🏈 Is Bleacher Report starting to turn the corner, again, in their story content?

[TerryP]

The ebb and flow of web sites...

When BR first started it was a pretty solid site offering some good insight. Their staff did their due diligence bringing in guys from individual sites that weren't all about fantasies and smack driven drivel.

After about two years it went downhill at a torrid pace. As we witnessed, anyone could register and write. We ended up with a lot of fan driven content, which is a good thing, and a lot of fanatical perspectives from some of those fans, a bad thing.

Since Turner bought them out a couple of years ago they've been changing. Barrett Sallee, like him or not, was a well known commodity for college football. Now, they've added a Bama guy.

I'll give their Bama coverage another look with Walsh providing content. He's been a good one for Bama, for years.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Bleacher Report is pleased to welcome Christopher Walsh, <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimsonWalsh">@CrimsonWalsh</a>, to the Alabama CFB beat!</p>&mdash; Bleacher Report CFB (@BR_CFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/BR_CFB/statuses/449269406229860352">March 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[riz]

Syndicated. All I'm saying.

 

[TerryP]

Syndicated. All I'm saying.

I'm not sure what you're implying, riz. All I'm saying is say more...

Walsh left his position with BOL within the last month. He may have enough income stashed so he can work on more books, but I don't see him working for any other news outlets now.

 

[psychojoe]

I am not sure what it says for them, but in their earlier days I did a few articles for them.

 

[TerryP]

I am not sure what it says for them, but in their earlier days I did a few articles for them.

I still get notifications on the articles you put together about the Goode family...still getting views.

 

[psychojoe]

That was a lot of fun.

 

[PhillyGirl]

They've certainly been on a roller coaster of content. You could definitely notice the changes. I think it's improving again.

 

[planomateo]

Bringing back an old thread.

 

[TerryP]

“If you ask people in the industry, nobody is thinking Bleacher Report is a bunch of bloggers anymore,” he added.

A little ironic reading this article this morning ... I've been doing a little work outside while listening to LeBatard and his first hour was centered around LeBron and content from BR.

I do wonder how much they're paying a guy like Walsh as compared to what he was making when he was writing/covering the Tide exclusively.

 

[Tidestalker]

I've found the BR articles fairly interesting over the years... Never took it too seriously, but every now and then they put out some interesting Bama content.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I don't mind BR. But, I take most what they say with a grain of salt.

 

[252BAMA]

Should change the name. Too much baggage with BR.