UMBC Sports Blog: September 2008 – December 2011

As the saying goes: all good things must come to an end. A few weeks ago I announced that this website would be ending when the fall season was over and when the volleyball team season ended on Friday, this end was very near.

As you probably know in 2008 I started this website as a free wordpress blog. I did it for many reasons, to get more experience writing and to give UMBC athletics more coverage that I was not able to provide otherwise. This website has taken up most of my free time every since; instead of going out to clubs or parties with my fellow college classmates, I was spending my weekends at games writing up game stories and I would do it all over again if I had the choice.

Sports Journalism and UMBC athletics are two things I think about all the time, they’ve been what have consumed my life for the past four years; they are the things I enjoy and I never made or expected to make any money off the site either. The two ads I had on here for a little while didn’t even fully cover my costs.

The thing that surprised me though was how big this website got; especially considering UMBC barely has over 10,000 undergraduate students. But you guys flocked to this website and I got more views every single week, prompting me to make a big move by buying an official domain name, making it a much more interesting looking website and doing much more interesting things to give more coverage.

Every month this website was up the views increased and it’s actually a bit disappointing I have to end it now after November had over 25-percent more views that I ever had in a give month. But it’s time for me to move on, invest my time in other things. After my graduation coming in December, where I will be crossing the podium with a triple major in American Studies, English and Media and Communications Studies, I’m not going to be able to invest as much time as I would like to in this website as I’m going to be searching for that career in sports journalism and I refuse to do something I don’t think will be done well. So instead of just having this website dwindle down to barely giving sports coverage I think its best that I end on a high note, right now.

So once again everybody, I want to thank you all. I want to thank ever single person who ever stumbled upon my website and read something and I especially want to thank those diehard followers I had, you were the real reason I continued this website for as long as I did. I’ll still be around so you’ll probably still see me and I hope you all keep following my work throughout the years (just google my name you’ll find it), it’s been a blast. Go Retrievers!

Corey Johns