Sander's Status

[jegbomb52]

I have not heard a lot on the status of Eric Sanders? Has anyone heard anything? Even a rumor?

[GoCats05]

I've heard through the grape vine that Sanders is very questionable. More than likely won't play, but if things go very well this week, he might play. This is just the first week without the boot. He's about to bust he wants to play so bad, but they aren't going to let him play if he isn't ready. We can beat YSU with Dexter!

[01PantherFan]

I heard day to day and may be a game time decesion

[cat_country]

I heard through the grapevine that Sanders practiced today (wednesday) and took some snaps with the first team. I'm sure it will be a game time decision. I say if he can play, play him. We can't hold anything back now.

[01PantherFan]

Any new word on Eric for today ?? I want to see him play but worry about makeing the injury worse.
Go Panthers !!

[Panthers to the Bone]

There is some talk in the 'Panthers Den' about this young man's status!

[GonzoCat]

This board is starting to become what I had hoped it wouldn't. When the supporting member thing was proposed I said I would be willing to make a contribution to support the site, but I wasn't in favor of all the rest of the proposed stuff, i.e. the "members only" forum.

Well we've only had a few days of supporting member privledges and already it has started with the secret info on that forum and the "good stuff" that only paying members are privledged to read. There has even been at least one case of a misleading thread title posted to try and lure people to pay to gain access.

Perhaps it would be best to just join the rivals network and be done with it, then we can get an annoying popup with every thread.

[jegbomb52]

If you want...

This board is starting to become what I had hoped it wouldn't. When the supporting member thing was proposed I said I would be willing to make a contribution to support the site, but I wasn't in favor of all the rest of the proposed stuff, i.e. the "members only" forum.

Well we've only had a few days of supporting member privledges and already it has started with the secret info on that forum and the "good stuff" that only paying members are privledged to read. There has even been at least one case of a misleading thread title posted to try and lure people to pay to gain access.

Perhaps it would be best to just join the rivals network and be done with it, then we can get an annoying popup with every thread.

If you want to read the "secret info" on Sander's in the Den and you are not a member such as myself, just drag your cursor over the title and you can read the whole first thread, it should tell you enough. It will pop up in a little white box.

[Matt Trump]

This board is starting to become what I had hoped it wouldn't. When the supporting member thing was proposed I said I would be willing to make a contribution to support the site, but I wasn't in favor of all the rest of the proposed stuff, i.e. the "members only" forum.

Well we've only had a few days of supporting member privledges and already it has started with the secret info on that forum and the "good stuff" that only paying members are privledged to read. There has even been at least one case of a misleading thread title posted to try and lure people to pay to gain access.

Perhaps it would be best to just join the rivals network and be done with it, then we can get an annoying popup with every thread.

This is way different than the Rivals Board. Ames Panther started this site as a fan with no intention of making a profit. He used his own money, time, knowlegde, server space, etc to make this the best college fan messageboard I have ever seen and used. Any money donate goes straight to him to keep this site going. It dosen't go to a corporation such as the Rivals network. It also does not cost a whole lot of money to be a supporting member. I'm broke as a joke and still gave a little.

Plus, the vast majority of discussion (98%) is still occurring on the main boards.

[01PantherFan]

I second that Reed, I have seen how much it costs to have something like this and its not like its 10 bucks a year !! Ames has gone above and beyond on this board !!

[AmesPanther]

Gonzo, I respect your opinion, but comparing this to a rivals site is crazy. I always make an effort to get everyones input into decisions, it's as democratic as I can make it. I've put a ton of MY time and MY money into making this site the best and having you say it's just like a Rival site is pretty insulting to me.

If you want to pickup the $1,000 in software costs and easily $10,000 of my professional programming time and $1,000 in graphic designer time and another $150/month in server costs then I will gladly take off the Supporting Members stuff.

99% of the posts are still going on in the "public" forms. The public members didn't loose anything here, BAP posted something in the Den knowing the general public and search engines aren't going to pick it up. You do realize the public posts can be read by anyone registered or not and Google indexes them often. If there were no Den BAP probably wouldn't have posted it at all. So you saying you have lost something here is BS. You now have a chance to gain something, but you didn't loose anything. No Den means that info wouldn't have been posted period.

[AmesPanther]

Oh yeah and to boot, I've had users PM me and say they are in school and can only afford $15/year or whatever number and is that ok to still become a Supporting Member. I've said it's fine everytime. I'm not trying to make some secret society for big money donors, I'm just trying to get a little of the financial burden off me and in the process get UNI some money also. If you look at the numbers it's not likely even hosting costs would get covered by these donations let alone the hard costs I incurred early on.

Look around at what other schools in the Gateway or MVC have and let me know if I'm doing UNI a dis-service with this site.

If you can't tell this is really upsetting to hear. I'm going to go back to watching football. If the countdown and football schedule don't get updated after the game today don't PM me, go get that kind of info off the Rival site.

[01PantherFan]

Ames just for my 2 cents I think you have gone long beyond the point that most would of starting to look for donations, like you said its not like its a free thing thats for sure and for you to put the time and money you have to build such a great site shows what a true Panther fan you are !! I sure dont look at it as some secret thing in the least. Like you said its just somewhere you can post something where not every person searching the web can look at it I think its a great idea and will be joining the supporting member group here very soon ( soon as payday hits ) and also I think again it shows allot of character to say well half will go to UNI if thats not a true fan and supporter I dont know what is ! Just keep up the good work, you have made the best place to talk about Panther sports there is !!

[Jonsoup]

I agree with you totally 10000% O1PANTHERFAN!

[01PantherFan]

Well all I can say is thank god Ames is capable of maintaining this site cause people wouldnt believe what you would pay a company to do this site !