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[sportstalkmatt]

[ayfan]

Ok now I get it. I always wondered why someone with so much to cover in Des Moines is hell bent on staying with CU and trying to cover CU from Des Moines. It's all because you want to get into the market. Well 590's not hiring and I doubt 1620 would take you so good luck with that. I'm sure your new employers in Des Moines are happy that they just gave you a job and now you are using it to leave and get back to Omaha. Good Luck with that.

Now to the topic this thread has grown into--First , Matt, the sponsors weren't yours. They were 590's who happen to sponsor a show you did on the station. As for the BB boys going to get new sponsors--good for them? From what they have said they are putting up there own money.

You act like you are the only one that can have a good relationship with CU? I have listened to their show and it sounds like they have a pretty good relationship with CU as well. Besides that should not be an issue--with any one.

Lastly I can understand that you can't allow them to promote their show, especially if rivals have rules. If you allow one then you would have to allow all --so tough break for the BB boys.

But to my last point you always make the statement-" the more CU coverage the better" ---Matt now you need to add "unless CU is covered by someone else" I don't know what the story is and frankly don't care, but you are giving an appearance of a double standard here.

[Wildjays]

Heck, I'll go ahead and put in my two cents on the topic, especially if like Matt says this site will be gone within the next 24 hours.

I might have been the one to rock the boat today when I posted a link to my blog on the new board and it got removed. And then it sounded like others had issues as well. First off, this blog is a hobby. I started it to sort of have a consolidated place for some information for myself to keep things in order since so many things were talked about on the BJC and so many topics were rehashed over and over.

In some of my interests on different topics I found some great information which I posted to my blog and then gave a link to the BJC because it might be of interest to someone else. As people found this information interesting, I decided to do more. The idea behind all of this is that Creighton doesn't get the coverage that bigger schools get and if I could help find some facts to put down rumors, then that is what I try to do.

Now Matt, don't get me wrong, you did a lot of great things for promoting Creighton Basketball on BS 590 and you are the biggest self promoter I know. However, many others did a lot to promote you too. I don't know how many mentions I made of you in my blog, linked to your podcasts and helped supplement stories for you to talk about on BS 590 with never a promotion about the location of my blog from you. However, I could dig up the stats of how many people clicked to go to the BS 590 podcasts because as much as you promoted it, people still didn't know they were there. I always thought information about the Creighton program was lacking, so I tried to pool some things together and enhance the information out there. You did the same thing with your radio coverage of the Jays. Others have provided more coverage...Yes even OWH.

So the idea of you starting a site to provide even more coverage of the Jays after your show was cut here in Omaha was brilliant. However, who knew that instead of enhancing that coverage, it has in other ways stifled the progress you made here in Omaha. Now informative stuff that was flowing free on the BJC is now hidden behind a premium message board where only the elite that can afford to subscribe to look at information that is freely out there and the "special enhanced coverage" you are going to provide is hidden behind that same curtain. I can imagine there are probably rules on the premium content as well. What is considered premium?

So what if people approach your former advertisers? Isn't that free enterprise? And if you are going to have Advertisers, then why is there a premium service needed? After all the responses and all the things going on in the first few days of the new BJC, I see this more as a dictatorship where you get to decide what is good and what isn't including throwing your partner Freddy under the bus a few times since you are fast to mention that it was he who ultimately deleted the particular threads and not you.

The original BJC was not about shutting out competition. It was about sharing all the Jays stuff that was out there. I am beginning to feel like things are being changed to let you be the only source for Bluejay information. As a member of the media, aren't you going against the rule of freedom of speech and freedom of information.

So in 24 hours when this site goes away, so does some of the history of the Bluejay program and it's fans. It is a bit sad, but I will still do my best to help provide information to fans that want to know what is going on with the Bluejay Basketball team if people want to stick with me and others that provide Bluejay information. I have family, work and other things to keep me busy and the blog is just a hobby at this point. I appreciate all the people who read my blog and I welcome them to help provide free information to true Jays fans out there.

Have fun.
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[sportstalkmatt]

[Altman'sAdvisor]

Reading this thread has made me sick to my stomach. This was a huge mistake in a lot of ways. The only good that comes out of this is that Freddy will finally get some well-deserved, and long overdue compensation for his work.

[Altman'sAdvisor]

[marquettebluejay]

[PJay]

[PJay]

[CP JAY 07]

Matt I have stayed quiet on this whole situation, I went and joined the rivals site and once it is back up I plan on giving you 10 dollars a month to hear stuff I use to hear for free on this board. But to not allow people to pimp blogs and not allowing the Banter guys to talk about their show is just plain stupid. Matt the reason people are so pissed off about this is your splitting up a family, I don't wanna get all wishy washy here but this place was sort of a family to me and to a lot of people. Hell I remember driving to Carbondale this year and checking the cafe on our phones every hour, I remember sitting in a hotel room in Carbondale with three different laptops and all three had the cafe on and people were posting about the trip. I remember in Carbondale two years ago when I was in the bathroom I met KenoshaJay, he actually asked if any of us posted on the cafe and I introduced myself as CP Jay. I remember meeting Juantag for the first time and some other members of the board on that trip.

Its not the same over at the new place, I went over there the other day and all the pics on the site are Fusker pics, I have never heard of half the posters and half of them have the word husker in the name. Most of the guys had to change the name, and some didn't come over.

Matt I guess I just wish there was a way to give the Jays more coverage but keep this site. I will miss this place a lot. I probably checked it 10 times a day and when I wake up tomorrow it will be gone, its kind of sad. Goodbye Cafe.

[kvandy]

I am not suprised at all by Matt's dictatorship on the new site. He is after all a Democrat after all. I've never heard of Democrats stifling free speech have you? The worst part about the new site is we won't be able to poke fun at matt anymore because he will just delete it instead of making some lame excuse. I always loved watching him get take jokes wrong and get all defensive. Maybe we can refer to him as Bluejay Obama just as he makes clever names for all the people he doesn't like. See ya on the free board.

[coopjay]

Matt, I'm one of your biggest fans, and still miss your show.

That said, this is stupid. I don't know what your issue is with Bluejay Banter, but these guys are doing a great job in promoting the program. Heck, they've gone out of their way to promote the website, and probably would have done the same for your site, free of charge, with their "cookin' at the Cafe" segment.

Instead, you've pulled this silly double standard and won't allow them to do what you did on the Husker site. You know, it's obviously not that effective, considering that it didn't exactly pull your show into a ratings position that allowed you to keep your job.

I wish you great success in Des Moines, but with this attitude, I fear you will see similar results. Maybe your plan is all along to come back to Omaha, as you allude. What are you going to do? Buy airtime on your old station?

[sportstalkmatt]

[Altman'sAdvisor]

[coopjay]