Hello. Are you an 18-year-old child who has been fawned over by middle-aged men since before you were able to drive? Are you on the precipice of making one of the five biggest decisions of your life, choosing to spend at least the next three years at an institution that will rake in millions off your name and pay you pittance in return? Do you like seeing your big, beaming face on television?
Well, then, you might just be a recruit on the precipice of making his decision during Wednesday's national signing day for high school football players. A majority of the nation's top recruits have already picked their destinations. Wednesday will merely be signing on the dotted line with their letter of intent, making them contractually obligated to their commitment to Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, what have you.
For the stragglers, though, this will probably be the biggest day of their young lives. The NCAA's signing period lasts until April 1, but nearly every undecided player you've remotely heard of will make his decision on the first day possible. No fewer than 13 of those recruits will announce their decision live on one of the ESPN family of networks.
This, of course, is patently insane and the epitome of the toxic recruiting process.
Picking a college is one of the handful or so most important decisions of a person's life. Picking a career path, picking a mate, having a child, choosing a college. College isn't just three or four years of your life. It's a determinant that helps shape your future, where most choose that career path. Some find their future spouse, and nearly everyone experiences a massive personal growth.
My four years were spent at Penn State, and I often find myself lost in thought about what would change had I gone to any of my other choices.
Because it's still relatively fresh in my mind (I graduated college in 2012), I still remember agonizing over the decision. Touring campuses, studying pre-law programs (whoops), spending hours on end in cars with my mother.
Tour guides consistently sell potential freshmen on the best amenities rather than building an accurate representation of the campus. Lookit the nicest buildings, view the best facilities and talk to the "cool" professor who just "chills" during his office time, bro.
And keep in mind I had exactly zero college athletics prospects. I was just a dumb schlub with a decent SAT score.
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Showing posts with label process. Show all posts
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Friday, February 7, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Bleacher Report’s story-page redesign: First step in a process
B/R’s Product and Engineering team has launched a redesign that’s really just a first step in an overall improvement.
The modernized look, including share buttons at the top and a sleeker typeface, brings the desktop into line visually with the mobile version of Bleacher Report.
But the biggest improvement is behind the scenes. The update puts B/R’s desktop, tablet and mobile sites on one codebase, rather than three separate ones. Because of this, our product team can move much faster on things like speed optimizations, design changes, new features and fixes.
This increased agility will allow for more design changes and improvements in the coming months. Look for an evolution rather than periodic big redesigns.
Nothing is locked in, so let us hear your thoughts. Chris and his team will keep tweaking and improving based on metrics and feedback.
Filed under Notices Levi Nile
How about letting writers choose the awards they have displayed next to their name in their profile? A kind of drop-and-drag system that allows for a better, quicker visual grasp of a writers accomplishments? I’d love to get back the torch icon/award for my time covering the olympics.
Jeff Roy
Love the new look, but how about a formal process for bug reports? My editor is too busy herding cats to kick my discovery of technical problems up the line.
King_Kaufman
Thanks for these suggestions and questions. Keep them coming. I’m passing them along to the right people and I or someone will answer anything that needs answering here.
Jeremy Eckstein
Slideshows seem to be a problem if the writer is including more vertical photos. They are getting cropped for the standard widescreen size only.
With photos enlarged, the reader must immediately scroll past the photo to begin reading; it’s less intimate than reading with text wrapped beside the photo, and it feels like a longer read–less ideal for slideshows…
Steve
The idea looks nice, but the articles seem to be indented too far to the right and look strange since media is pushed to the left. Both should be left-aligned for consistency’s sake. Fix that, and everything will look amazing.
Andrew Bailey
I like everything about the new design, except pictures are much smaller in the live blogs now. “Full-Width” pictures are more narrow than the embedded tweets.
King_Kaufman
On this list to be fixed.
Andrew Bailey
Great! Thank you King.
TomUrtzJr
Im sad that I can’t currently embed cool infographics and charts that I had been using. I received a lot of positive feedback from readers, and it was something that helped my articles stand out in a very lively NHL section.
http://www.scardraft.com/ Scott Carasik
It definitely looks better. The AP database added is awesome too. once all of these changes are optimized, this will be great.
Garrett Jochnau
I definitely think that the super-indent adds an off-centered feel to the articles, especially since media doesn’t follow suit, though I think every other change adds a very clean feel to site.
http://jmths.wordpress.com/ dnltlk11
If it’s possible, how about altering the comment section to Disqus? I’m sure there would be database snags, but I like what Disqus does with comment sections.
Joe Bloggs
Hear hear. Disqus is a WAY better commenting system.
