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[MarkRedman]

In the early 90s, I paid a subscription for Big East Briefs - a recruiting newsletter mailed every month to subscribers.

I freaking loved Big East Briefs because it would tell me info I couldn't get anywhere else - how Brian Mahoney was scouting a small forward in Georgia named Lavor Postell or how CTK had this freshman named Lamar Odom who was already being recruited by Big East blue bloods.

I forgot how much I paid for it, but it was a lot of money for someone still in school and working menial summer jobs.  

Big East Briefs was worth it until..... Redmen.com came along. Cue dramatic music.

And then I found I could get recruiting news from insiders almost every day of the year. It was faster. It was more fun. But most of all, it was FREE. I never renewed my subscription to Big East Briefs.

I don't know what happened to it, who ran it or what their financial situation was. But I can't help but think there were plenty of subscribers like me that migrated to the internet and left Big East Briefs to wither away. 



Main Man, I, too, was a subscriber to Big East Briefs and thought they did a great job. I also used to subscribe to the Prep Stars Handbook, which was a really good college basketball magazine that covered recruiting nationwide. While I really enjoyed these publications, the internet made them obsolete. Nowadays, we are able to get information as soon as it happens.
 

 

[MainMan]

Personally, I'm very happy with the SJU basketball coverage I get through redmen.com and the free media. If the Johnnies win consistently and I'm confident they will, I'm pretty sure they'll get plenty of coverage in the sports section of the NY Post available to all online. 

The NY Post will cease to exist when Rupert Murdoch exits this world.
 
It bleeds money and is heavily subsidized by New Corps' profitable ventures.

The Post was Rupert's first venture in the U.S. It helped launch an outsider into the top echelons of the U.S. media. The man has a huge soft spot for it. It's his vanity asset. 

It would have closed a long time ago if not for the chairman. 

 

[Red.Fans]

In the early 90s, I paid a subscription for Big East Briefs - a recruiting newsletter mailed every month to subscribers.

I freaking loved Big East Briefs because it would tell me info I couldn't get anywhere else - how Brian Mahoney was scouting a small forward in Georgia named Lavor Postell or how CTK had this freshman named Lamar Odom who was already being recruited by Big East blue bloods.

I forgot how much I paid for it, but it was a lot of money for someone still in school and working menial summer jobs.  

Big East Briefs was worth it until..... Redmen.com came along. Cue dramatic music.

And then I found I could get recruiting news from insiders almost every day of the year. It was faster. It was more fun. But most of all, it was FREE. I never renewed my subscription to Big East Briefs.

I don't know what happened to it, who ran it or what their financial situation was. But I can't help but think there were plenty of subscribers like me that migrated to the internet and left Big East Briefs to wither away. 
 

Greg Shemitz, a SJU grad, ran the legendary Big East Briefs.   He is a really good guy and I touched base with him a couple of years ago.  He still does photo journalism but nothing basketball related.  He migrated BEB over to one of the sports networks but then eventually gave up on it.  I'd hate to think redmen.com had anything to do with its demise.  We even ran a BEB promotion on the site which I setup for him at no charge.  News and Publishing in general did multiple, major paradigm shifts in the 90s/2000s.
 

 

[fuchsia]

Paul, Redmen.com also opens niche publication doors, titles like

• Lobster Roll Fetishes Quarterly Review
• Why I love My IPA and other Paraphilia Report
• Behavior Therapy Approaches with Yankee Fans 

and many, many others.

 

[mjmaherjr]

Trade publications have been pretty good at withering the internet storm.

I'm talking about real niche pubs that cover a certain business, or segment of a business, or a segment of a segment of a business. No one would really read this stuff unless you're tied to that business somehow. Some real-life titles are "Air Cargo World" or "Corrosion Management News" or "Apartment Finance Today"

There are a few that still have zero online presence and just churn out newsletters that folks in their industry pay a pretty decent price for.

It's exclusive content that you can't get anywhere else. That's where the value is these days. Not impossible, but very hard to do that with sports. 


 

I subscribed to Corrosion Management News ! Had lots of timely St John’s basketball news. Finally stopped paying for it when CMA got hired