Eighteen years.
That’s how long this site, at least in its earliest iterations, has been online.
I first posted the framework for what would become wyoming-football.com online in early 2005 and officially moved it to this URL in mid-2006.
I was just over 23 years old when I started the site. I’m now 41. And my life has changed in significant ways in the past 18 years.
When I started, wyoming-football.com was a repository of historical information. It still is, but it’s grown into much more than that.
The problem with growth is that it requires time and energy.
At 41, I no longer have the time or the energy to run the site as I have the past several years. After some serious thinking, I have decided to return wyoming-football.com to its roots as a repository.
Don’t worry: The site will stay. What will change is how much time and energy goes into doing live work on social media and on the site in real time on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays during the season.
Two big changes are forthcoming this fall.
First: Live updates to the site will end. Instead, the season’s scoreboard page and standings will be updated once a week, probably each Sunday during the season. Team pages will no longer be updated weekly with results. Meanwhile, one big bulk update will continue to come at the end of each season for updates to team pages, similar to what I do with champlists.com and wyoming-basketball.com.
Second: Social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook will stay, but I will not use them for live score updates during the season.
Other activity you see on the site right now will continue, albeit some things may change slightly.
On The HQ — the blog where you’re reading this right now — weekly blog posts with picks will continue during the season. I will also likely post less frequently, although hopefully more thoughtfully, during the offseason, and I will stop doing individual posts for each coaching change that takes place during the offseason.
I won’t stop research, or accepting tips on research, on information from games that are missing it, or seasons where coach information is missing. That work will continue, but at my own pace, on my own time.
I will continue to produce the annual preview magazine, as long as its sponsors and the publisher want to continue doing so.
However, another edition of “A Century of Fridays” will likely never be made. Better get the latest edition while you can.
A HUGE thank you to those of you who were willing to support me over the past 13 years when I asked for the financial support necessary to maintain this site, whether through a book purchase, a page sponsorship or a Ko-fi donation. And another huge thanks to those who have helped support the site with your time and energy researching — and sharing — details about the sport and state we all love. Page sponsorships will continue as long as the sponsors are willing.
That said, I have other things I also want to do with my life, and for the first time in 18 years, I feel ready to devote my time and energy to those things, too — at least on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoons in the fall.
–patrick
Totally understand. This is such an awesome tool. Thanks for everything Patrick, and I have to admit, since getting out of radio three years ago, having my Friday nights in the fall to myself and family, is AWESOME. Enjoy it!!!
I can understand. It’s too bad that soon there will be no reliable media in wyoming to provide live scores anymore. your reasons are respectable, wyopreps is circling the drain, and who knows whats going on at the star tribune. Times have changed