Hey guys, what's with the Flo bashing here, on HR and elsewhere?
Some history about myself. Born and raised in WPIAL, three sport athelite, started wrestling in 5th grade with my brothers, and for the most part pretty much sucked the older I got. I even went to a PSU summer wrestling camp decades ago. I Played baseball in college, so I know a small amount about competing at the next level, but lost my passion there for watching the pros when they went on strike. The NFL is doing it's very best to lose me as well.
College wrestling remains a rare unspoiled place where I can sit back and watch the artestry of a Jason Nolf performane in awe. It's truly awesome. I love folkstyle in particular. I stayed on the sidelines in BWI for about 5 years before jumping in a few years back. Despite the passion for the sport, it remains pretty much a hobby, and I try to keep it in that perspective.
Now back to Flo. I begrudgenly poney up the $150/yr and wonder if/when they jack it up to $200 if I'll bail.
I am a loyal listener to Floradio eagerly awaiting every Tuesday and Thursday. I think it is awesome Flo has invested in that team of guys as each brings his own perspective, and it is fun to see there is much they don't agree on either, with at least one argument of some sort each show.
The Flo guys were all probably much more accomplished wrestlers than the rest of us, their level of knowledge blows doors on the entire BWI collective combined. Despite how passionate and comitted we are as fans, as Bo would say re: Flo 'its what they do'. We are all here for fun, but this is how they earn a living.
These guys 24x7x365 eat, drink, and sleep wrestling and they are very very good at what they do. My biggest complaint is that they don't commit 30 minutes if every show to PSU, and that they keep too many secrets and hold back on rumors, which in the end reveals their journalistic integrity.
So yes, Flo is a business and has to keep an eye on revenue and all businesses survive on revenue growth which can put us all off when it affects us directly. I hope they grow revenue through more subscriptions rather than price increases.
Back to the Flo team. When you get 4 or more guys taking and writing about anything you will get a spectrum of content that elates, educates, entertaines, provokes and pisses off. At the end of the day we are all richer for it.
Any concerns aside they provide far and away the best wrestling product out there. As more and more PSU GOATs graduate, Flo is going to be our conduit into freestyle even some MMA and the best way to remain connected to the kids/men we have invested so much. Where would we be without Flo? Probably relegated to this board alone - yikes!
I was going to start out proclaiming ''I am no Flo homer" but the more I think about it, I just might be.
Now, while I wait for Sunday's match, I think I will jump out onto Flo and watch a half dozen of my favorite Jason Nolf symphonies.
Some history about myself. Born and raised in WPIAL, three sport athelite, started wrestling in 5th grade with my brothers, and for the most part pretty much sucked the older I got. I even went to a PSU summer wrestling camp decades ago. I Played baseball in college, so I know a small amount about competing at the next level, but lost my passion there for watching the pros when they went on strike. The NFL is doing it's very best to lose me as well.
College wrestling remains a rare unspoiled place where I can sit back and watch the artestry of a Jason Nolf performane in awe. It's truly awesome. I love folkstyle in particular. I stayed on the sidelines in BWI for about 5 years before jumping in a few years back. Despite the passion for the sport, it remains pretty much a hobby, and I try to keep it in that perspective.
Now back to Flo. I begrudgenly poney up the $150/yr and wonder if/when they jack it up to $200 if I'll bail.
I am a loyal listener to Floradio eagerly awaiting every Tuesday and Thursday. I think it is awesome Flo has invested in that team of guys as each brings his own perspective, and it is fun to see there is much they don't agree on either, with at least one argument of some sort each show.
The Flo guys were all probably much more accomplished wrestlers than the rest of us, their level of knowledge blows doors on the entire BWI collective combined. Despite how passionate and comitted we are as fans, as Bo would say re: Flo 'its what they do'. We are all here for fun, but this is how they earn a living.
These guys 24x7x365 eat, drink, and sleep wrestling and they are very very good at what they do. My biggest complaint is that they don't commit 30 minutes if every show to PSU, and that they keep too many secrets and hold back on rumors, which in the end reveals their journalistic integrity.
So yes, Flo is a business and has to keep an eye on revenue and all businesses survive on revenue growth which can put us all off when it affects us directly. I hope they grow revenue through more subscriptions rather than price increases.
Back to the Flo team. When you get 4 or more guys taking and writing about anything you will get a spectrum of content that elates, educates, entertaines, provokes and pisses off. At the end of the day we are all richer for it.
Any concerns aside they provide far and away the best wrestling product out there. As more and more PSU GOATs graduate, Flo is going to be our conduit into freestyle even some MMA and the best way to remain connected to the kids/men we have invested so much. Where would we be without Flo? Probably relegated to this board alone - yikes!
I was going to start out proclaiming ''I am no Flo homer" but the more I think about it, I just might be.
Now, while I wait for Sunday's match, I think I will jump out onto Flo and watch a half dozen of my favorite Jason Nolf symphonies.
