… D3football.com opened. I’m sure I’ve told this story before but I can’t find it, so I’m repeating it, here on 7-7-07.
This was kind of a risk for us to take in 1999. We — the Division III Basketball Online inner circle of myself, Ray Martel and Jim Stout — had a very successful and well-received men’s and women’s basketball site. But there was a Division III Football Online out there already, and we were kinda pushing into their territory. We’d tried to acquire that site, like we’d acquired the basketball site two years earlier, but it wasn’t for sale.
So we started our own, trying to collect football info as much under the radar as possible, though people eventually put two and two together. And on July 7, a Wednesday, we opened the virtual doors on both this site and the renamed D3hoops.com.
And 21.7 million front page views later, here we are. Since then, we’ve been working in two separate worlds, in a sense, and three with the opening of D3baseball.com this winter. But we’re working on that, in making all three sites more unified, in a way that will open the doors of the D3sports.com family to even more coverage and sharing of resources.
Our 2007 preseason coverage will begin in a matter of days. If you’ve taken the long offseason off, welcome back!
Happy Birthday D3football.com. and many more to come. As always top notch reporting and insight. Coverage all over the map and especially for your hobby/part time job….wink….wink.
Keep up the great work.
Happy b-day D3.com!! I discovered you just a few years ago, but have been very pleased with the site. I had previously thought I was some sort of D-3 “geek” that was quite alone in my zeal to follow small college football. Now, through D-3.com, I find there are others of my ilk. Sort of like group therapy, I guess. I am quite in awe at times at the knowledge out there. After returning from Geneva, NY on Saturday afternoons in the Fall, I can’t wait to check out comments that are usually quite insightful and interesting. The comments with less insight are usually at least entertaining! Keep up the good work! Go Hobart!!!!!
What the heck happened to the blog?
Did I miss that agenda item at the meeting?
Part of the whole “unifying-the-sites’-designs” thing.
Happy Birthday D3 Football…..You have become part of my life te last 5 years and it has been a lot of fun. A real classy site that spews out information daily…Keep up the great work….
New layout looks good. When will you start allowing registation for 2007 Kickoff. Can’t wait to read, wish we didn’t have to wait till August. Hopefully the temp. will be 30 degrees cooler in Sept.
Congrats and Happy 8th Birthday! You guys are the best and your hard work is greatly appreciated! Proves that, “if you build it……….they will come!”
Happy Birthday and great job. Being new to d3 as of last year I had no idea what a big world d3 is. I personally appreciate the info you provide on a constant basis.