Garrett Baker
It looks like a couple people mentioned this already, but the only thing I really dislike is how the text is narrower and indented in so it doesn’t line up with the “full-width” pictures in the articles. I like the width of the pictures how they are, the text should just be widened to fit that again.
Willie
I’ve noticed that when you leave replies in the comment section, they do not attach to the comment they were meant for and instead become incoherant islands that make little sense.
This makes interaction with commenters practically impossible.
Could it be looked at?
Joe Bloggs
Improvements to the commenting system:
1. Move to Disqus. Way better commenting system
2. Having to click the comments button AGAIN just for sorting – a time waster
3. Lack of paragraphing make commenting challenging
4. Replies to comments which list as a separate unlinked reply
5. Hitting Left or Right cursor key while typing comments (trying to edit the comment) automatically closes the comment box and forwards to the next story. I’ve lost count of how many long edits I’ve lost because of this!
emptybagswag
For some reason, since the redesign, the comments section has not shown up for me. Anyone has that problem?
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The modernized look, including share buttons at the top and a sleeker typeface, brings the desktop into line visually with the mobile version of Bleacher Report.
But the biggest improvement is behind the scenes. The update puts B/R’s desktop, tablet and mobile sites on one codebase, rather than three separate ones. Because of this, our product team can move much faster on things like speed optimizations, design changes, new features and fixes.
This increased agility will allow for more design changes and improvements in the coming months. Look for an evolution rather than periodic big redesigns.
Nothing is locked in, so let us hear your thoughts. Chris and his team will keep tweaking and improving based on metrics and feedback.
Filed under Notices Levi Nile
How about letting writers choose the awards they have displayed next to their name in their profile? A kind of drop-and-drag system that allows for a better, quicker visual grasp of a writers accomplishments? I’d love to get back the torch icon/award for my time covering the olympics.
Jeff Roy
Love the new look, but how about a formal process for bug reports? My editor is too busy herding cats to kick my discovery of technical problems up the line.
King_Kaufman
Thanks for these suggestions and questions. Keep them coming. I’m passing them along to the right people and I or someone will answer anything that needs answering here.
Jeremy Eckstein
Slideshows seem to be a problem if the writer is including more vertical photos. They are getting cropped for the standard widescreen size only.
With photos enlarged, the reader must immediately scroll past the photo to begin reading; it’s less intimate than reading with text wrapped beside the photo, and it feels like a longer read–less ideal for slideshows…
Steve
The idea looks nice, but the articles seem to be indented too far to the right and look strange since media is pushed to the left. Both should be left-aligned for consistency’s sake. Fix that, and everything will look amazing.
Andrew Bailey
I like everything about the new design, except pictures are much smaller in the live blogs now. “Full-Width” pictures are more narrow than the embedded tweets.
King_Kaufman
On this list to be fixed.
Andrew Bailey
Great! Thank you King.
TomUrtzJr
Im sad that I can’t currently embed cool infographics and charts that I had been using. I received a lot of positive feedback from readers, and it was something that helped my articles stand out in a very lively NHL section.
http://www.scardraft.com/ Scott Carasik
It definitely looks better. The AP database added is awesome too. once all of these changes are optimized, this will be great.
Garrett Jochnau
I definitely think that the super-indent adds an off-centered feel to the articles, especially since media doesn’t follow suit, though I think every other change adds a very clean feel to site.
http://jmths.wordpress.com/ dnltlk11
If it’s possible, how about altering the comment section to Disqus? I’m sure there would be database snags, but I like what Disqus does with comment sections.
Joe Bloggs
Hear hear. Disqus is a WAY better commenting system.
Garrett Baker
It looks like a couple people mentioned this already, but the only thing I really dislike is how the text is narrower and indented in so it doesn’t line up with the “full-width” pictures in the articles. I like the width of the pictures how they are, the text should just be widened to fit that again.
Willie
I’ve noticed that when you leave replies in the comment section, they do not attach to the comment they were meant for and instead become incoherant islands that make little sense.
This makes interaction with commenters practically impossible.
Could it be looked at?
Joe Bloggs
Improvements to the commenting system:
1. Move to Disqus. Way better commenting system
2. Having to click the comments button AGAIN just for sorting – a time waster
3. Lack of paragraphing make commenting challenging
4. Replies to comments which list as a separate unlinked reply
5. Hitting Left or Right cursor key while typing comments (trying to edit the comment) automatically closes the comment box and forwards to the next story. I’ve lost count of how many long edits I’ve lost because of this!
emptybagswag
For some reason, since the redesign, the comments section has not shown up for me. Anyone has that problem?
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