tcumaniac
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What’s crazy is that he still has the link to pressbox in his bio and labels himself the co-founder & execDisappointing he never explained himself
What’s crazy is that he still has the link to pressbox in his bio and labels himself the co-founder & execDisappointing he never explained himself
Even people that have called him out on it on Twitter don’t get any response. Dude is a huge POS imoDisappointing he never explained himself
Gil was a great sports writer. I loved many of his articles. Don’t get what happened to him though with the PressBox. Surprised he didn’t just straight up say our overhead is killing us and we have to shut it down and then moved on. I knew going in that a startup was risky and wasn’t worried about my small subscription fee. Still, wasn’t a good look for him.
Wrong.A formerly mediocre columnist who was part of the crazily overpaid old-world newspaper universe, whom TCU spent WAY too much time and effort getting close to for minimal benefit, now washed up and deserves exactly 0 attention from anybody.
Agree. I understand starting a new venture is hard. Sports writing is a very tough field these days. However, he should have at least written a final post saying the site was going to end. Just say that he fought the good fight, but PressboxDFW was not sustainable. Weird that he has just peaced out and never said anything.
Meh. Dude was still collecting auto renew for his site while on a trip to Hawaii. POS imoI called him out a few times on Twitter. He's been fairly contrite.
I agree. Bad takeWrong.
Gil being Gil, with Kelsey and others having to pipe up...
Agree if you replace "great" with "adequate homer." If he were writing on a national level, about teams or individuals in which you didn't have an emotional investment, his writing would most definitely NOT be of the, "I need to read this guy," variety. He could occasionally be pithy, or clever, or whatever. . . but he couldn't reach with binoculars the class of authors who preceded him as Fort Worth sportswriters- i.e., the old FW Press dudes. . . For that matter, he wasn't in the same class with his contemporary, Galloway.Gil was a great sports writer. I loved many of his articles. Don’t get what happened to him though with the PressBox. Surprised he didn’t just straight up say our overhead is killing us and we have to shut it down and then moved on. I knew going in that a startup was risky and wasn’t worried about my small subscription fee. Still, wasn’t a good look for him.
Gil being Gil, with Kelsey and others having to pipe up...
No but his presence is enough to make people leave.Mosely isn't strong enough to pull the trigger.
Oh, she'll be a great addition to the Surly Horns line-up!If Gary isn’t any better at UT than he’s been at TCU recently Kelsey is gonna need to learn to avoid social media. Might be a good idea to begin with.