Dawgvent on rivals.com?

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Anyone here subscribed to the rivals.com forum for UGA blog?? Is it worth the price to join?

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If you're gonna spend the money on a subscription go with 24/7.

It sucks, a buddy of mine works as a recruiting analyst for 24/7 and he started out at Rivals. I had a free account from fall 2004 until Jan 2011. They censor the shite out of you and it is full of Disney Dawgs. They want to lynch you when you bring up the facts and statistics of Richt's underachievements. Not worth a dime!

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They want to lynch you when you bring up the facts and statistics of Richt's underachievements.

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didn't you want him fired after 2006?

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They censor the shite out of you and it is full of Disney Dawgs. They want to lynch you when you bring up the facts and statistics of Richt's underachievements. Not worth a dime!

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Well that's not true at all. Yes, the typical poster on there leans more disney than doom. But the only posts that get edited are ones that include personal attacks or lots of F bombs (they do try to police the language). There are plenty of posters on there that don't care for richt, or seemingly don't care for anything to do with UGA at all actually, but they are still allowed to post. What kind of business model do you think it would be for people to PAY for the use of a board, then have all their posts censored? They would be bankrupt within a year.




Rivals has gone downhill once they sold and became more streamlined. Back in the day, it was awesome. From the Dawgvent's beginning until roughly 2004/2005ish, it was top notch. There was just one board under UGASports.com, called the dawgvent which was free. Any and all topics were on that board. The morning had a lot of old timers like TEE (who is still posting I think? Last I saw he had like 300,000 posts), the midday/afternoon had basically nothing but football/recruiting talk, then the 'night crew' came on and it was basically like an original version of the OT lounge. You had some damn characters on there that would just get liquor drunk and start posting, it was hilarious. Several epic Dawgvent tailgates/get togethers.

Around that time, UGAsports decided to split. They would have a new board called the Dawgvent, which was subscription only. That was for all the serious UGA sports talk. The existing/old board would remain free and be called the Dawgchat. As you can imagine, that caused a huge rift and is the reason the UGA Rivals site has gone so downhill, IMO. Of course there have been several other changes with the additions of new boards for recruiting/football/baseball/basketball/etc. But that split is when it really started to decline.

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Rivals has also taken a huge hit in the personnel department from 247. So not only has the board quality gone down, but the content quality has decreased.

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That too. Radi was with rivals then when he left everyone was bummed. Then they got Jake Rowe who was absolutely awesome, before he too left to take another job. I don't know if 247 is paying more or what, but it seems like every time uga rivals gets someone legit on staff they're gone within 2 years.