statewide prep sports positions

Wow. Is this a game story or a piece of commentary...

 

It's a piece of crappentary. That's what I say!

(Oh, yeah! My first SportsJournalists.com diss post.)

 

so, with the Oct. 1 due date for the opening of the purse strings come along, anyone been contacted to sign up?

 

Drakes, I was just told by my state coordinator that things should come into place next week. Of course, this site seems to be on "Wait until next week" mode with the writers for about three months now, so, while I am keeping an ear to the track, I'm certainly not counting on much.

Brian McDowell

 

Yeah I second that. I'm not at all shocked that we haven't heard anything. At this point, I doubt any of us ever will. I consider the book on this gig to be closed.

 

An Update:
Heard from my state coordinator today. Apparently, Coaches Aid is not hiring any writers onto their full time staff. All writers are working as freelancers. 40 bucks a story.
I'm not bitching too much. I'll take it. That's what I'm getting from the local paper for preps freelancing and seems like this website will offer a little more steady work than they will. Still, not very encouraging or surprising.

 

Yeah $40 a pop isn't bad. Competitive with a lot of papers.

Just too bad that it keeps going further downhill with this all the time. At first they advertised 25-30-hour per week writing jobs.

 

I think we can officially lock this one ... or move it to the freelance board.

 

So does this mean, even the state coordinators are bumped down to freelance status?

 

Hank; I was just talking about writing jobs. The coordinators are still coordinators, from what I can tell. But the writers are freelancers. Sorry for any confusion.

 

One of my buddy's who hired in as a state coordinator confirmed this. He said the plan right now is for the state coordinators to find a steady stream of freelancers in their state and basically the coordinator will be the editor so to speak of said state.
He said once the get everything going like they want, the stream of freelance could be 1-2 stories per week, maybe more. It would probably depend on what is going on in the said state. But the state coordinators are salary employed, not freelance.
He really didn't know when they would be allowed to start hiring freelance writers, however. Sorry I don't have anymore info.

 

Seeing as how the *original* ad specified full-time content coordinators/state managers and the like, it seems like they are pretty much filled up on those.

Now, I know the thread has morphed in a slightly different direction, but I am also pretty certain that the jobs many folks are inquiring/commenting/bitching about now are and always were supposed to be PT/freelance gigs.

Just my $0.02. But what do I know?

rb