Two more to Web - UPDATE plus one more

[Moderator1]

Not to ESPN, so I'll give them their own thread. From The Pipeline:

William Weathers, recruiting beat writer extraordinaire and LSU women's sports beat writer, leaving The Advocate for tigerbait.com of the Rivals network.

Scott Rabalais, columnist and longtime presence covering LSU, leaving The Advocate after 19 years for a start-up Web site that is allegedly affiliated with ESPN and will focus on LSU. Phillip Marshall in Alabama just went to the same company to work for an Auburn site.

Scott's last day will be Aug. 20.

 

[Irish_Italian_Stallion]

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Two good friends of mine who will be sorely missed. The Web's gain is print's loss.

 

[Moland Spring]

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FYI...
This is the Alabama site: http://www.crimsonconfidential.com/
This is the Auburn site: http://auburnundercover.com/
A mixture of recruiting and team news -- subscription-based -- but only loosely tied to ESPN. Like how Rivals is tied to Yahoo... kinda.
The writer gets a salary and a percentage of the overall subscriptions.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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Not to ESPN, so I'll give them their own thread. From The Pipeline:

William Weathers, recruiting beat writer extraordinaire and LSU women's sports beat writer, leaving The Advocate for tigerbait.com of the Rivals network.

Scott Rabalais, columnist and longtime presence covering LSU, leaving The Advocate after 19 years for a start-up Web site that is allegedly affiliated with ESPN and will focus on LSU. Phillip Marshall in Alabama just went to the same company to work for an Auburn site.

Scott's last day will be Aug. 20.

Rabalais is great people...

 

[Sunshine Scooter]

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Both are incredible writers and reporters. The Advocate will be a much lesser paper without them.

 

[Irish_Italian_Stallion]

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Pump your brakes there Sunshine.

There are still some pretty heavy hitters left in Baton Rouge.

 

[Sunshine Scooter]

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Agreed. I didn't mean to put down anyone else on staff. Just saying that whoever replaces Rab and Will (assuming that even happens in this age) would have their work cut out for them.

 

[Pete]

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Both are great fellas. I wish them godspeed in their new roles.

 

[apseloser]

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Wow, is it getting bad. I'm a big fan of Rabalais' work. The newspaper college sports coverage in the South is going to be awful this fall.

 

[RustyHampton]

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Wow, is it getting bad. I'm a big fan of Rabalais' work. The newspaper college sports coverage in the South is going to be awful this fall.

Awful? Ouch.

 

[Moderator1]

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Yo Rusty - we have a quote function to save you some typing!

 

[Irish_Italian_Stallion]

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Rusty is a wise man.

Different doesn't mean awful. Different can also mean new blood and fresh perspective.

I have a feeling the Advocate's LSU coverage will still match up with anybody in the South.

 

[dargan]

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This is sad to hear. Enjoy reading both of these fellas.

 

[ThePrez]

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Don't expect different and fresh at The Advocate. It's not allowed.

 

[Irish_Italian_Stallion]

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If ThePrez is who I think he is, fair enough assessment. He's been there and done that.

But the climate is changing in BR and the departure of these two guys, while a blow, might force things to change for the better.

As ThePrez knows, though, only one departure will truly change things at The Advocate and that's not going to happen for a few more years and then it may require kicking and screaming.

 

[John Newsom]

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Here's a third print-to-Web move for the pipeline:

Jim Young of the Greensboro News & Record is leaving us to become editor of ACCSports.com, the coming-soon-to-the-intertubes-near-you companion to the ACC Sports Journal.

Jim will do great there. We'll miss the hell out of him.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

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Congrats to Jim, truly one of the good guys in the biz.

 

[Moderator1]

Another one from The Pipeline:

Al Tays, high reputation guy as editor and writer, is leaving the Palm Beach Post to become deputy managing editor at foxsports.com.

 

[SportySpice]

Another one from The Pipeline:

Al Tays, high reputation guy as editor and writer, is leaving the Palm Beach Post to become deputy managing editor at foxsports.com.

Great guy, too. Heard he was doing web stuff the past few months at the Post, and I think they're right in the middle of all their buyouts and layoffs. Huge, huge loss for the Post. That place is going to be a mess for a while with all the people leaving.

 

[MileHigh]

Agreed. Nice pickup for Fox.