UMass Football Blog One Year old today

One year ago on May 5, 2005 I posted my first entry on my UMass football Blog.

I started the blog because I loved UMass Football and there never seemed to be much press coverage of the program. I had over thirty years of UMass game programs and press guides. It seemed as if I could find enough material to have a fairly active blog. Figured I'd continue until I ran out of material or it wasn't fun anymore.

Well, that was 526 posts (counting today) ago. According to Sitemeter, the UMass Football fanzone has recorded:

• over 10,000 hits
• over 23,000 page views.

Technorati tracks over 19,400,000 blogs. The UMass Football Blog is ranked #1,040,549 (top 10% give or take a little). According to their stats, 45% of all blogs fold in three months and only 11% are updated weekly or more.

The UMass Football Blog is still one of only 10 or less blogs covering a I-AA football team. It might be one of 5 or less. There is no Delaware Blog. There is no Montana Blog. I find this fairly surprising...

Still having fun covering UMass football. Looks like the UMass Football Blog will be active for a 2nd year. I have tons of UMass historical material I havn't had time to publish yet. Still getting a kick out of blogging.

Go UMass! And thanks dear readers for visiting my blog.