Dyestat shutting down?

Maybe ESPN is spending so much money rearranging the conferences for college football in order to decide who is in their "club" of power conferences and who is out.

They do so much "conditioning" of the mind like tonight one of their radio hosts was going to tell us why Tiger Woods is ?something?.

I don't need them to tell me how to love TW and buy into the BS.

ETCETERA. I could say so much more.

How many views per day did the old dyestat get compared to say letsrun?

Agreeing to the NON-compete condition for such a paltry sum of money was the biggest mistake.

Diestat

---A very unformed thought at best--

Weldon and Robert should seize this moment and expand bring on Underwood to create a meaningful HS section add a college competition board and keep the big board exactly as today.

A little back room envelope at tracktalk.net and they could reunite Underwood to his gang -surprisingly intact as a HS/College/postcollege social group on the upstartspinoff that will out live the Mouse and Duck powered ESPNrise- thus insuring the HS area gets traffic from it's opening.

so such luck. no incentive. no reason. ridiculous suggestion. rich fan boys have been masquerading at sporting events as journalists since the 1st civilizations in kenya, 60,000 years ago.

The simplicity of Social media technoloy has destroyed one hundred thousand websites like dyestat. High school runners tweet on their own, blog on blogspot, wordpress, and facebook. Coaches and parents network on linkedin. Many more running websites are going under this year.

RCOK wrote:

Good Rick wrote:

Oh well. Tracktalk.net still operates as an extension of the old Dyestat, although it is nowhere near as popular as the old Stat was in its heyday. I completely understand why John Dye felt it was time to hang it up and sold Dyestat, but everyone knew this ESPN thing was going to be a failure from the beginning.

tracktalk.net is not an extension of the old Dyestat. It operates as a separate entity. A mirror image of the old Dyestat Message Boards, it does not come close to what the old DS MB's did, in terms of numbers or content, in its heyday.

John was planning on retiring in December, and it currently working on reopening Dyestat again.

Dye will not die. It will be back. It will be better. It will not be run by a mouse ever again!

So Bob, tell us where the dollars are going to come from to support your travel, the site infrastructure, etc. Recreating Dyestat is good in theory, but there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before it can actually be a productive site once again.

Dyestat is a site that aggregates results. New reporting, interviews, etc., have been rare the past few years. Hopefully they get back to that.

dyestat, runnerspace, etc. are no longer needed. kids tweet, take snaps and vidclips with the iPhone and use facebook on their own. kids don't need old people to serve as a useless medium to get information out to the public. parents and coaches are there to assist.

TRAACCCCCCCCCKSHARK wrote:

Come on Grote, Start it up again! Trackshark rocked!

I don't believe that Grote was linked in any way to trackshark. He was part of scheifferandgroterule.com (sp?) and tnfmedia.com.

He has already "started it up again" with grotepoll.com. He has been laying a bit low on the "new" site recently, but hopefully he will return to his usually glory as we approach cross country.

I was never a member of the dyestat forums but I always appreciated the news section of the site. It definitely went downhill after the switch to the RISE and then ESPNHS website. It would be nice if they could start it back up on the old website. But that probably won't happen and does anyone know if ESPN owns the name Dyestat and if they could even use the name?

MarathonGuide.com is reportedly closing up shop as well. Nothing lasts forever or we'd all still be driving modal T Fords.

Dyestat has evolved a great deal over the past bunch of years, going from a must-visit site to a shell of its former self. Hopefully ESPN allows John Dye and his crew to retain their URLs and push on as an independent venture. A push back to what they started as would be a good move, as the site had become incredibly watered down, with little reason to visit outside of leaderboards and links to results.

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I could not possibly agree more. A totally clueless integration of an acquisition by another incompetant media company with retards for strategists. ESPN RISE is the worst website I have ever seen. Looking forward to seeing DYESTAT again in its popular form.

MGN (Kaarme.com)

The bro's jo should buy the dyestat name for their HS boards then the kids would have their own message board for poop and compressionsock threads and leave the Letsrun message board to the more mature trolls, airplane treadmill specialists and the nuptially deprived.

this just made the Hot Now position on the Hit Parade list.

don't even waste your time wrote:

dyestat, runnerspace, etc. are no longer needed. kids tweet, take snaps and vidclips with the iPhone and use facebook on their own. kids don't need old people to serve as a useless medium to get information out to the public. parents and coaches are there to assist.

The world has has changed, but I disagree. Individual kids tweeting results and crappy video clips is completely different than what any of those sites do/did. Their role is ever changing and evolving, but there is still a need for aggregated coverage with meet info, videos, interviews, etc.. Hopefully that need still makes financial sense. We'll see how that plays out, but I haven't seen one major meet (not covered by Dyestat, RunnerSpace, or FloTrack) where it was as easy to find information in one place as one that those sites covered.

hayward102 wrote:

... We'll see how that plays out, but I haven't seen one major meet (not covered by Dyestat, RunnerSpace, or FloTrack) where it was as easy to find information in one place as one that those sites covered.

can you reword this?

Passe model. Give it up. Move on. It's over for the fanboy websites.

Sounds like the perfect time for the rebirth of CurranStat.

LetsKrong replacing LetsRun will be next.