iamoz]

What I want to know is how one justifies the football forum being open when other in season fall sports are not.

Why grill someone for trying to be nice by bending the rules in your favor?

[DanielPhipps]

I'm not grilling. This is absurd. I give up. Goodbye. . .