DK_Barons

I started writing this almost 24 hours ago and got distracted by something. I opened this browser today and see it sitting here.... That's quite literally the story of my last month or so in an example.

There are teams to support and bills to pay. It's (past) time to pay the bills. I try to run this site on a July 1st to June 30th fiscal year, so I'm a lot late this year. Our average monthly budget is a little over $300, plus we ran a deficit for the last two years. I have covered the shortage myself to the tune of more than $2000. I'm going to leave the target goal this year at $ 4,000. Let's see if we can achieve it this season. We have managed to run this site on crowdfunding for more than 20 years. That goes back to before crowdfunding was even a coined term. We thank you all for your donations and your passion for the sport. Once again, there is now a new Booster group available. The old group is now exposed to the ads on the site. To be placed in the Booster 2024-25 group and have the ads hidden from view until July 1, 2026, make a donation of $40 or more anytime this fiscal year, and we will manually process your donations as fast as life allows us. (And don't worry, anyone who made a donation since July 1, 2025, will be credited accordingly. Just give us time to process it.) Thank you for all your past and your continued support of the Gridiron Digest.

It all started with an OS upgrade that went wrong. The drive's boot files were corrupted and wouldn't reboot.

We still have all sorts of errors that you guys don't get bothered with popping up that I'm chasing. After I get the server's configuration all set up for our purposes, I will work on setting up the new booster group for this year. I'm glad you guys are all still here and enjoying yourselves.

After a very long night (it's not after 4:00 a.m.) We are back. More to do, but we are functional, enjoy. More from me after I get some sleep. ...g'night, DK

The new transfer policy is here, whether we like it or not. Please be mindful that these players are still kids. From day 1 when TA created the first iteration of the forum and through this day, attacking kids is unacceptable. People may not like that a particular player has transferred to a school, regardless of the reasoning. Some of these transfers are bound to get some people upset, or even angry. There might even be rumors of coaches recruiting a given player. That is the kind of thing that falls under the rumor policy (when talking about a particular player and/or a particular coach) in place here. Have evidence? Report it. There are avenues to dealing with those things. Bottom line is please keep things clean; stick to the facts. Have a link with a kid that is transferring and where? Fine; that can be posted. But the "I heard..." is still not appropriate or acceptable here.

I think everyone has been updated as of this posting. If I missed you, send me a note, and I'll take care of it. Thank you all.

Thanks guys, I got the first round of you all promoted. Enjoy, we appreciate you all. The ads I use have gotten rather ridiculous. I leave them turned on for me so I can keep an eye on them.

It's that time again. A new year is upon us. There are teams to support and bills to pay. Once again, there is now a new Booster group available. The old group is now exposed to the ads on the site. To be placed in the Booster 2024-25 group and have the ads hidden from view until July 1, 2025 make a donation of $40 or more anytime this fiscal year, and we will manually process your donations as fast as life allows us. Thank you for all your past and your continued support of the Gridiron Digest.

Sorry about the down time. I was upgrading everything in preparation for a new season and things went south. It really wasn't a major deal, but if took me a couple hours of reading to see what had changed in the new version of mySQL to fix the issue. I just had to add a line to the config file because the new version requires it although all the previous versions did not. Carry on, back to the football discussions.

There is way too much information on the inductees page. Or way too many photos I should say. On a gigabit internet connection at school it is one of the slowest loading sites I've visited in a long time. They really need to index it into many pages broken up by the alphabet. It doesn't need to be a page for every letter (maybe some), but it can't be one single continuous page. . It looks really nice but it has some issues.

Venmo is...

You got it. ...just quick to ask questions. 🙂

It's (past) that time again. A new year is upon us. There are teams to support and bills to pay. Once again, there is now a new Booster group available. The old group is now exposed to the ads on the site. To be placed in the Booster 2023-24 group and have the ads hidden from view until July 1, 2024 make a donation of $30 or more anytime this fiscal year, and we will manually process your donations as fast as life allows us. Thank you for all your past and your continued support of the Gridiron Digest.

Thx