What you can expect from wyoming-football.com

The 2009 season is less than 48 hours from kicking off. And I’m thrilled.

It’s that time of year.

Football season…. finally!

I’ve been watching football in this state since 1993 and covering it as a media professional for the past five years, but this will be my first attempt at maintaining this particular blog. Hopefully, with your help, we can let people know about the memorable moments, top performers and awesome plays from every game, week to week, all the way up to November 13-14 in Laramie.

Here’s what you can expect from me here this season:

My weekly picks. I’ll be posting these every Thursday — sometimes early in the morning, sometimes just before midnight, but every Thursday. I’ve been doing this for four years now, entering my fifth, and I’ve been right just about 75 percent of the time. That means 25 percent of the time I’m wrong… so take solace in the fact that a quarter of the time I’m full of it. 🙂

My weekly recap. As usual, it’ll be chock full of odd insights, weird links and big slices of Humble Pie. Clearly, I’m not as plugged into the high school football scene as I was the past five years (although I WILL be attending at least one game a week), but I’ll be making every effort to post this sometime on Saturday. That said, if you went to a game, feel free to comment on this blog site and let me know how things played out — no matter what game you saw. I’m always interested — as are the folks who read and visit this site — to hear what happened around the state. In short: “Won’t you please, please help me?”

Newsbreaks. I’m trying to sort through the news so you don’t have to. Come here first for links to stories from media outlets statewide. If you know of a posted story that I might have missed, feel free to post the link in the comments section, or e-mail it to me (pschmiedt@yahoo.com) and I’ll post it.

Rants. Because, like you, I’m a fan. I love watching this sport, and I love writing about it. Sometimes I’m insightful. Sometimes I veer off course and end up posting Youtube links to Sesame Street videos…. But I’m passionate about Wyoming high school football, and I don’t mind sharing my thoughts with you.

And don’t forget about a couple other things you can do. You can become a fan of wyoming-football.com on Facebook, and you can also join the wyoming-football.com Flickr group and upload pictures and videos from the games you attend. All are welcome!

However, I will not be posting live scores or game recaps. You the fan can decide to do so through the comments section, but I’m leaving the live scores and recaps to the good folks who can get PAID to do this! 🙂 I will be posting scores weekly on the 2009 season page, which now has kickoff times for every game in weeks 1-8 and a nearly complete Week 0 schedule.

Anyway, the ride is almost set to begin. So strap in, hold on and don’t let go until we’re all together at The War in November.

–patrick