Well everyone, as we wind down another great year of DIII Tennis, I wanted to reach out to all of you regarding the future of the blog. I think this year went really well, but as always, there is room to improve! Here’s your chance to provide some input for us in terms of the blog. Let us know anything and everything that falls in the following categories, or make your own if you want to!
1) Constructive Feedback for the blog – anything from writing styles, types of articles, etc
2) Suggestion Articles – anything that you would have loved to see that we can explore for next year?
3) Praise! – What did we do well this year?
4) Twitter Presence – any feedback regarding our twitters. Too many tweets, too much commentary, etc, etc? Anything else you’d like to see?
5) The Site – we’re not site masters, so let us know if you think you can improve the site!
6) Misc. – Anything that came to you during the year and you wanted to let us know but were scared to.
Feel free to also email me at d3atlanticsouth@gmail.com if you have suggestions you’d like to keep private. Thanks to all of you for a great year, and we still have 5 great days to go!
We think your blog is incredible and thoroughly enjoy reading all the posts. We really appreciate it! Thanks!
Thanks all for the feedback!! Keep them coming, I’m compiling lists of all the comments and emails I’ve been receiving and we will hopefully continue to incorporate things into the blog for next year!
I think your blog is great. Each team has a story and my sense is you do a great job identifying and bringing it to light within the context of the team as well as each team’s competitive environment. You can’t possibly cover all topics, and there will be a natural bias of attention to the most successful teams. Getting Ballou to tweet was a great. Congratulations!!
Make LoveD3Tennis the fifth blogger. C’mon, the guy obviously needs a full time job.
I hate you
Twitter: I don’t think you all need to retweet each other so much. I’m sure most everyone follows all four of the accounts, so it’s probably unnecessary. But in terms of the actual tweets, it’s great.
Suggestions:
-More Coach or Player interviews.
-Also, articles about what you all think is the best way to spend practice time (live ball drilling, fed-ball drills, match play, fitness, etc). I only know how our team runs practice, so it’d be interesting to get an idea about what other teams do/what you guys think is the most productive.
-I thought you all did a solid job of giving mentions to the lower tier teams when they deserved it, especially considering there are so many teams to keep track of. With that said, I know that a lot of readers are from across the D3 landscape, so I’d say continuing to incorporate as many teams as possible into the blog would only help to expand it’s popularity
Praise: The blog is awesome. It’s a lot of fun to read about something we’re all a part of. You guys clearly put a lot of effort into it and it really shows, so for that a big thank you.
All good, absolutely a great service you provide, who are you guys? I have one son who is a freshman who plays and he does well and his team does well and I could complain that hey you don’t cover him or them enough but so could plenty of others I am sure. It makes total sense you provide more coverage for the teams that win the most. One article I would like to see is some analysis of the difficulty for recruiting between D3 schools based on their academic requirements. It seems to me that is a tricky issue, on one hand some schools have an easier time with less stringent requirements but on the other hand the best players also seem to want to go to the schools with the best academic reputation. Anyway, great service, thanks.
First of all, each of the bloggers has done an outstanding job this year. Writing for this blog must be a real challenge because the players you analyze also happen to comprise your primary readership. Yet, the bloggers always manage to issue fair critiques/close analysis while also remaining sensitive to the players’ feelings–no easy task.
In reference to the comment above, I think an article addressing academic requirements would do more harm than good. Academic prestige is such an amorphous area that there’s no way of accurately measuring it, and the article could easily lead to a war in the comments section.
Again, terrific job with the blog this year, and special thanks to D3AS for all of his managerial efforts.