For those of you who haven’t yet read about the recent hire at Concordia (Wis.), let me summarize.

The parentheses are important.

Wayne Rasumussen is returning to Concordia (Wis.).
He previously coached at Concordia (Wis.) for nine seasons.
His first college coaching job was as head coach at Concordia (Neb.) from 1980-83.
After two years as an assistant at Wisconsin Lutheran, he coached at Concordia-Austin.
He got his bachelor’s degree from Concordia (Fort Wayne, Ind.) in 1960. By the way, I think this is a new school to me.
He earned his master’s from Concordia (Ill.) in 1967.

I just hope he can keep it all straight.

And to the Concordias in Moorhead, Minn., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Bronxville, N.Y., if you ever need a coach, look up Wayne Rasmussen.

As one might expect, the retirement of Jack Bennett drew a lot of notice in the state media. Here’s some selected links to consider, all from the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.

Bob Semling ready for the challenge
Jack Bennett “had nothing left to prove”
Players suspected change was near
And Bennett bows out at Stevens Point, the Wisconsin State Journal

As you might have observed, over the past year both D3hoops.com and D3football.com have suffered occasional slowdowns, times at which one site or the other would move at a crawl because of high traffic.

We attempted to alleviate that in February by moving Posting Up onto a separate server within the same host. While that worked, it was only a temporary measure — we have more planned.

Unfortunately, our message board software itself, which we have been using since Posting Up opened in November 1998, is part of the problem. Although we love Discus because it was written by programmers associated with Hope College, we have outgrown it and it can not support a site of our size.

To this end, we’re changing message board software. We’re also combining Posting Up with Post Patterns, and we’re putting the combined message board on a separate server. We believe this will make both D3hoops.com and D3football.com run more smoothly all year.

The new board will also have more modern features, the types of things you’re used to if you use forums on other sites. Your username and password will carry over to the new site and we’ll transfer the posts. To this end, we’re temporarily shutting down new user registration effective immediately, and will shut down the entire board sometime on Saturday evening before the transfer. When all is complete we’ll put up the new link.

If you are registered for both Posting Up and Post Patterns, we are attempting to determine that now so we can combine them into one account, with one post total. We’ll attempt to use your password from Post Patterns, since that sport is more active at the moment.