If there was one thing you could change about PN...

[Panthers to the Bone]

If there was one thing you could change about PN, what would it be?

It could even be something you would like to see PN do.

I'm looking for some constructive feedback.

[alleycat]

-Scrolling score updates for all Valley/Gateway teams.
-An updated home page. Need the baseball schedule and or updated football schedule.

[UNI MadCat]

Make it easier to find the "Forums" section of this site, which is the heart and soul of this board. Honestly, I've directed more than a handful of people to "Panthernation.com" only to have them tell me later that they couldn't figure out where to post.

I understand that everyone should just see "Forums" and right away know to head there, but in truth, they don't. These aren't stupid people that I'm talking about either. I think if there was a HUGE place to click on the front of PN that said, "This way to Message Boards" (I would make it the size of the "PSC" thing and put it right above or below it) people would figure it out easier. I'll admit that for over a year I couldn't immediatley figure out what this site was, so I walked away. On the net, you have less than 5 seconds to catch people's attention.

[Newsbreaker]

Some sort of scoreboard feature, with scores and standings would be nice.

I'm not sure how much traffic it would get, but possibly some sort of written features. Ames has made it clear the primary objective here is not profit, so I'm certain no payment could be offered, but perhaps some of the 'regulars' would contribute something for nothing more then the satisfaction of creating something.

Ideas include: An "Around the Valley/Around the Gateway" feature, highlighting teams and people around the league. Stories on UNI teams, profiles of upcoming games/events, even general interest stuff on the University and Community.

Just random thoughts. I'm wacked on Excedrine, so there's no telling what I'm about to say.

[Bier Guy '99]

It would eat bandwidth in a major way but if it was done right, streaming video of panther highlights. I was thinking something along the lines of what that one Iowa fan site, ScotHawk, does.

http://www.scothawk.com

Of course, there would probably be some red tape to cut through to be able to show some of it... Maybe it would be for supporting members only section... Anybody know someone really good with a Media100 or FinalCut Studio?

Also, maybe get Podcasts of that new 30 minute UNI centered sports program I keep reading so much about. That might be cool. Again, a bandwidth and server space killer...

[Marc Wigim]

I like the scoreboard idea the best personally. I'm not sure how much bandwidth it'd take, but it would be convenient.

[AmesPanther]

We actually had the scoreboard feature for proabably a year or more. I got a lot of comments that people didn't like it because it didn't have up to date scores for the Gateway and Valley like it did for the BCS schools. So I took it down. I'm not sure of a good datasource for scores. The old one used CBS Sportsline.

[Jonsoup]

Try ESPN or Fox Sports.